Songwriter: Emperor Ranks

Producer: Diddy

[Intro]
Now this one is ghetto reality
I'm from the ghetto and am about to get some
Have mi money and mi daddy, never have none
All ghetto yutes, you know you're the future fruits
Prime minister is about to serve the world tomorrow, I see

[Chorus]
Ohh, what a rough life
What a tough life
For a ghetto man and his child

Ohh, what a rough life
Now give it a fight, if you want to survive

[Verse 1]
Once a man, twice a child
Livity a ghetto appearance, spoil a ghetto child
Child will get on, child get wild
I know the child will be all over Rikers Isle
Yell to all

Emperor Ranks

Shabba Ranks is a Jamaican dancehall musician. He was one of the most popular dancehall artists of his generation.

His popular songs include, but are not limited to, Telephone Love Pon Mi Mind ft. JC Lodge, Bedroom Bully, and Wicked Inna Bed.

January 17, 1966 (age 54, Saint Ann Parish

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