| Akon - In My Ghetto songs - Click here | | | | The lyrics are very informative as Cham and Alicia |
| "Ghetto Story" is a dancehall/ragga single performed | | | | Keys explain how it felt to live in the ghetto. Cham |
| by dancehall artist Baby Cham signed to Atlantic | | | | says A lot of people like the song for its lyrics and |
| Records. It was the first single to be released off his | | | | overall feel of the song. These are the first two lines in |
| album called Ghetto Story. The song is most known | | | | Cham's opening verse: " I remember those days when |
| for its reggae fusion remix called "Ghetto Story | | | | Hell was my home. And me and Mama bed was a big |
| Chapter 2" featuring Alicia Keys. The single has | | | | piece of foam. " |
| peaked at number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100 | | | | In the offical remix, which also includes singer Akon, he |
| trajectory, number 15 on the Billboards Hot Hip Hop | | | | explains his way of living in the ghetto, and how he |
| R&B Singles, and number 13 on the Billboards Rap | | | | made it, the lines in his opening verse: " See I was poor |
| Tracks. It received heavy airplay on MTV2 and BET, | | | | like many men, and didn't have nothin'. Came to |
| and some airplay on Canada's MuchMusic. The song is | | | | America, trying to make somethin' out of somethin'. |
| about growing up in the ghetto and how it was for | | | | See we Africans we like hunting. Found my way up to |
| Cham in his younger years. The video entered BET's | | | | the top like it wasn't nothin. " |
| 106 & Park at number 9 peaked at number 5, | | | | The song uses the "85" riddim."Ghetto Story"'s video is |
| making it one of the very few reggae videos to reach | | | | the Chapter 2 featuring Alicia Keys. It was shot in |
| the top 5 on that countdown. Another remix features | | | | Jamaica by Sanaa Hamri. It shows the storyline of the |
| singer Akon. Here's my, ghetto story. Been in hell | | | | lyrics and what it was like for Cham and Alicia Keys to |
| through the fire, now, gonna take it higher. Here's my | | | | live in a ghetto area. The unofficial video was put on |
| survival story. So many reasons to sing now, plus now | | | | MTV in late March. The video premiered on BET's 106 |
| we got the keys to the kingdom. " | | | | & Park on August 8, 2006 and entered the |
| These are the lyrics to the intro sung by Alicia Keys. | | | | countdown three weeks later to debut at number nine |
| The overall feel of the song is rage and celebration | | | | and stay there for four days in a row. Eventually it |
| that the two have made it out of the ghetto and out | | | | peaked at number five. |
| of their early struggles. | | | | |