Akon-    Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto we livin       Biggie-    I know how it feel to wake up fucked up    Pockets broke as hell, another rock to sell    People look at you like youse the user    Selling drugs to all the losers, mad buddha abuser    But they don't know about your stress-filled day    Baby on the way mad bills to pay    That's why you drink Tanqueray; so you can reminisce    and wish, you wasn't livin so devilish, ssshit    I remember I was just like you    Smokin blunts with my crew, flippin over 62's    Cause G-E-D, wasn't B-I-G    I got P-A-I-D, that's why my moms hate me    She was forced to kick me out, no doubt    Then I figured out licks went for twenty down South    Packed up my tools for my raw power move    Glock nineteen for casket and flower moves    for chumps tryin to stop my flow    And what they don't know will show on the autopsy    Went to see Papi, to cop me a brick    Asked for some consignment and he wasn't tryin to hear it    Smoking mad Newport's cause I'm due in court    for an assault, that I caught, in Bridgeport, New York    Catch me if you can like the Gingerbread Man    You better have your gat in hand, cause man    ( you betta have your gat in hand cause man )       Akon-    Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto we livin       2pac-    Our lifestyles be close captioned    addicted to fatal attractions    Pictures of actions be played back    in the midst of mashin'    No fairy tales for this young black male    Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail, and crack sales    Hustlin' and heart be a nigga culture or the    repercutions while bustin' on backstabbin' vultures    Sellin' my soul for material wishes, fast cars and bitches    Wishin' I live my life a legend, immortalized in pictures    Why shed tears? Save your sympathy    My childhood years were spent buryin' my peers in the cemetary    Here's a message to the newborns, waitin' to breathe    If you believe then you can achieve    Just look at me    Against all odds, though life is hard we carry on    Livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on    To all the seeds that follow me    protect your essence    Born with less, but you still precious       Akon-    Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto we livin    Gun shots every night in the (ghetto)    Crooked cops on sight in the (ghetto)    Every day is a fight in the (ghetto)    (oh oh oh oh oh) (ghetto)    Got kids to feed in the (ghetto)    Selling coke and weed in the (ghetto)    Every day somebody bleed in the (ghetto)    (oh oh oh oh oh) (ghetto)       Biggie-    I had the master plan    I'm in the caravan on my way to Maryland    with my man Two-Tecs to take over this projects    They call him Two-Tecs, he tote two tecs    And when he start to bust he like to ask, Who's next?    At last, I'm literally loungin black    Sittin back, countin double digit thousand stacks    See who got smoked, what rumors was spread    Last I heard I was dead       Akon-    Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto we livin    Cause thats the life when your    Living in the (ghetto) oh    Eating in the (ghetto) or    Sleeping in the (ghetto, ghetto)    Thats the life when ur    Living in the (ghetto)oh    Eating in the (ghetto) or    Sleeping in the (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto)       Biggie-    (talking) It's a funny thing i kinda realized how powerful 2pac   and i was u kno what i'm saying cuz pac is a strong dude    yo i kno him we two individual people we waged a coastal    beef but even tho we were going thru our drama i would    never wish death on nobody cuz there aint no comin bac