Kelis - Ghetto Children Lyrics

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2020 ❤💘

damn its indeed basically slick rick's hey young world lol

2019 ❤🎶

Eu amo essa música! ❤

Viciante

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Brasil na área 🔥

Som maneiro, muito bom e dançante! 🎼🎼🎼👍👏👏👏👏

Neptunes

Whose here because of jay Versace? ✋

[Intro - Pharrell]
Yo, wake up, wake up, ghetto children
Wake up, wake up, ghetto children
Wake up, wake up, ghetto children
Wake up, wake up, ghetto children
Wake up, wake up, Hey, hey

[Verse 1 - Marc Dorsey + [Kelis]]
You're a ghetto boy, you're my life
And there's so much for you to protect and to save
And baby boy don't hit your wife
Cause your kids may grow up someday to be this way, yeah
You don't know what you may be
To some boy in society
There's a secret to why[There's a secret]
You must survive
So listen to what we say
Cause this type of shit happens every day

[Chorus - Kelis + Marc Dorsey]
Come for yours cause dreams come true
And this is the message that we bring through
Say hey now, hey now, now
Hey now, hey now
No matter what teachers say to you
Ghetto children are beautiful
Say hey now, hey now, now
Hey now, hey now

[Verse 2 - Kelis + [Marc]]
Baby girl you're my life
It's important that you smile
And never cry, [Don't never cry]
Study math and your sciences
Maybe you'll figure why we subtract and not multiply
You don't know what you may be
To some girl in society
There's a secret to why
We must survive
So listen to what we say
Cause this type of shit happens every day

[Chorus - Kelis + Marc Dorsey]
Come for yours cause dreams come true
And this is the message that we bring through
Say hey now, hey now, now
Hey now, hey now
No matter what teachers say to you
Ghetto children are beautiful
Say hey now, hey now, now
Hey now, hey now

[Verse 3 - N.E.R.D.]
Crack town, ghetto in the city
Buildings are abandoned but the girls are still pretty
A child looks in the mirror, yeah to see my life clearer
All I see is ghetto keys, to this jet black coke gram
Nine eleven course, of course 911 don't mean help
The only ones that need help, is them sons without wealth
It's apparent that this nation, they don't know what they facing
Young natural born killers, and these street corner masons
You want that type of money, that you see in the mob cliques
With your stashes in the drawers, yes with the lumps under my carpet
Listen to your heart, why should I listen to you
I was here from the start, but you don't bring no money through
Look I only feel capes, and to get it I kill Jakes
By the time I'm 20 wanna be the ghetto Bill Gates
You a wannabe an angel, that was in my brain too
Now the only Star Spangle's coming out my Kangol
Now that I'm out it's like the whole world flames you
Although the ghetto's nothing like the conclusion I came to
Your friends see you playing both sides, now they don't claim you
Ghetto children change the world, don't let the world change you
Come on, word

[Chorus x2 - Kelis + Marc Dorsey]
Come for yours cause dreams come true
And this is the message that we bring through
Say hey now, hey now, now
Hey now, hey now
No matter what teachers say to you
Ghetto children are beautiful
Say hey now, hey now, now
Hey now, hey now

[Outro - Pharrell]
Little children wanna seem part of
The whole world wants to be apart of
A little ghetto things, a little ghetto things
Ay yo, ay yo
Little children wanna seem part of
The whole world wants to be apart of
My little ghetto kings, my little ghetto queens

dues to slick rick for inspiring the kings. without him this record never got made

NERD's part is so good

amo esse cd cara!!!!! 1997 !!!

Filipe Marques 1998

esse n t pra ninguem velhos tempo do clube da cidade tempo bom

so many years have passed... and I still love this song :)

Ditto❤👽

Years and Years

Pharrell killed the beat

Shouts for saving Ian Connor

Who is that?

fantastic.....
Essa nega canta muito.................

message

This is my first time hearing this and I am surprised. I didn't know Kelis could sing like this. But dude really can SING.

"Dude" ???

Like ;)

this was her best album

Damont Miller and still is

This is where I live.

musica da hora

This is my song

crankin it in 2013! still my jam

i got over my ex w/ this album..,lol..great production on the neptune part..

This song samples from that song

thats the word, N.E.R.D

If you love this listen to 'Hey young world' By Slick Rick

This song was so inspiring. Miss kelis come back

Kelis Is So Underated ,!

@reggieziet I know. Her children are rich

Well..... at least she wont have ghetto children herself, getting 50.000 a month
for child support from Nas.

She has the best songs and her voice is so amazing, none other quite like hers, so deep and sultry. Love, Love, Love Kelis. Better than Beyonce. Beyonce is to pop for me. I like the real music such as Kelis, Amerie. You Go Girl.

mmmm that guy's voice is BEAUTIFUL

i feel like a kid again :P

whateverfudge I was born around the same time the Neptune sound was just getting started, I remember some of 2001 and most of 2002 but man The Neptune’s gives me so much joy, they make me feel nolstagic, I miss my childhood

My fave from this album hands down! Love the message

Kelis so the truth i love her voice.

I also like how the rap verse sounds like a replica of some slick rick shit.....that's the bomb

I slept on this song for so long......I used to skip over it in the deck, till I just listened to it one day; what really caught my ear is how Kelis comes in when she sings her verse. She sounds so sweet, like she's really singing to little kids and stuff....this is a really cute song!

yay. luv dis. my momma used 2 always blast her cds in da car. neptunes. ^_ ^

Fuckin love this song but I hate what the bitch has done to Nas. NO CHILD NEEDS $50,000 a month, fuckin gold digger. . .

this song as so much meaning..usally ppl dont go for these kinda songs but the beat makes the song even better o how i wish music was still like dis

Check out my YouTube channel. Pharrell Williams and N.E.R.D./The Neptunes are great influences on my music. Check it out.