Ft. Alicia Keys & Akon      Intro: Alicia Keys] (Baby Cham)   Here's my, ghetto story (*Story)   Been in hell through the fire, now, gonna take it higher (This a survival story, true ghetto story)      [Verse 1: Akon]   See I was born poor like many men and didn't have nothin   Came to America try to make somethin out of somethin   You see we Africans we love huntin   Found my way up to the top like it wasn't nothin   And hooked up with some Puerto Ricans up in Jersey   We used to be called the Baldwin posse   Had it locked we zoned it up to Union City   And a couple of projects in NYC      [Verse 2: Baby Cham]   I remember those days when Hell was my home   When Me and Mama bed was a big piece a foam   An mi never like bathe and my hair never comb   When Mama gone a work me go street go roam   I remember when Danny dem tek me snow cone   An mek him likkle bredda dem kick up Jerome   I remember when we visit dem wid pure big stone   An the boy Danny pop out something weh full chrome      [Verse 3: Akon]   But cats know better than to play around me   And knew I kept the AK displayed around me   And I moved down to the A to find more cheese   And I found out cars make more than we      [Verse 4: Baby Cham]   I remember when we run, Fatta get him knee blown   An mi best friend Richie get, two inna him dome   I remember so the avenue tun inna warzone   An ,Mickey madda fly him out, cau she get a loan   But, Mickey go to foreign and go tun Al Capone   Mek whole heap a money and sen in our own   Now a we a lock the city and, that is well known   Yesterday Mickey call me pan mi phone   Mi say Mickey.....      [Chorus: Baby Cham]   We get di ting dem   Dem outta luck now   Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem a duck now   We have whole heap a extra clip cau we nuh bruk now   Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah      [Alicia Keys] (Baby Cham)   We got the kingdom so we have to make way   We take it from the bottom to the top baby   And now the whole community can live greatly   (Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah)      [Verse 5: Alicia Keys] (Baby Cham)   I remember those days when, we was dead broke   And, I could barely find a, dollar for a token   Hop in the train just to get where I'm goin   Po Po's after me I'm runnin like I'm smokin   Remember those days when I went to bed hungry   All I ever ate was white rice and honey   Big dreams in my head empty my tummy   Might crack a smile but ain't nothin funny   I remember playin over needles in the street   Everywhere I go and there was some part of me   Thirteen thirteen was, hookers and hoes   On 11th avenue sellin bodies for dope (Whoa)   Remember cryin sayin that will never be me   Gonna make it someday gotta be somebody   Say, mommy don't worry it's just you and me   But, one day we will get out of this misery (Hey!)      [Chorus: Baby Cham]   We get di ting dem   Dem outta luck now   Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem a duck now   We have whole heap a extra clip cau we nuh bruk now   Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah      [Alicia Keys] (Baby Cham)   We got the kingdom so we have to make way   We take it from the bottom to the top baby   And now the whole community can live greatly   (Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah)      [Verse 6: Baby Cham]   I remember bout '80, Jamaica explode   When a Trinity and Tony Hewitt dem a run road   That a long before Laing dem and even Bigga Ford   When Adams dem a Corporal nuh know the road code   I remember when we rob the chiney shop down the road   An rumour have it sey the chiney man have a sword   But we did have a one pop wey make outta board   So you know the next day mama pot Overlooaad      [Verse 6: Akon]   How could that be? Chop shops in the city call me the ring lead   Never thought I flee, some how the Po' Po' still caught up with me   But then I got locked up, then while I was boxed up   Focused on locked up, then they let me out but   Two years later my brother Screw got shot up   And got the whole block royal like now what      [Verse 7: Baby Cham]   Jamaica get screw, tru greed an glutton   Politics manipulate and press yutes button   But we rich now ,so dem caan tell man notin   Cuz a we a mek Mama a nyaam Fish an Mutton..Ehhhh   Ova dehso mek mi tell unnu some'in...   Tru mi dey a foreign now a guy kill me cousin   An mi here sey TD deh dey but him sey he wasnt   Anytime mi fly down him a get bout dozen....Cause......      [Chorus: Baby Cham]   We get di ting dem   Dem outta luck now   Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem a duck now   We have whole heap a extra clip cau we nuh bruk now   Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah      [Alicia Keys] (Baby Cham)   We got the kingdom so we have to make way   We take it from the bottom to the top baby   And now the whole community can live greatly   (Rah...Rah..Rah...Rah)