Every Ghetto Every City Lyrics

Every Ghetto Every City lyrics

I was just a little girl

 Skinny legs, a press and curl

 My mother always thought I'd be a star

 But way before my record deal,

 The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill

 Made sure that I'd never go too far

 Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

 Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem

 Story starts at Hootaville grew up next to Ivy Hill

 When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun

 "Kill the guy" in Carter park

 Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark

 Watching kids show off the stolen ones

 Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

 Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem

 

 You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

 Looking back,

 Looking back, looking back, looking back

 You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

 Looking back

 Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

 

 A bag of Bontons, twenty cents and a nickel

 Springfield Ave. had the best popsicles

 Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu

 Main street roots tonic with the dreds

 A beef patty and some coco bread

 Move the patch from my Lees to the tongue of my shoe

 'Member Frelng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather

 Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick were together

 Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever

 

 You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

 Looking back

 Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

 You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

 Looking back

 Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

 

 Drill teams on Munn street

 Remember when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef

 Moving Records was on Central Ave.

 I was there at dancing school

 South Orange Ave. at Borlin pool

 Unaware of what we didn't have

 Writing your friends' names on your jeans with a marker

 

 July 4th races off of Parker

 Fireworks at Martin stadium

 The Untouchable P.S.P., where all them crazy niggers be

 And car thieves got away through Irvington

 Hillside brings beef with the cops

 Self-Destruction record drops

 And everybody's name was Muslim

 Sensations and '88 attracted kids from out-of-state

 And everybody used to do the wop

 Jack, Jack, Jack ya body

 Nah, the Biz Mark used to amp up the party

 I wish those days, they didn't stop

 Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

 Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem

 

 You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

 Looking back

 Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back

 You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

 Looking back

 Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

 

 Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

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