[Busta Rhymes]
 Y'know, my homey Treach from Naughty By Nature once said
 If you ain't from the ghetto, [bad word] to the [bad word] ghetto
 But I'm gonna let one of our most immaculate tour guides
 take us ALL through the ghetto - my [bad word] Rick James!

[Rick James - sampled from "Ghetto Life" + (backup singers)]
 When I was a young boy, growing up in the ghetto!
 Hangin out on corners, singin with the fellas
 Lookin for the cute chicks, trying to find me big fun
 Lookin for some trouble, or anyone who'll give me some
 I was young and crazy! (In the ghetto)
 Didn't know what my life would be (In the ghetto)
 I was dumb and oh so lazy (In the ghetto)
 Something had a spell on me (In the ghetto)
 You all know what I'm talking 'bout (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
 (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
 You all know what I'm singin 'bout (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
 Ghetto life (Talking 'bout ghetto life)

[Busta Rhymes]
 (In the ghetto) Sure we be Taking them chances
 While we search for the answers we be smoking them cancer sticks
 Police provoking [bad word] we dancing
 And we be dodging them bullets they be poppin off at us, [bad word]  But yet we always romance the street
 And fall in love with the hood 'til [bad word] blast the heat
 Always up to no good, so all of my fam could eat
 See in the hood we hungry - hey [bad word] we playing for keeps
 My soldiers on the block get on it
 It be good if you flaunt it, we will take if we want it
 See niggas from the ghetto got a different state of mind
 With a different kind of hustle and we iller with the grind
 And develop our muscle 'til we sicker with the shine
 In the [bad word]  thus our [bad word] quicker doing crime
 I see the way we rep the hood, gotta love me
 You can take me out the ghetto, but you can't take it from me
 Gotta love it
 [bad word]  Rick James + (backup singers)]
 (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
 Ghetto life (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
 You all know what I'm singin 'bout (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
 Ghetto life (Talking 'bout ghetto life)

[Busta Rhymes]
 (In the ghetto) That's where we get into that street [bad word]  Hustle hard, try to get money quick (In the ghetto)
 That's where I got my name from
 I learned to get money and I got all my game from (In the ghetto)
 That's where you eat with a bunch of the wolves
 And get to hustling as hard as you could (In the ghetto)
 Until your cake stacking [bad word] ll get good
 Throw a block party for the whole hood (In the ghetto)
 With them burnout cellys
 Talk crazy, sell [bad word] in front of Pancho Deli
 Crackhead chicks still smoke with babies in they belly
 And them [bad word] in elevators 'til the lobby all smelly (In the ghetto)
 That's where I keep my ratchets
 Get my instincts and survival tactics
 Ain't nuttin like the hood [bad word]  I don't care
 You surviving in the ghetto you can make it anywhere
 Gotta love it
 [bad word] 

[Interlude: Busta Rhymes]
 To my East coast niggas - rep your ghetto
 West coast niggas - rep your ghetto
 Midwest niggas - rep your ghetto
 Down South niggas - rep your ghetto
 To my East coast niggas - rep your ghetto
 West coast niggas - rep your ghetto
 Midwest niggas - rep your ghetto
 To my Dirty South niggas - rep your ghetto

[Busta Rhymes]
 (In the ghetto) Even though they [bad word]  You'll always find a good chick to hold a brick for they dude
 Behind the [bad word]  me and my clique on the move
 We honor the code of the street, and live by [bad word] (In the ghetto)
 Is where, all of the hood's at
 Find the most crooks and they sell the most [bad word] at
 Where you find beautiful women [bad word]  And some of the most powerful people, I love that!
 C'mon

[Outro: Rick James + (backup singers)]
 (Talking '