Ghetto Stars - Tricky

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Yeah
Me's a ghetto youth
Me come from straight down ina the ghetto
Seen, Rockfort, Warica
Seen, Matches Lane
Jungle Heights, yeah
all I and I are one.
Carry kites, yeah
Me a tell ya
All Bull Bay Heights and dem heights dey.
Yeah
We come up
Seen, I you a hear me
Wicked ina de ghetto my brother
Wicked to the mass
And you done know the man have youth and youth and youth a come up
And you see when you come up
And the father drop out
Dem no know no father so dem come up to a gunman.
Me done know, because a saw de ghetto run a so the politician do it
dem bring in a bag a gun and barrage a thing and seen run up on youth on youth
And then when you check it out.
Dem send dem police friend to come for dem gun
And dem say dem not running gun and dem things deh.
And be here things in a ghetto
Seen, man no stop kill man.
Seen, man no stop rob man.
A no dem things deh we want ina Jamaica
We want love, unity, sense, strength and energy.
Yeah, we want a whole heap of things to go on for the ghetto youth all next year.
You done know me as one a dem uprighting ghetto youths,
Seen, so we a start from way down dey so.
We no just a come from no where and a come up ya so
A way down ina de so man a come from.
Say man a come way from the rock, when me say de rock, me mean the rock,
Seen, them flow ambulance and them come to the worst
Worst industrial
It's the work of the Caribbean country
I know it all from a long ways back
We no got no royalty, know what me say?
Yeah, get up in a place them call they'll sigh, call them
See them sitting in a store.
Gots with play, gots to this, gots to that, gots to everything.
Ever have a little fire get wet?
Wow, them has not said a word.
I a don't know my little friend over there sir.
Sure when they all left the motel
I sell chicken and some other things.
I a do know ya up front man.
Yes me brother, Sky the yes sir.
And the easy, we all easy, now we all smoke weed as one
Now listen I tell ya, the truth.
Y'all God bless been me, trust me.
I wanna show ya'll more thing about the ghetto.
See the ghetto is a case a pop, lollipop, all of them pop there
Yeah, I and I a juggle them from nine from down dere yes sir.
See ya know it's cool we got a system army
See ya don't know man no ghetto youth, see?
Street boy original, see?
Yeah, and noboby can fool and nobody can come use we.
Yeah, that's the way we run things.
We just steal a thing, we sell suck-suck on them thing.
Them thing come and them thing in The Star
and in the news in the Enquirer, the ex-news for earn our own paper.
Yeah, come with I and get we boy to come tell about 6 to 6 and 6 to 12.
And after this and after that you drink champagne and cut off you foot.

In a place something on that ya see
we is all caught on our neck for you
When them work them weary.
That's how the ghetto youth live.
That's why them ever try to elevate us, I and I ya see?
Ya know I and I elevate out of the slum.
That needs more order, we make war and peace look easy
See we me people we make use of that ya see?
Our mother and our father never have nothing, from way down there sir.

Trust me my brother.
See that's how I and I come up.
Go to school without lunch money and them sitting there.
That's why I no love nobody else.
One good thing I love about the little youth
they're the car keys to a I and I and a friend, me brother.
I tell ya, it'll sure fit all our sell ya anything ya
want.
I and I know.
I live with it.
I live with it, ya see?
Reality a reality see?
We no promote none of them boy over there sir.
See them stay over one side and go and eat them turkey and drink them what they wanna drink them.
The red wine's going
There is one thing and kick back and go and meditate and see?
Yeah, live with people me people live with we.
Ya know what me say?
Yeah, 'cause when I tell ya me brother, see there be
chain of bandages them a go under see?
Babylon release the train but them use is them brain see?
Trust me.
That's why I and I
Now go ask for them
God with it them build big pretty church and no build no school

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Adrian Thaws (born 27 January 1968), better known as Tricky, is a rapper and musician from Knowle West, Bristol, England who is important in the trip-hop scene (despite loathing the tag) and remains influential on the British scene more generally.

He is noted for an asthmatic whispering lyrical style that is half-rapped, half-sung. As a producer and a musician he is known for having an aversion to perfection preferring to build up a dark, rich and layered sound. Culturally, Tricky bridges white and black Britain particularly in his fusion of rock and hip-hop, high art and pop culture. He drew his influences from rap (Public Enemy) to post-punk (he covered a Siouxsie and the Banshees's song Tattoo).

Throughout his work, Tricky blurs the normally clear sexual definitions found within hip hop. Despite the heavy influence he drew from American hip hop in his debut album, Maxinquaye, he fights against typical sexual representations by, for example, dressing as a woman on the side sleeve of his album cover. Within many of his tracks he blends elements of varying types of music, and use his lyrics to create a much more ambiguous and blurry reality of sexuality.

Maxinquaye remains his most commercially and critically successful album to date. About it, Tricky originally said in an interview with Raygun in October 1996 that he wanted to make an 'out-an-out punk record' and that "I thought it was going be heavier. I thought it was just going to be an out-an-out punk record. But you end up straying. What I wanted to do was a total fast album. Some of the tracks are fast and hard, but they didn't come out like that." He also said that he hated being stuck with the trip-hop tag so "That's why I did Nearly God, and that's why I did Pre-Millennium Tension. You can't see them as trip-hop albums. So I just keep running away from it. But the farther you run, it's still there. They'll find you." Ever since, Tricky' style has evolved away from obscure, sample-based textures to a more contemporary, electronic sound.

Tricky was in Massive Attack and appeared in the movie The Fifth Element as well as the music video for Parabola by Tool. He has collaborated extensively with other artists on tracks on his various releases, including Bjork, Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, Anthony Kiedis , John Frusciante and Flea (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers), Martina Topley-Bird, and Alison Goldfrapp of Goldfrapp also many others.

After his initial success in the latter 1990's, he started his own label called Durban Poison. Currently he is heading a new imprint called Brown Punk. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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