Ghetto Story Chapter 2 - Cham, Alicia Keys

When me and mama bed was a big piece of foam

And me never like bathe and my hair never comb

When mama gone a work me go street go roam

I remember when danny dem take me snow cone

And make him little brudda dem kick up jerome

I remember when we visit them with pure big stone

And the boy danny pop out something wit full chrome

I remember when we run, fatta get him knee blown

And me best friend richie got two in him dome

I remember seventh avenue turn in a warzone

And mikey modda a fly him out 'cause she got a loan

But, mikey go to foreign and go turn al capone

Make whole heap a money and say me now ah own

Now a we a lock the city and, that is well known

Yesterday mikey call me up on mi phone

(chorus)-mi say mikey

We get de ting-dem

Dem outta lock now

Me squeeze seven and the whole a dem a duck now (cham) — this is my story

We have whole heap a extra clip 'cause we nuh bruk now greatly (cham)-true

ghetto story

Rah rah rah rah

(alicia keys) — we got the kingdom so we have to make way

We take it from the bottom to the top baby (cham) — this is my story

And now the whole community can live greatly (cham)-true ghetto story

Rah rah rah rah

(alicia keys) — i remember those days when we was dead broke

And i could baraly find a, dollar for a token

Hop in the train just to get where im goin

Popos after me and runnin like im smokin

Remember those days when i went to bed hungry

All i ever ate was white rice and honey

Big dreams in my head

Empty in my tummy

Might crack a smile but

Aint nothin funny

I remember playin over needles in the street

Everywhere i go a man wants some part of me Dirty dirty hookers and hoes on eleventh avenue

Selling bodies for dope

I remember crying saying that will never be me Gonna make it someday gotta be somebody

Mommy don’t worry

Its just you and me But one day we will get out of this misery

(chorus)-we get de ting-dem

Dem outta luck now

Me squeeze seven and the whole a dem a duck now cham) — this is my story

We have whole heap a extra clip cau we nuh bruk now (cham) — true ghetto story

Rah rah rah rah

(alicia keys) — we got the kingdom so we have to make way

We take it from the bottom to the top baby (cham) — this is my story

And now the whole community can live greatly (cham) — true ghetto story

Rah rah rah rah

(alicia keys) — heres my ghetto story, story

Been in hell through the fire

Gonna take it higher

Heres my survival story, story

So many reasons to sing them, 'cause

Now we got the keys to the kingdom

(cham) — jamaica get screwed through greed an glutton

Politics manipulate and press youths button

But we rich now, so dem can tell man nuttin

'cause a we a make mama a nyam fish an mutton.

ehhhh

Ova dere so make me tell dem un sumtim

Tru mi dey a foreign now a guy kill me cousin

And me here say till today but him say he wasn’t

Anytime me fly down him a get bout dozen… cause…

(chorus)-we get de ting-dem

Dem outta luck now

Me squeeze seven and the whole a dem a duck now

We have whole heap a extra clip cau we nuh bruk now

Rah rah rah rah

(alicia keys) — we got the kingdom so we have to make way

We take it from the bottom to the top baby

And now the whole community can live greatly

(cham)-rah rah rah rah

(cham) — i remember those days when hell was my home

When me and mama bed was a big piece of foam

And me never like bathe and my hair never comb

When mama gone a work me go street go roam

I remember when danny dem take me snow cone

And make him licka breda dem kick up jerome

I remember ((alicia keys) — i remember) when we visit them with pure big stone

And the boy danny pop out something wit full chrome

I remember ((alicia keys) — i remember) when we run, fatta get him knee blown

And me best friend richie got two in him dome

I remember ((alicia keys) — i remember) seventh avenue turn in a warzone

And mikey modda a fly him out 'cause she got a loan

But, mikey go to foreign and go tun al capone

Make whole heap a money and say me in our own

Now a we a lock the city and, that is well known

Yesterday mikey call me up on mi phone

Me say mikey