[Busta Rhymes]
Y'know, You know, my homey Treach treach from Naughty By Nature naughty by nature once said
If"If you ain't from the ghetto, don't COME come to the fuckin ghetto fuckin' ghetto"
But I'ma let one of our most immaculate tour guides
takeTake us ALL all through the ghetto - ghetto, my nigga nigga, Rick James! James

[Rick James - sampled from "Ghetto
Life" + (backup singers)]
When I was a young boy, growin growin' up in the ghetto! ghetto
HanginHangin' out on corners, singin singin' with the fellas
LookinLookin' for the cute chicks, tryin tryin' to find me big fun
LookinLookin' for some trouble, trouble or anyone who'll give me someenter added
I was young and crazy! crazy
(In the ghetto)
Didn't know what my life would beenter added
(In the ghetto)
I was dumb and oh o, so lazyenter added
(In the ghetto)
Something had a spell on meenter added
(In the ghetto)enter added
You all know what I'm talkin talkin' 'bout (Talkin
(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
(Talkin life, talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
You all know what I'm singin singin' 'bout (Talkin
(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
Ghetto liiiiiiiiife (Talkin life
(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

[Busta Rhymes]
(In the ghetto)enter added
Sure we be takin takin' them chances
While while we search for the answers
We be smokin' them cancer sticks, police provokin' muhthafuckers
We dancin' and we be smokin them cancer sticks
Police provokin muh'fuckers we dancin
And we be dodgin dodgin' them bullets they be poppin poppin' off at us, shit
But yet we always romance the street
And and fall in love with the hood 'til

'Til somebody come blast the heat
Always heat, always up to no good, so good
So all of my fam could eat
See eat, see in the hood we hungry - hey nigga
Hey, nigga, we playin playin' for keeps
My keeps, my soldiers on the block get on it
It be good if you flaunt it, we will take if we want it
See niggazSee, niggaz, from the ghetto got a different state of mindenter added
With a different kind of hustle and we iller with the grind
And develop our muscle 'til we sicker with the shine in the struggle
In the struggle, thusThus our money come quicker doin doin' crime
I see the way we rep the hood, gotta love me
You me, you can take me out the
The ghetto, but you can't take it from me
Gotta me, gotta love it

[Chorus: Rick James + (backup singers)]
(Talkin 'bout ghetto life)
Ghetto liiiiiiiiife (Talkin life
(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
You all know what I'm singin singin' 'bout (Talkin
(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
Ghetto liiiiiiiiife (Talkin life
(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

[Busta Rhymes]
(In the ghetto)enter added
That's where we get into that street street, shit
Hustle hard, try to get money quickenter added
(In the ghetto)
That's where I got my name from
I learned to get money and I got all my game fromenter added
(In the ghetto)enter added
That's where you eat with a bunch of the wolves
And get to hustlin hustlin' as hard as you couldenter added
(In the ghetto)
Until your cake stackin stackin' shit'll get good
Throw a block party for the whole hoodenter added
(In the ghetto)enter added
With them burnout cellys
Talk burn out cellys, talk crazy, sell drugs in front of Pancho Deli
CrackheadCrack head chicks still smuggle babies in they belly
And them piss in elevators 'til theenter deleted
lobby all smellyenter added
(In the ghetto)enter added
That's where I keep my ratchets
Get my instincts and survival tactics
Ain't nuttin nuttin' like the hood nigga, I don't care
You survivin survivin' in the ghetto ghetto, you can make it anywhere
Gotta love it
[Chorus](Talkin 'bout ghetto life)
Ghetto life
(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
You all know what I'm singin' 'bout
(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
Ghetto life
(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

[Interlude: Busta Rhymes]
To my East east coast niggaz - niggaz, rep your ghetto
West coast niggaz - niggaz, rep your ghetto
Midwest niggaz - niggaz, rep your ghetto
Down South niggaz - south niggaz, rep your ghetto

To my east coast niggaz, rep your ghetto
West coast niggaz, rep your ghetto
Midwest niggaz, rep your ghetto
To my East coast niggaz - rep your ghetto
West coast niggaz - rep your ghetto
Midwest niggaz - rep your ghetto
To my Dirty South niggaz - dirty south niggaz, rep your ghetto

[Busta Rhymes]
(In the ghetto)enter added
Even though they act rude
You'll rude, you'll always find a good chick to
To hold a brick for they dude dude, behind the bullshit
Behind the bullshit, meMe and my clique on the move
We move, we honor the code of the street, and street
And liveenter deleted
by the rules (In the ghetto)
Is where, all of the hood's at
(In the ghetto)

Find the most crooks and they sell the most drugs at
Where you find beautiful women and rugrats
And some of the most powerful people, I love that!
C'mon that, come on
[Outro: Rick James + (backup singers)](Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
You all know, what I'm talkin' 'bout
(Talkin 'bout ghetto life, talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
You all know what I'm talkin singin' 'bout (Talkin 'bout ghetto life)
(Talkin 'bout ghetto life)
You all know what I'm singin 'bout (Talkin (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
Ghetto liiiiiiiiife (Talkin life
(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
(In life, in the ghetto)
"NeverNever mind who you thought I was, was
I'm Rick James, bitch
Rick James BITCH!" [applause]
"Cocaine Cocaine is a hell of a drug" drug