In the ghetto, you life is hard Food and to' up cars Wall to wall dirty carpet in a bucket, hopin you can start it And ride around to the liquor Can't get a job get drunk some You stop trippin on dem stereotypes Cause in the there's a good life We ain't like Marvin, won't see no roach When ya chill wit the rich folks in the You're sittin on leather watchin big by the dope fiends Smokin, and what the brother wit the good jobs money, and workin hard Bought a house for his and kids Ya only got one life to Another brother got cocaine You know his face, but don't his name You know he got the sack And he's sittin on a fat cars at his house in the driveway Benz so clean don't roll it fly away 'Cause got money in the ghetto yeah you know
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
Money in the ghetto ain't new It's been like that, way you Was even born, get up from the down Chocolate City for the folks Say it loud in ya hot Man child in the promised I take you to Iceberg Slim And all the players that came him If you a everyday hustler, get your Cause they do to black man ain't funny All the tryin to put us the pen You get paroled and then send you again All the homies in the hood paid You have left but the money stayed In the ghetto, it all about drugs Gettin paid doin all of stuff Only rule on the is don't get caught Unless your ain't breakin the law And though rich folks got it good We sittin on 'em fat in the I'm ridin on gold ones Smokin and it's potent Ask them fools, they know money in the ghetto
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
I got money baby, tell me the price 'Cause Short Dog ain't nice I always hit the town wit my boy Ben Spend fo', get an ounce of dank Rich nigga get high If I bust a Ben get some Andrew Jacksons Five for a hundred dollar bill You know the math, let's make a On the one dollar if you look on the front You the face of George Washington Make money baby, all I do That's how I Thomas Jefferson is on the two Lincoln got shot and died Freed the so they put him on the five And Hamilton, my old time They put his face on the of the ten These are the dead, From the and they represent The American for the average minority Make your money get some and a forty I'm on the Eastside livin like a Kick back watchin fifty inch Bounce to the Westside, hit the And spend my in the ghetto
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (They got in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the
if you can't say a rap, or play sports You might come up short And they always say the same Don't be a or a dopefiend Get your high diploma, go to college Get a degree and start dollars Only one wrong, and it's a trip Inner city schools don't us shit Got us stuck on stupid, S.O.S Can't get nothin, but they payin the rest of them All around the world in the countries They should be spendin money right here In the state of You graduate and can't spell Dip to the and get rich Slangin rocks to a smoked out No school'll come close to A few make my pockets fat I make a lot of and it ain't no lie I'll probably til the day I die And if I didn't, so I bet you I'd come up there's a whole lot of money in the ghetto yeah you know
Hey hey hey got to say (They got money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the