[Intro: News Broadcast]
In Hawaii the elicit drug you're going to hear most about is Ice
Which is a form of crystal methamphetamines
In 2005 almost 40% of all substance abuse treatment admissions were for meth addiction
More than any other drug, or even alcohol
This is the highest rate in the nation
How serious is it?
The police chief of Hawaii stated
"We're going to be missing a generation of people if we don't we don't take an
Active roll of stemming the tide of this drug."
The number of people dying from meth on the island of Hawaii quadrupled between 1993 and 2003
There may be more people using other drugs in Hawaii
But this is the one that caused parents to utterly neglect their children
And create such rapid physical deterioration
[Verse 1: Slo-mo]
What happened to all the riders?
The block turned into a ghost town
Nothing but fiends, I guess that's how it goes down
Walking these decilite streets
Every step on the concrete got me closer to death and defeat
Pete Game, my homie used to be all that
Now they smoke p-dogs and be off crack
My closest to me yo
Pissing dirty when they see the P.O
Violate parole and go to Reno
Lay low, but when they fly back to the rock
They hit the ice rock, then they back on the block
The cycle never stops
There's big biz, and through the years, it gets inherited by the kids
So either you using it or you deal it to your own
I see you getting money, but you ruining your home
Fuck it, make your decision cause you're grown
You're turning paradise into a war zone
Welcome to the palace
[Hook]
Welcome to the H.I
A small city in the place where they stay high
(Welcome to the palace)
(Ice palace, ice palace)
Welcome to the H.I
A small city in the place where they stay high
(Welcome to the palace)
(Ice palace, ice palace)
[Verse 2: Slo-mo]
I went to Maili Elementary as a kid, the shit was hella ghetto
My classmates were suffering on another level
Some of them ain't have a mother, and some ain't have a dad
Some were hungry in foster homes, living bad
That's why now I'm living for you, if you want to know
My homie's mom was thirty, but she look hella old
Her cheeks sucked in, I could tell he was ashamed
Pretending he ain't know her when she used to call his name
He walked to the car with his head low
I said bro, I'll meet you up at the court, go ahead yo
His mama skirted as he chunked up a shaka sign
In the orange dots and we following them right behind
They took a left and saw police in the driveway
With his daddy in cuffs and looking at him sideways
A house fulla ice getting raided by the vice
And motherfuckers think it's paradise
Welcome to the palace
[Hook]
Welcome to the H.I
A small city in the place where they stay high
(Welcome to the palace)
(Ice palace, ice palace)
Welcome to the H.I
A small city in the place where they stay high
(Welcome to the palace)
(Ice palace, ice palace)
[Verse 3: Slo-mo]
Welcome to the H.I
A small place where they're really trynna stay high
From westside run on to the lakeside
His gritty fifty hitting harder than a baseline
My coastline looking like a ghetto outta the south
Old classmates' teeth falling outta their mouth
Bitches that I used to dig, smoking ice in front of their kids
Pregnant, with another in the crib
It's all bad, your grandparents your only hope
Living on the leeward coast is no joke
So broke with no soap and no dinner
Went to hit the food bank so you grow thinner
Your neighbor prolly going through the same thing
A young prolly with nothing to do but gang bang
So, when he turn eighteen on his block
He's either a fiend or a dealer, it don't stop
Homie, welcome to the palace
[Hook]
Welcome to the H.I
A small city in the place where they stay high
(Welcome to the palace)
(Ice palace, ice palace)
Welcome to the H.I
A small city in the place where they stay high
(Welcome to the palace)
(Ice palace, ice palace)
