Vibes Web3 Music Competition Week 40// Akon's Ghetto (cover) by coderaikiri
Greetings and salutations to my fellow hivers, I wish you a splendid day whenever this video gets to you. Welcome once more to another edition of Vibes Web 3 Music Competition, I remain the very same @Coderaikiri and for my entry this lovely week I'll be performing a cover to Ghetto by Akon.
Looking back to Akon's catalogue, the man really created something unique with his pattern of music and if my memory serves me right I do believe he is the first rapper to incorporate Ruggedity into RnB. He blended ghetto life and thuggery into something beautiful that the whole just had to accept it.
Ghetto is a song about life of the average black American in the streets. People going to jail, children starving, teen pregnancy and all sorts of negative vices. The only hope they have is too keep pushing, keep fighting, hoping and praying that things gets better even when it dies not seem like it will happen anytime soon. The worst part about the ghetto is that it has similarities with quicksand taking its inhabitants to the bottom and there's no form of help coming at all. Everybody talks about living the ghetto but only a handful of individuals are lucky enough to accomplish this feat.
The song is a true beauty and I hope we all listen and enjoy it..
Thanks
LYRICS
Ghetto, ghetto
Ghetto, ghetto livin'
These streets remind me of quicksand
When you're on it, you'll keep goin' down
And there's no one to hold on to
And there's no one to pull you out
You keep on fallin', no one can hear you callin'
So you end up self-destructin'
On the corner with the toolie on the waist line
Just got up out the thing doin' state time
Teeth marks on my back from the K-9
Dark memories of when there was no sunshine
'Cause they said that I wouldn't make it
I remember like yesterday
Holdin' on to what God gave me
'Cause that's the life
When you're livin' in the (ghetto)
And eatin' in the (ghetto)
Oh, sleepin' in the (ghetto)
Ghetto, that's the life
When you're livin' in the (ghetto)
And eatin' in the (ghetto)
Oh, sleepin' in the (ghetto, ghetto)
No need to cherish luxuries
'Cause everything come and go
Even the life that you have is borrowed
'Cause you're not promised tomorrow
So live your life as if every day is gon' be your last
Once you've moved forward
You can't go back just to remove your past
'Cause you gotta be willin' to pray
Yes, there gotta be, there gotta be a better way
Yes, you gotta be willin' to pray
'Cause there gotta be, there gotta be a better day
Whoever said that the struggle would stop today?
A lot a niggas dead or locked away
Teenage women growin' up with AIDS
'Cause that's the life
When you're livin' in the (ghetto)
Oh, eatin' in the (ghetto)
Oh, sleepin' in the (ghetto)
Ghetto, that's the life
When you're livin' in the (ghetto)
Oh, eatin' in the (ghetto)
Oh, sleepin' in the (ghetto, ghetto)
Gun shots every night in the (ghetto)
Crooked cops on sight in the (ghetto)
Everyday is a fight in the (ghetto)
Oh oh oh oh oh (ghetto livin')
Got kids to feed in the (ghetto)
Sellin' coke and weed in the (ghetto)
Everyday somebody bleed in the (ghetto)
Oh oh oh oh oh (ghetto livin')
'Cause that's the life
When you're livin' in the (ghetto)
Oh, eatin' in the (ghetto)
Oh, sleepin' in the (ghetto)
Ghetto, that's the life
When you're livin' in the (ghetto)
Oh, eatin' in the (ghetto)
Oh, sleepin' in the (ghetto, ghetto)
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