Ghetto Children - Kelis, N.E.R.D, Marc Dorsey

Yo, wake up, wake up, ghetto children

Wake up, wake up, ghetto children

Wake up, wake up, ghetto children

Wake up, wake up, ghetto children

Wake up, wake up, Hey, hey

You’re a ghetto boy, you’re my life

And there’s so much for you to protect and to save

And baby boy don’t hit your wife

Cause your kids may grow up someday to be this way, yeah

You don’t know what you may be

To some boy in society

There’s a secret to why

You must survive

So listen to what we say

Cause this type of shit happens every day

Come for yours cause dreams come true

And this is the message that we bring through

Say hey now, hey now, now

Hey now, hey now

No matter what teachers say to you

Ghetto children are beautiful

Say hey now, hey now, now

Hey now, hey now

Baby girl you’re my life

It’s important that you smile

And never cry,

Study math and your sciences

Maybe you’ll figure why we subtract and not multiply

You don’t know what you may be

To some girl in society

There’s a secret to why

We must survive

So listen to what we say

Cause this type of shit happens every day

Come for yours cause dreams come true

And this is the message that we bring through

Say hey now, hey now, now

Hey now, hey now

No matter what teachers say to you

Ghetto children are beautiful

Say hey now, hey now, now

Hey now, hey now

Crack town, ghetto in the city

Buildings are abandoned but the girls are still pretty

A child looks in the mirror, yeah to see my life clearer

All I see is ghetto keys, to this jet black coke gram

Nine eleven course, of course 911 don’t mean help

The only ones that need help, is them sons without wealth

It’s apparent that this nation, they don’t know what they facing

Young natural born killers, and these street corner masons

You want that type of money, that you see in the mob cliques

With your stashes in the drawers, yes with the lumps under my carpet

Listen to your heart, why should I listen to you

I was here from the start, but you don’t bring no money through

Look I only feel capes, and to get it I kill Jakes

By the time I’m 20 wanna be the ghetto Bill Gates

You a were born to be an angel, that was in my brain too

Now the only Star Spangle’s coming out my Kangol

Now that I’m out it’s like the whole world flames you

Although the ghetto’s nothing like the conclusion I came to

Your friends see you playing both sides, now they don’t claim you

Ghetto children change the world, don’t let the world change you

Come on, word, nerd, word

Come for yours cause dreams come true

And this is the message that we bring through

Say hey now, hey now, now

Hey now, hey now

No matter what teachers say to you

Ghetto children are beautiful

Say hey now, hey now, now

Hey now, hey now

Little children wanna seem part of

The whole world wants to be apart of

A little ghetto things, a little ghetto things

Ay yo, ay yo

Little children wanna seem part of

The whole world wants to be apart of

My little ghetto kings, my little ghetto queens