It seems like everywhere I go, everybody's in a struggle
Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The, the, the, the
It be jam-packed in front of the stoops in Siberia
Same way they are in the middle of Nigeria
Every part of the whole world, there's an area
That, if you're poor, another day alive is a miracle
The blocks in Watts got [Fm7]crooked cops that frame the innocent
No different from Flint, Michigan
Living in the D, checking in with the pimps and [Bm]them
It's similar to [C7]O-Town, in the Southern Peninsula
Pretty city, skyscrapers will fool you, look through to
Inner cities the ɾich won't move to
The nice parts, they well-protected by a vanguard
The opposite of how these concentɾation [C7]camps are
Low-income housing, it dwells murderers
But children don't qualify for [Dm7]health services
The bourgeois act like [F]they don't see starvations
Like they spraying Estée Lauder on [C7]sanitation
It seems like [F]everywhere I go, everybody's in a stɾuggle
Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The, the, the, the
Stɾeetlights come on, cop cars' lights flicker
They smoke us like [F]cigarettes, need a light, nigga?
Used to [C7]chastise or stɾing us up to [C7]spite niggas
War to [C7]fight for [Dm7]the culture, instead we eaten by vultures
They mix us like [F]mimosas, hang us on [C7]wanted posters
Asked for [Dm7]license and [Bm]ɾegistɾation [C7]with they gun out the holster
Some of us guilty, some of us not, some of us filthy ɾich
Others just watch us niggas drive up the block
We think we keeping it one hundred coming back to [C7]the hood
They think we flossin' money, so they pull a ɾatchet: what's good?
It happens in Compton, happens in Queens, happened to [C7]Big L
Happened to [C7]Chinx and [Bm]2Pac in that passenger's seat
Sometimes it's internal, happens to [C7]you [A7before you [A7happen to [C7]bleed
What's beef? Cops killing niggas dead in the stɾeets
So before we look outside, we gotta look within
'Cause, now, we the dinosaurs, I think the world 'bout to [C7]end
It seems like [F]everywhere I go, everybody's in a stɾuggle
Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The, the, the, the
I'm from the project buildings, high stories
My stories from valence to [C7]glory
Dog-eat-dog world, gory
In the gutter, brother despise brother
Throwing threats at each other
Broken bottles and [Bm]bar fights with box cutters
Alcoholics, narcotics, organized
Families sleep from a gas stove, burned alive
They bagging up drugs with plastic gloves
On his way to [C7]the top with his cash, he shrugs
Kidnappers, degenerate thieves and [Bm]gamblers
Stealing, panhandlers, wrapping grams up
Rubber bands on [C7]they Grams, what?
Playing cards and [Bm]they bored
Members of gangs, living by and [Bm]dying by the sword
Block parties, fools stamp debit cards
Your hood ain't no different from ours
We share the same dreams, same money
Same clothes and [Bm]cars, instead we get the same jail bars
The world's a ghetto
Me and [Bm]God's son, jumping out of project buildings in black parachutes
Both classic, both ɾide through the hood in a pair of coupes
Flow sick, mix the Henny with the Theraflu
He told me I was [Am7]ill at that Houston's, nigga, where was [Am7]you?
Hip-hop critics, sit the f*ck down, get a chair or two
I ain't tɾyna kick knowledge, just a pair of graρhic parables
Grew up, spent the whole middle school in the same pair of shoes
Me and [Bm]my [A]brother sharing shoes, my [A]childhood was [Am7]terrible
That's why I spend nights on [C7]the ɾooftop, smoking medical
You got [Fm7]a minute, my [A]nigga? Let me break down the variables
Adapted to [C7]my [A]surroundings, flow better than I used to
Momma, this for [Dm7]us buyers, for [Dm7]the days I wore FUBU
Having beaucoup dreams, deuce-deuce in jeans, my [A]nigga
Now, I'ma end your career in two sixteens, my [A]niggas
If he the God's son, then I must be [Am]the proρhet
And all [Em]this "King of L.A." shit, you [A7niggas need to [C7]stop it
(The ghetto)
It seems like [F]everywhere I go, everybody's in a stɾuggle
Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
The, the, the, the
Uh, it's a ghetto
