THE GHETTO I$ NOT WHOM I BEEEEE !!!!!

In the Ghetto there was never any fucken window of hope

You either survived the bullshit

Or you were an unlucky bastard born addicted to dope

I cried many days

Looking outside of my blurry windows

Couldn't see clearly there were window bars protecting me

I was a hostage in my own home I thought

Until my window was shot out

I never questioned nothing but I felt something

I new I was a victim but we had nothing

I could see the rain come down

More clearly we had know window

I had know father around to protect me from

The people I was around

The Ghetto is a unforgiving place if you are brown

Light skinned or just not from that part of town

Too many drug addicted mutha fuckas

Too many hopeless mothers

Too many men that are Gay like my only brother

There is only one way out the Ghetto

You must be a bad mutha fucka to stay here in be humble

You must care enough to survive or die in the jungle

I was mentally prepared at in early age to survive a storm at sea

So growing up in the Ghetto never affected me

Even though I had no daddy around I had me

In my mother

I knew she was always there but did she care I couldn't swim

I use to watch other kids diving off the rim at the neighbor hood gym

I wanted to be like them but I was him

Traumatized

From the reoccurring dream I died swimming

As I looked from the outside of the fence trembling with fear

Wanting to be like other kids if only I had a dad whom taught me to swim

I would probably swim with the fish if I knew how to fish

I grew up in the Ghetto you did your best

I day dreamed a lot hoping one day I would be rich enough

To help other people that wasn't

All of this was a dream of course have to think logically right

The only thing that is real is my visions

I could never see life any other way then how I was raised to

I see children every day playing

Smiling, laughing, crying

Home is home to many of them like it was for me

I was born in the Ghetto but the Ghetto is not whom I be

I survived my whole life free

I don't owe or am I do in explanation

Each of us deserve to be happy

We all have had some type of disappointments in our lives

But we were born free first

I was born in the Ghetto but the Ghetto is not whom I beeeee