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Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude)

John Legend, The Roots, Malik Yusef
2010-09-171:47 minSynced lyrics

"Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude)" is a song by John Legend, The Roots, Malik Yusef, released in 2010 in the Pop genre. The song is 1:47 long and contains 29 lines and 240 words.

0:11You know you ghetto boy when you got a face with a scar
0:16And yo' highest aspirations is a place and a car
0:20Shorties pull out and bussssst like a money shot
0:24Now he on the run he hot
0:27And he hurtin' his granny and she the only one he got
0:31The hood so shady
0:33You give up hope of ever even tryin' to find a sunny spot
0:38Light they caught him at the stop
0:40Light but if he woulda run that yellow
0:43Then he coulda run the globe
0:45But insteed with speed
0:47They put one in the middle of his frontal lobe
0:51Like a unicorn
0:52I'm just tryin' to keep you informed
0:55To my little ghetto soldiers in they gold
0:58Green red and blue uniforms chuuch
1:03But I'm feeling like the loneliest monk
1:05So I pull me a thelonius monk and blew the horn
1:10And we don the monikers of goons and gangsters
1:14And are trained to conduct ourselves true to form
1:19So we add a shorty a money a mack
1:22A lil' a eazy or a young to our name
1:26So all the big ballers grab rims and hung in the game
1:31And there's a degree of difficulty
1:33To make it from the ghetto boy into the manhood
1:37Especially when you know that yo' fresh greens
1:40Will help eliminated a canned good
1:43Can good and bad coexisssst
1:47In a place with plenty of off ramps but no exits
You know you ghetto boy when you got a face with a scar
And yo' highest aspirations is a place and a car
Shorties pull out and bussssst like a money shot
Now he on the run he hot
And he hurtin' his granny and she the only one he got
The hood so shady
You give up hope of ever even tryin' to find a sunny spot
Light they caught him at the stop
Light but if he woulda run that yellow
Then he coulda run the globe
But insteed with speed
They put one in the middle of his frontal lobe
Like a unicorn
I'm just tryin' to keep you informed
To my little ghetto soldiers in they gold
Green red and blue uniforms  chuuch
But I'm feeling like the loneliest monk
So I pull me a thelonius monk and blew the horn
And we don the monikers of goons and gangsters
And are trained to conduct ourselves true to form
So we add a shorty a money a mack
A lil' a eazy or a young to our name
So all the big ballers grab rims and hung in the game
And there's a degree of difficulty
To make it from the ghetto boy into the manhood
Especially when you know that yo' fresh greens
Will help eliminated a canned good
Can good and bad coexisssst
In a place with plenty of off ramps but no exits
Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude) lyrics

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