Ghetto Stardom - Mac Mall.mp3

[00:09.99]Now when I just made 12 years old
[00:12.03]My mama told me:'Baby boy, you know you gotta be strong
[00:14.67]And even though they lead you wrong, stay on the right track
[00:17.94]Cause it ain't no get right without some get back.'
[00:20.49]Yeah, I heard that, but back then I didn't feel it
[00:22.89]Cause I was rollin' do or die, tryna see me a ticket, just kickin'
[00:26.07]G-block, I said I'll never leave
[00:27.93]Even when the rollers chase me down til I can't breathe
[00:30.48]Bitches freeze, who me? Oh, never that!
[00:33.24]I'm hittin' fence after fence until I'm chillin' at my doormat
[00:36.48]Like a mack I had to get away
[00:38.31]Cause I'm a smooth operator, ask Shanda
[00:41.13]But the rollers in the V is so shady
[00:43.59]If they could, they would plan something on me
[00:45.96]But really, them ain't the fools I gotta worry 'bout
[00:48.54]Cause white folks goin' loced in the white house
[00:51.27]And I doubt a republican or democrate
[00:53.70]Gives a **** about us young inner city blacks
[00:56.40]It's a trap, Uncle Sam keeps cursing me
[00:58.62]Rather have me in the pen than the university
[01:01.32]Yeah, it's a shame but mane, that's how it is
[01:03.96]So ya better peep game and try to lace ya kids
[01:06.54]Cause it ain't no tellin' what's soon to come
[01:09.15]When the punk president might drop the bomb
[01:11.73]Got me all stressed out with my brain on numb
[01:14.19]My little cousin asking me where shit come from
[01:16.92][Chorus:]
[01:17.40]They try to tell us in the verses and the scriptures
[01:20.16]But I guess the real message must have missed us
[01:22.53]In '96 all my brothers and my sisters
[01:25.11]Is on a mission, we're trippin' livin' senseless
[01:27.63]Tell me, will I see the sun in days to come
[01:30.12]Will blacks be the victors instead of victims
[01:32.79]Or will my people keep killing over ****ing crumbs
[01:35.34]Pushin' shit just to reach ghetto stardom
[01:37.50]If you ask Mac Mall who I'm voting for
[01:39.63]I say:'Farrakhan' as I'm hittin' the bomb
[01:43.14]I .. to the swisher or the dohja spliff
[01:44.94]Get elevated to another as I reminisce
[01:47.58]About fresh candy paint and peanut butter tops
[01:50.22]Young hustlers havin' paper, livin' top notch
[01:52.77]And then the D-game straight decline
[01:55.26]And all you Sawyer turf niggas makin' headlines
[01:58.17]10 o'clock news or America's most
[02:00.54]Unsolved mysteries, you better soak some shit
[02:03.12]Then the judge starts droppin' the injuries
[02:05.55]On all the gangstas, playahs, macks and G's
[02:08.25]And you know you wont see 'em til about 2 thou'
[02:10.71]Cause ya boy got washed with a faulty assed trial
[02:13.38]But at least one day he gone be free
[02:15.81]Some soldiers ain't never gonna see the streets
[02:18.30]That's why I keep servin' game over my beats
[02:20.82]So all my people, in and out, can straight feel me
[02:30.45][Chorus]
[02:44.76]There is nowhere for me to run
[02:47.07]Nowhere for me to hide from reality
[02:49.71]But I don't wanna be a casualty
[02:51.72]Of another tryna smother a brother just cause my salary
[02:54.93]And dog, I tell ya that these times' so sick
[02:56.88]That my sister's smoking dohja, 8 months pregnant
[02:59.31]My brother bubble on the grind and he's way legit
[03:01.98]Working on his third strike and he still won't quit
[03:04.71]But I can't tell him nuttin' bout a salary job
[03:07.05]So in order to get tha paper the boy gotta mob or sob
[03:10.41]All will fall to the waistside
[03:12.18]While the rollers overlook they wanna take lifes
[03:14.91]Youngstas they gettin' raised off the T.V.
[03:17.19]Got white kids around the country wanna be me
[03:20.01]And the way they point the finger ain't even shob
[03:22.41]Television replace religion, now the gangsta's god
[03:25.68]And old folks wonder why we so crazy
[03:28.38]90 knuckleheads and 70 high babies
[03:30.81]And can't nobody tell me that I'm wrong
[03:32.85]Uncle Sam finding ways to fit computer chips in my dome
[03:35.91]So I should ask before you slip
[03:37.86]See it's higher than the ultimate trip
[03:45.00][Chorus]
[03:59.37]You know, dedicated to DJ Cee, S-Double the Mac
[04:20.58]Reach Ghetto Stardom