Ghetto

[Intro: POETIK]
I'd like to apologize in advance to any of you all who may be offended by some of the content in this here album
Know that I put my heart in it and I kept it real
For those of you who know me personally, you know that I might not always be right
But I'm always Poetik
Ain't no shorts on that

[Verse 1: POETIK]
They say they count your blessings
Where I come from, uce, you can count on stressin' (If you can count, if you can count)
Who gon' win the election?
Don't matter, 'cause the kids still starvin' my section (Snowed out)
When I speak on the pressure
They say I hate white folks because of my aggression
If I'm mad, [?] add up to an absent father
At a system who don't give a damn about a brown man (Brown, brown)
Should I elaborate? Should I invite your white mind to Poly-saturate? (Brown, brown)
Could you appreciate that I'm just tryna teach all my people to educate (Uh)
Teachin' the truth, that we all somebody
And we came from somethin' though we livin' at the bottom
The day makin' believe and they sells
'Cause if we can do that, then they might put the hollows away
Push the bottles away, ain't nobody gonna die over colours today
Polys, Black and eses, we all the same (Straight up)
I'm tryna reach all y'all one at a time
But they don't want the truth exposed, nope
They rather see us locked up one at a time (At a time)
If it was back in the day, they would've had us shot down one at a time
It's time to change the world
Everybody stand together now, one at a time

[Chorus: Aye Blocc]
I used to wish on them stars in the ghetto
Used to wish when we starved in the ghetto
So believe that my heart's with ghetto
'Cause it's how it is, just where I'm from, ho-ooh-ooh

[Verse 2: POETIK]
I remember five mouths to feed
One can of eleni was the recipe
One blood, [?] right next to me
[?] for the deuce, try step to me
Had it sold out, fatalities
Livin' fast in the ghetto with the savagery, uh
Four strings on the gat, I see
Hella smoke in the buds, shack past the green
Vital Status, homie, that's the team
6-eighty-5 to the world, baby, that's the dream
And we was hard-timin' like we bastard seeds
But still we down for each other like family
Learnt some hard lessons, had me stressin' when I recollect on past events
Those still deemed heaven-sent
Bruh, I wouldn't change shit, dishonour after death, man
Y'all usos my heart, that's why I'm blessin'
I miss y'all, shed tears when I'm on my own
Sometimes I wish I could come back home
But life is like a diaper, it gives you shit
And it just keeps changin', changin', changin'
Still, I keep patient
'Cause even in the ghetto maze life could be amazin' (Amazin')
But somethin' in my mind complaces
Sell blocks, my relations got life how they face it

[Chorus: Aye Blocc]
I used to wish on them stars in the ghetto
Used to wish when we starved in the ghetto
So believe that my heart's with ghetto
'Cause it's how it is, just where I'm from, ho-ooh-ooh

[Bridge: Aye Blocc]
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh (I used to wish on them stars)
Oh-uh-uh-uh-oh-oh
Oh-uh-uh-uh-oh-oh (I used to wish on them stars)
Oh-uh-uh-uh-oh-oh

[Chorus: Aye Blocc]
I used to wish on them stars in the ghetto
Used to wish when we starved in the ghetto
So beneath that my highs with ghetto
'Cause that's how it is, just where I'm from, ho-ooh-ooh