Geto Highlites

(What you gon' play now?) Get on up Get on up Get on up Get on up Every ghetto got a different name, but they all the same So Coolio loco, gon' put you up on game We got homies who sell straps Homies who sell crack Homies who sell the bomb chronic sacks and fat dubs Givin' the neighborhood niggas love Pimps, players, suckers, hoes, poor thieves, gangsters, and thugs Two hood rats were scrappin' over who knows what The loudmouth one loc'd up in front of the ice cream truck And broke all the Lee nails while all the BG's bailed The little homie be in and out of camp This time he might get stuck Attempted one eight seven and he a minor with priors So the DA want him tried as an adult The big homie just had a son, no chokin' I think his baby mama is smokin' 'cause she's always broke And the young girls is dressin' more and more sleazy And everybody and they mama talkin' 'bout OJ and Eazy To the hoochies in the Hondas and Sentras Young niggas fightin' they case with public defenders Be it wrong or right (Right, right) These are the ghetto highlights To the niggas who smoke indo chocolate Thai and stress Niggas who got warrants out for they arrest Be it wrong or right (Right, right) These are the ghetto highlights Slap boxin' with all the young hoochies watchin' Dead cats in the street playing craps Niggas catchin' dice with they feet Think they got the funk, that one fool got stomped out 'Cause he's a mark with a gun The nosy bitch up the street called 9-1-1 Now one time is deep, jack a nigga and a bitch License and registration "All I got is a driver's permit" Niggas can't have shit We got dogs that rips but don't even trip Welcome to Southern California Liquor stores and churches on every other corner Your little brother plays Pop Warner Narcs raided the dope spot, eight year old kid got shot 'Cause they mistook his BB gun for a Glock And I ain't forgot about the homie Lano He got killed by a sucker way back in the eighties, oh I heard the homie Spidey is ballin' out of state He got himself off unemployment checks 'n Section 8 (Ayy, the homie kickin' the real) (Yeah, I hear what he sayin', loc) (But sometimes it's just like that in the hood) (Yeah, don't nothin' change in the game but the name, man) (That's right, you know that's right) To the young hustlers tryna stack a knot up The house parties that's gon' always get shot up Be it wrong or right (Right, right) These are the ghetto highlights Community programs will stop the violence All the niggas who loc'd up during the L.A. riots Be it wrong or right (Right, right) These are the ghetto highlights The nigga with all 16 switches sittin' on Ds Who got jacked, he tried to pull out his gat Bullets exit through his back Now his mama in all black And niggas is going to the barber to get a fade To carry their dead homie to his grave Pour out a little liquor Homegirl down the street With the green eyes and big titties is gettin' thicker Neighborhood clucks beam up and crackheads be sellin' TVs and VCRs For forty bucks, so what's up? Yesterday the homie committed a bank caper Saw the chase on the news and read the story in today's paper His little girl is just now taking training wheels off her bike While her daddy got twenty-five to life at full strike The little homie just tripped and stripped Because he didn't realize that the joint was dipped (that's right) OG's joinin' the Nation, and it's all good BG's is retaliatin' 'cause they enemies done crossed out the hood Crackhead mama's smokin' whole county checks Dope dealers who serve nickel pieces for s*x Be it wrong or right (Right, right) These are the ghetto highlights Young niggas going to school to be a doctor Late night sounds of gunshots and helicopters Be it wrong or right (Right, right) These are the ghetto highlights To all the motherfuckers who think their shit don't stink Rollin' on Ds and in the pen for robbin' banks Be it wrong or right (Right, right) These are the ghetto highlights This is just a little somethin' for my nigga That's still gon' be a nigga if he don't get no bigger Be it wrong or right (Right, right) These are the ghetto highlights Get on up Get on up Get on up Get on up Get on up Get on up Get on up