[Intro]
Yeah
All around the world, places I've been
Ghetto to ghetto, it's all the same (It's all the same)
This here is for all of my people around the world
We're doing it for you
[Chorus]
We're the young, gifted and Black, inspired by where we're from
'Cause every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
They don't know how we living, they say we're lost children
But we know that every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
In the press, in the media, it's never shown
But still, every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
Although life is hard [?] pain and suffering
But every ghetto got its beautifulness (It's so beautiful...)
[Verse 1: Battlekat]
Beautiful, ain't it? Yo!
They say the dawn embrace new life
I take a deep breath every sunrise
Respecting my elders, my peeps with great minds
Getting touched by the township breeze like heavy spirits of our fallen soldiers
Head high as I'm walking the streets
Black pride still growing older
I give a pound to a taxi driver 'cause he plays a part on my daily life [?] your chauffeur
The middle class wondering 'cause they barely know us
Lokshin life, a ten bucks means a meal for the day
Inspiration to young ones with dreams to get it made
But ghetto children don't do drugs to embrace fashion
They get high so they could find heaven
Come on!
(It's so beautiful...)
[Verse 2: Golden Shovel]
There's a place where my kind of people feel at home
We know it as the ghetto and this is where the rhythm flows
Where the legends grow, where the beauty of it [?] my folks
Good morning, sunshine
I'm writing a poem, you might get it spoken
I wrote the happiest version of life
I know of a beautiful home with heaven inside
I know of little girls who turned into ghetto queens now
Who were kids crawling but we walking streets now
Burning twicks in the land free
I'll swallow the hit just to keep the ghetto fire burning in me
Good night, sunshine
Hope I see you again
You bring the light to my ghetto in a beautiful way
[Chorus]
(Ghetto beautiful)
We're the young, gifted and Black, inspired by where we're from
'Cause every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
They don't know how we living, they say we're lost children
But we know that every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
In the press, in the media, it's never shown
But still, every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
Although life is hard [?] pain and suffering
But every ghetto got its beautifulness (It's so beautiful...)
[Verse 3: Genocide]
I love the ghetto, I'm a ghetto child, yes I say it proudly
I'm one of a kind, urban kids wanna be me
I owe it all to thee, Zone 3, how I love thee
You went up against soldiers and now you daughters are free
You carried our dreams as little boys jumping in streams naked
We never cared how immature it all seemed
We never had much push peaks and said they were cars
Imagination [?]
I love your summer days, sweetness of your summer peaches
All your features, the loud screaming of my neighbours
Years later, I look at how we all made it
A beautiful bliss, it's gotta be ghetto beautifulness
(It's so beautiful...)
[Verse 4: Logik]
In the ghetto is where I was born and raised
Learnt street lessons and spent most of my days
Though the world is round, we still chill on street corners
Weed smokers, street soldiers
We ain't formal like settlements level in townships neglected by governments
Through hardships, we still make the ugly look lovely
But the struggle is nothing funny
S-B-K, Zone 15 is where you find me
Now we perform [?] shake your spine [?] up the heavy metal
And all in all, I still do this music for the ghetto
'Cause it's all for my people in the ghetto
We're Black, proud and strong taking it to the next level
[Chorus]
(Ghetto beautiful)
We're the young, gifted and Black, inspired by where we're from
'Cause every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
They don't know how we living, they say we're lost children
But we know that every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
In the press, in the media, it's never shown
But still, every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
Although life is hard [?] pain and suffering
But every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
We're the young, gifted and Black, inspired by where we're from
'Cause every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
They don't know how we living, they say we're lost children
But we know that every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
In the press, in the media, it's never shown
But still, every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
Although life is hard [?] pain and suffering
But every ghetto got its beautifulness (Ghetto beautiful)
[Outro]
It's so beautiful...
Ghetto beautiful
Ghetto beautiful
Ghetto beautiful
Ghetto beautiful
Ghetto beautiful
