Saving all my money all week long
   So I can go out driving with you
   Down on Hollywood Boulevard
   On friday night, dressed right
   I don't take no trouble smoke at the wall
   But I still have that leopard-skin hat
   That you gave me way back
   Before it was cool
   And they took it to school
  
   Here in the ghetto
   The ghetto of my mind
   Y aqui, the ghetto
   The ghetto of my mind
  
   Hey we wild it up, wild it up
  
   I like to dance with my rooner
   Cuz when we dance I feel like
   We are who we've meant to be
   He puts his arms around me
   I put my arms around him
   And I feel satisfied and free
   One night I tried my bandanna around his wrists
   And we started to sway and it felt so good
   And he said " looky here mamma, looky here
   I think I better just see you
   Safely out of the neighborhood"
   That is to say
  
   The ghetto
   The ghetto of my mind
   Y aqui, the ghetto
   The ghetto of my mind
  
   Hey we wild it up, wild it up
  
   Outside my window the noise is all I've got
   There are no stars in the sky
   Just the sirens and queens
   Breaking glass down in the parking lot
   That's the world where I live
   Sometimes I wonder, oh how can I go on ?
   But I know that the world you make inside your head
   That's the one you see around, that's what I said
   And the one you see
   Is the one you make
  
   Inside of the ghetto
   The ghetto of your mind
   Y aqui, the ghetto
   The ghetto of my mind
  
   Hey we wild it up, wild it up