Rakim Lyrics

Album: Book Of Life

In the Ghetto Lyrics

Planet Earth was my place of birth

Born to be the sole controller of the universe

Besides the part of the map I hit first

Any environment I can adapt when it gets worse

The rough gets goin the goin gets rough

When I start flowin the mic might bust

The next state'll shake from the power I generate

People in Cali used to think it was earthquakes

Cause times is hard on the boulevard

So I bogaurd and never get scared I'm god

But it seems like I'm locked in hell

Lookin over the edge but the R never fell

Or tripped or slipped cause my Nikes got grip

I stand on my own two feet and come equipped

Any stage I'm seen on the mic I feind on 

I stand alone and need nothin to lean on

Goin for self with a long way to go

So much to say but I still flow slow

I come correct and I won't look back

Cause it aint where you from it's where you at

Even the "Ghetto"

I learn to relax in my room and escape from New York

Take a trip through the womb of the world as a thought

Thinkin how hard it was to be born

Me being cream with no physical form

Millions of cells with one destination

To reach the best part that's life's creation

Nine months later a job well done

Make way cause here I come

Since I made it this far can't stop now

There's a will and a way and I got the know-how

To be all there is to be and more

To see all there is to see before

I'm called to go back to the essence

It's a lot to learn so I studied my lessons

I thought the ghetto was the worst that could happen to me

I'm glad I listened when my father was rapping to me

Cause back in the days they lived in caves

Exiled from the original man and strayed away

Now that's what I call hard times

I'd rather be here to exercise the mind

Then I take a thought around the world twice

From knowledge the form back to knowledge precise

Across the desert that's hot as the Arabian

But they couldn't cave me in cause I'm the Asian

Reaching for the city of Mecca visit Medina

Visions of Nefertiti then I seen her

Mind keeps travelin I'll be back after I

Stop and think about the brothers and sisters in Africa

Return the thought through the eye of a needle

For miles I fought and I just fought the people

Under the darks skies on a dark side

Not only there but right here's an aparthied

So now is the time for us to react

Take a trip through the mind and when you get back

Understand your third eye seen all of that

It aint where you from it's where you at

Even the "Ghetto"

No more props I want property in every Burrough

Nobody's stoppin me because I'm thorough

Rhymes I make give me real estate for me to own

Where ever I bless a microphone

Double O seven is back and relaxin

On point and reactin and ready for action

I'm so low key that you might not see me

Incognito and takin it easy

Quiet is kept on a hush hush

In front of a crowd I get loud as a bum rush

But calm keep a low pro and play the background

Hoping the wack rappers put the mic back down

So rip it break it in half go ahead and slam it 

Cause when it's time to build I'm a mechanic

I'm bondin and mendin attachin and blendin

So many solos there is no ending

People in my neighborhood they know I'm good

From London to Hollywood where ever I stood

Footprints remain on stage ever since

Sidewalks and streets I leave fossils and dents

When I had sex I left my name on necks

My Trademark was left throughout the projects

I used to get rich when I played c-lo

When I rolled 4,5,6 they go we know

So I collect my cash then slide

I got my back my gun's on my side

It shouldn't have to be like that 

I guess it aint where you from it's where you at

Even the "Ghetto"