I'm visualizing studios with forty-eight tracks
Ghettos and hoods and economies and cutbacks
Raise your guns up high if your fearing debt
***k the police, they smoke them like a cigarette

Must have been a ***king organ donor
Because they left him in the projects to die with his eyes open
Oh god, don't take my only dog
But them *****s drove up like a ***king hog

Some chase, a ***** ran him through the hood
Eighteen shots left my homie in some pine wood
Another end in dope game battle with a gat
Rat-a-tat-tat, *****, who gonna be next?

So smile for my homie, Rando
To many *****s out here get caught up in scandals
I'm living like a rat trying to get some cheese
But I'm getting on my knees, 'cause God don't let it be me next

Trying to make it out this ghetto, uhh
Trying to make it out this ghetto, uhh
Trying to make it out this ghetto, uhh
Trying to make it out this ghetto, uhh

Twenty-four seconds till your last smile
Bullets to your face, them *****s you grew with
And bang with saw you take your last ***king mile
I'm hugging your only child with your strap by my side

Murder in my eyes, no time to cry, somebody gots to die
The night you left I said my prayers for the last time
God forgive me, before I leave this world I'm taking somebody with me
These *****s don't give a ***k about me or you
That's why I snatch my ***king shirt off and show you that I'm TRU

You told me be a soldier to the end, I can't pretend
In my sleep I see my cousins eyes, why he have to die?
Six G's by his side now we gotta ride
I hope I make it out this ghetto to that other side

Trying to make it out this ghetto, uhh
Trying to make it out this ghetto, uhh
Trying to make it out this ghetto, uhh
Trying to make it out this ghetto, uhh

All I can say is why two times at night I cry
We live and die, maybe it was stress I was driven by
I done seen some funerals in my short stay
On planet Earth, we live on this white chalkway

This life is streets feening, the type of **** you witness on CNN
Me and my *****s seen it at first hand
And even worse man it's *****s I know
That this life was beautiful place and all my soldiers trying to go

But I'm too young, you gotta be at least twenty-one
I know some youngsters, who creeping now it must have been fun
'Cause none of them returned, forever fly or forever burned
Fools concerned with the way we learn in these streets

Lord forgive us, the blood flows like the Mississippi River
That homicide was what took him with us
I'm on the corner strapped up waiting for the devil
And if I die, I still make it out the ghetto

Trying to make it out this ghetto, uhh
Trying to make it out this ghetto, uhh
Trying to make it out this ghetto, uhh