Get up, get up, oh Lord, I've been, I've been praying for you, hallelujah, you know I'm saying it's true 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 no vacation But they left the kids alone watching the TV station What's wrong with the picture, 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 Ayy, how do we start to resolve the whole problem How we let our little children just turn into goblins While we got them all killing and stealing and robbing We need to plant a little seed to prevent them mobbing Why don't we teach them that science to reach for the stars Cause they gon' be defying what the future worse than ours Don't want them looking in the past and covering scars They need to pass out the ghetto, ghetto, hello 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 Lil' boy got a dream to be a ball player His little homie wanna grow to be a rhymeslayer Lil' missy wanna grow to be a model While her mama at home just drinking on the bottle Ayy, how come they don't wanna grow to be a councilman Senator, a governor, a mayor, politicians Probably cause the politician in it keep on tricking them Promise that they fixing it but they ain't really fixing it Ayy, that's why they wanna be like me Like Jigga, like me and Nicki and Rih Every day in the ghetto's an emergency But the powers that be don't emerge in sleep That's why you see killing, that's why you see crime That's why you see the homies in the prison doing crime That's why you see crack, that's why you see blacks trapped with no access out the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto 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 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 Ghetto, ghetto, oh Lord I've been, I've been praying for you Hallelujah, Lord save these children