George Benson - The Ghetto Lyrics
Talking bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto
Trying to survive, trying to stay alive
The ghetto
The ghetto
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Funk funky ghetto)
Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
Old school buddies not doing it right
Every day it's the same
And it's the same every night
I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
Every day I wonder just how I'll die
Only thing I know is how to survive
There's only one rule in the real world
And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
Might deal me some dope but then crime don't pay
Black man tried to break into my house again
Thought he got off early doing time in the pen
Even though my brothers do me just like that
I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Talking bout the ghetto)
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Funk funky ghetto)
So just peep the game and don't call it crap
'Cause to me, life is one hard rap
Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine
She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
600 Million on a football team
And her baby dies just like a dope fiend
The story I tell is so incomplete
Five kids in the house and no food to eat
Don't look at me and don't ask me why
Mama's next door getting high
Even though she's got five mouths to feed
She's rather spend her money on a h-i-t
I always tell the truth about things like this
I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
Instead of adding to the task force send some help
Waiting on him I'd better help myself
Housing authority and the O.P.D
All these guns just to handle me in the
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Talking bout the ghetto)
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Funk funky ghetto)
Even though they put us down and call us animals
We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
Never really saying just who we are
We use alias names like too $hort
Sell you stuff you might kill for
Young kids grow up and that's all they know
Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin dope
Only thing he knows is how to survive
But will he kill another brother before he dies?
In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
All day long, just hoping and hoping
You can pay your bills and not drink too much
Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
Like me, but you don't see
Ten years from now, where will you be?
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Talking bout the ghetto)
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Funk funky ghetto)
So much game in a too $hort rap
Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
Why you wanna act like someone else?
All you gotta do is just be yourself
We're all the same color underneath
Short dog's in the house you'd better listen to me
Never be ashamed of what you are
Proud to be black stand tall at heart
Even though some people give you no respect
Be intelligent, when you put em in check
Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way
And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
So if you don't listen it's not my fault
I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost
Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
While me and my peoples try to get out
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Talking bout the ghetto)
The ghetto
The ghetto
(Funk funky ghetto)
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George Benson The Ghetto Comments
questo Piano Fender Rhodes meraviglioso grande Benson
comment il peut exister de sombres merdes pour mettre un pouce baissé ???
Ils ne comprennent rien à la musique définitivement !,,,,!,,,,
Вот это музыка!!!!!!
Tem algum brasileiro aqui 🌚
DEUS VULT
Donny would be very proud of this cover.
ghetto is everywhere, do not forget ! Love from France
Je suis français
I went to Portobello Road last Saturday along the market and discover blue groove sound z which was selling George Benson 1976 breezing album
I bought once a copy of Give me the Night in a flea market and the record inside was Breezing wich I didn't knew by the time.. such an amazing discover! cheers from Uruguay
It's amazing and great
Espectacular!
Intouchables
LIVE IT NO IT FEEL IT
🇧🇷
THIS TRACK GIVES ME CHILLS .....I LOVE IT ......AMAZING AWESOME ......
This is what u call “real” music am I right.
Love this. Hint of Santana. Love Benson.
George sure did Donny justice! Does anyone else think his vocal style sounds similar to Donny's, or is it just me? Can you imagine if the two of them had done a collaboration before Donny's death? That would have been amazing!
You no nothing about Donny Hathaway rip
George Benson in my life from the 70's, George Benson till now, 2018!
And the song ends in the best moment :/
impecable
Siempre el toque Latino les da la esencia atoda la musica
like ;-)
Did Santana help out here?...haha
Pedro Talavera why
Pedro Talavera Badruddin Zaid Because of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYcyf2Mu0-c
Mambo...Salsa..percussive beats added to The late Great Donny Hathaway composition with George Benson's funky jazz guitar playin and great keyboards...I love it....they cut it too short (engineer/producer)...the groove should have stretched out...like Donnie's live version....just sayin...
topissime !!!!!!
top !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
buena musica
j'adore et dire qu'il est venu l'an passé, à l'Olympia, plus de places!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
groovy :)
mucho gran estilo buen jazz!
de BETTY Une Bonne Musique de George Benson j'Adore !!Le 02.10.2016 Betty de Bretagne !!!Super le Rythme !!!
Awesome.....
intouchables!! <3
Almost as good as Donnie Hathaway!
Joe Simple & George Benson Great Album !
UFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF SUPER THEME !
To this day I'm amazed at how talented George Benson is. I've been a longtime fan
Todd Victorson
Check it out thrirs live performance he does that on youtube look up "george benson phenomenal performance"
Ferguson and Baltimore.
Yeah, shake your bones!!!
una de las mejores canciones que he oido......Esto es música
siempre rumbo alicante
El mejpor en su estilo.......................tremenda cancion..............
Wen y todos hablando en ingles y yo me sentia la unica q no sabia ingles
one of the best song in the movie les intouchables
Great best George has Ever xx done
Great cover. I love George Benson. He may not have had the vocal power of Donny Hathaway, but this is still a great version.
True to the bone
Sounds like it has a latin touch to it.
@jijadelmais Perfect latin touch
The Ghetttoo
I cant stop play that...again and again
Merci pour ce magnifique moment.......George Benson.... un très grand
Does anyone know what the first instrument we hear is called? I love the sound of it.
+Jack Marion Wait, so is it a Rhodes or a Wurlitzer? I'm confused.
+Wartler I would say it definitly sounds like a Wurlitzer electric piano. Not a Rhodes. I may be wrong but for me it's a Wurlitzer.
I could be wrong, but it sound more like a modified "Dyna-my" Rhodes to me.
Oops. i looked at the live version, and he's definitely playing a Wurlizer.
Yeah it's got a funky stereo panning chorus effect. Pioneered by cats like Joe sample.
QUE DU BON !!!
More swing than this???¿¿¿!!! Impossible!!!! yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
yes sur
Just an average white boy coming late to the party but damn. This business has always stuck to me like something unintended but welcome after the fact. The best part of the internet, life and all of this business in 2014 is that I can connect with something so past my time that it becomes a multi-generational party. I am part of this tribe.
Well said
well said
well said
David Hagan 2017 and we hope you're still part of the party
@*****
It's from the album Absolute Benson.
best song of benson!
Que pedazo de canción que ya ha servido como bso de otras películas y nunca se pasa de moda.
super et tjr aussi bon
I just the fil and its amaizing..strongly recomend it.
Intouchables <3
The single hater of this wonderful masterpiece put 2gether by GB himself (although it's a cover of Donny Hathaway's earlier hit of the same title) is probably just as GHETTO him/herself.....Or maybe just 2 hooked on 2010's type of music.....SMDH.....
so so classy hmmm.
comm m piaccccccc
Que de souvenirs ... dont u knooooow its all right
It's great, but it cuts off around the 5:00 mark!
[GLEN FROM COMPTON]
greatest cover ever!
Intouchables /o/
I LOVE music.
incredible song!
I can't decide which version I like better, but both his and Donny hathaway's are amazing...this one is a bit smoother, Donny Hathaway sounds more like a jam session.
This one of Benson's best!! Love it!!
As classic as classic gets. Absolutely brilliant performance.
I have to stop " whatever" I'm doing to dance on this...luv it. George tears it up! I love Donnie Hathaway's version just as well. This will always be one of my favorite songs to dance to!
quel groove!!! un super morceau....
che suono caldo!!