Welcome To The Ghetto Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Em][D]
[Em]Welc[D]ome to the ghetto
[Em][D][C][D]
[Em][G][C][D]

[Verse 2]
Livin' [Em]day by [D]day in my
hood on the spot
See the same old things:same dope
[Em]fiends cops
[G]Just an average day [C]in the
[D]streets of California
5- 0 find a young girl dead
[Em]around the [D]corner
Mommies on her knees she had
tears in her eyes
And nobody knew why the
[Em]young [G]girl had [C]to die
[D]People look ash[Em]amed it's been
[D]life this fo' yea[Em]rs
Bloody [G]sheets [D]on her body face
wet [Em]from her [D]mama's tears
She couldn'ta been over 4- 5
And if mommy wasn't based she
[Em]would still [G]be alive
But now the street [D]is a place
you could be swallowed by death
Brothas [Em]takin' each[D]
[C]oth[G]er's liv[D]es
[Em]And [G]goin' to REST IN P[C]EACE
[D]I wonder if heaven got[Em] a g[D]hett[C]o
[D]My cou[G]sin die[D]d last year
[Em]And I still [G]can't [C]let [D]go
I [Em]walk the [D]streets o[C]f m[D]y city
of [Em]my ne[G]ighborhood
Seein' dope [C]fiends [Em]livin'
[D]off[Em] can [D]goods
[C]15 nig[D]gas on the corner
And niggas [Em]die y[G]oung
[C]in California[D]
5- 0 'll get a dope case
[Em]and [D]flaunt i[C]t
Have your [D]ass on
"America's Most Wanted"
But I don't slang or either [Em]gang- bang
[G]And though my [C]old[G] school
[D]homies do the same [Em]thang
I still [D]got love 'cause you gotta live
So you can give
And raise a family G
But you gotta do your best
slangin D- O- P- E
So keep a [Em]grip [G]on yourself
and stay [D]mellow
And welcome [Em]to the [D]ghetto
[C](welcome hard up with [D]it to
my life) ??
[Chorus: x4] Welcome to the [Em]ghetto[G]

[Verse 3]
(welcome hard up with
it to my life)
From across the [D]seas

[Verse 4]
comes cocaine
But [Em]you never seen a black
[D]man fly the plane
[C]Look at the news:a young black death
[G]Was [D]it drug related,take a gue[Em]ss
I flash [G]when I look in the mirror black
Cause my [D]re flection is
a 9 millimeter Gat
[Em]I think about [D]genocide
And have thoughts of my homies
who died
Everybody back stabbin
[Em]But I [G]ain't the one to talk
I'm [C]into gafflin'
[Em]Death [D]gives a shit about your color
[Em]But yet I [D]see mo dead
young brothas
I'm goin' crazy out here
Seein' 24 brothas die by
the end of the year
And I still gotta deal with the 5- 0
And I stopped [Em]sellin' dope in [G]9- 0
But if [D]I came to it
I probably still do it
Put a [Em]Nine [D]in my draws
[C]get straight to it
[Em]I hope that [D]I never see the day
That I get 20 years for a cake
[Em]B- K- A as a key[G]
So open up the [D]door for the mo money
But I ain't [Em]gotta [D]do that G
Cause I'm down with the F- A to the
see to the you to the L- T- why
G- nut X- tra [Em]Large [G]and S- P- I- see-
E [D]make niggas feel like [Em]jello[D]
And welcome to the [Em]ghetto[G]
(Welcome hard up with it to
[D]my life)
[Chorus: x4]
[Repeat: x7] Welcome [Em]to the[D]

[Verse 5]
[C]
[D]ghe[Em]tto[G]
[D][Em]