Get up, get up, oh Lord, I've been, I've been praying for ya, hallelujah
Lord, say this to me
It is easy as 1, 2, 3, I wanna be what's on TV
And if that's wrong, please don't blame me
Cause where I live, we have nothing
In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
Little kids growing up without no education
Moms on drugs cause that's the only medication
Nobody's home but they ain't on a vacation
But they left the kids alone watching the TV station
What's wrong with the baby?
Action, please, someone give me the answers
Then we wonder why the girls grow up to be dancers
Then we wonder why the boys grow up to be dealers
And they be angry at the whole world ready to kill us
Ay, how do we start to resolve the whole problem?
How we let our little children just turn into goblins?
Why we got them all killing and stealing and robbing?
We need to plant a little seed to prevent the mobbing
Why don't we teach them that science to reach for the stars?
Cause they gon' be defined with the future worse than ours
Don't want them looking in the past and covering scars
They need a path out the ghetto, ghetto, hello
It is easy as one, two, three
I wanna be what's on TV
And if that's wrong, please don't blame me
Cause where I live, we have nothing
In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
Little boy got a dream to be a ball player
His little homie wanna grow up to be a ball player
Little missy wanna grow to be a rhyme slayer
Little missy wanna grow to be a model
While her mama at home just drinking on the bottle
Ay, how come they don't wanna grow to be a councilman?
Senator, a governor, a mayor, politician man
Probably cause the politician in it keep on tricking them
Promise that they fixing it, but they ain't really fixing it
Ay, that's why they wanna be like me
Like Jigga, like me, and Nicki, and Ri
Every day in the ghetto's an emergency
But the powers that be don't emerge in sleep
That's why you see me in the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
That's why you see killing, that's why you see crime
That's why you see the homies in the prison doing time
That's why you see crack, that's why you see blacks trapped
But no access out the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
It is easy as one, two, three
I wanna be what's on TV
And if that's wrong, please don't blame me
Cause where I live, we have nothing
In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
In the ghetto, ghetto
In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
In the ghetto, ghetto.
It is easy as one, two, three I wanna be what's on TV
And if that's wrong, please don't blame me Cause where I live, we have nothing
In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, ghetto
Ghetto, ghetto, oh Lord
I've been, I've been praying for you
Hallelujah
You know I say these children