[Lupe talking:]You know I had to do it, man. It wouldn'ta been right if I didn't. You seen it? You seen the show last night on TV? You seen nigga's rims man? You seen the new Jordans man? You see her ass yo? Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.[Singing:]Seein' with my ghetto eyesI walkeded with my ghetto feetI talkeded with my ghetto speechI'm copasetic, I won't let it bring me downBring me down...I say it's enstilledAs I peep from beneath the titled brim of my pinwheelSteady mobbin', heavy problemsGenocide resynthesize to violence, makes it hard to sympathizeHarden, individuals whose feelings is minisculeSoon become criminals if you dark-skinnedAnd you was raised in a project apartmentPublic Aid made it that your father couldn't stayHe had to part then, left with only a motherThe family structure suffersHe will soon cling to hustlers, as his guardiansHe still a boy, needs to fill a void, marchin'Up the block up to no good, sellin' in the wrong hoodHe was taken down by a marksmenAt his wake, 8th Grade Graduation pictureLast words: Don't let the habitation get yaPardoned, Lord have mercy on the fallenAmen, feel like I'm hardenedGot the harbinger for the coming of the carpenterTil then, I got some big fish to fry like MarlinsPart niggas, steady mobbin'[Chorus:]I've got some questions to ask, and I'm waitin' on some answersLike, Why do the good die young? Why ain't there no cure for cancer?Won't let the streets dicatate my gloryCuz it's something out there for meBut I'ma flee my territorySo I won't end up, just a ghetto storyJust a ghetto story, just a ghetto storyJust a ghetto story, just a ghetto storyAnd I try to see past itThrough the down-roll window on the driver side of my Caprice ClassicSteady mobbin', corner store traffici.e. dope fiends, hookers and teens with alcohol IVsI see, plastic, cups is a nickel, 50 cent for Dutch MastersMy big brother's Pelle Pel' lingers of a fargone weed smokeLookin' for greener pastures, pasturized 2% for $2.19You can get 2 quarts, there's also a sale on NewportsA seperate line for Lotto, bumpy face, add a modelHuggin' a bottle, salt and sour Jays, and blueberry HugsShorties consider a meal, been my feel for itSweatin' for a pair of Air Jordans they would steal forAnd a gold chain 4 fiends would knife, wild and kill yoursThere's nothing too promising on our billboardsDrink Tanqueray, eat KFC, come abort your childBuy Nikes, which makes it highly unlikely that we gon' fight, GSteady mobbin'[Chorus:]I've got some questions to ask, and I'm waitin' on some answersLike, Why do the good die young? Why ain't there no cure for cancer?Won't let the streets dicatate my gloryCuz it's something out there for meBut I'ma flee my territorySo I won't end up, just a ghetto storyJust a ghetto story, just a ghetto storyJust a ghetto story, just a ghetto storyAnd I'm still onAs I stroll down the same street so many like me once before, were killed onSteady mobbin', thinkin' bout the Black PanthersAnd the babies that were born in the late '80sThat now have babies that lack PampersNo Kwaanzas and they lack SantasAnd the father who thinks shoe-shopping is the answerSkipped out on parenthood classes so she don't know how to handle herAnd never learned from her grandmotherOne day got hot, couldn't take it, dropped her in a vacant lotAlbum of Life, now condensed into a samplerSee the shapes these little girls is gettin'?Somethin' say the steroids in the chicken is the cause of the thickening in the young womenLivid, see some shorties playin' Cops & Robbers, livin'Bittersweet thoughts is what I had for themI can picture colder feelin' Police chasin' after themCatchin' up to, friskin' and askin' themWhere the packs at? Who yo' cheif is? Where the straps at?Am I thinking too hard? Or perhaps that's realityIn a project mentality, but through it allI hope we learn more than how to be whores and how to move a ballSteady mobbin'[Chorus:]I've got some questions to ask, and I'm waitin' on some answersLike, Why do the good die young? Why ain't there no cure for cancer?Won't let the streets dicatate my gloryCuz it's something out there for meBut I'ma flee my territorySo I won't end up, just a ghetto storyJust a ghetto story, just a ghetto storyJust a ghetto story, just a ghetto story
Lyrics by Lupe Fiasco
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