In the ghetto, you think is hard stamps and to' up cars Wall to dirty orange carpet in a bucket, hopin you can start it And ride to the liquor store get a job get drunk some more You stop trippin on dem stereotypes Cause in the there's a good life We ain't starvin Marvin, won't see no roach When ya chill wit the rich folks in the You're on leather watchin big screens Bought by the fiends Smokin, and what about the brother wit the jobs money, and workin hard Bought a house for his wife and Ya only got one life to Another brother got some You his face, but don't know his name You he got the sack mayn And he's on a fat bank Seven cars at his in the driveway Benz so don't roll it just fly away 'Cause folks got in the ghetto yeah you know
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto
Money in the ain't nothin new It's been like that, way you Was born, get up from the down stroke Chocolate for the black folks Say it loud in ya hot Man child in the land I take you back to Iceberg And all the that came before him If you a hustler, get your money what they do to black man ain't funny All the time to put us the pen You get paroled and they send you again All the in the hood gettin paid You might have left but the stayed In the ghetto, it ain't all drugs Gettin paid doin all of stuff rule on the streets is don't get caught Unless your hustle ain't the law And even though folks got it good We sittin on 'em fat in the I'm ridin on some ones Smokin dank and potent Ask them fools, cause they There's money in the
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
I got money baby, just tell me the 'Cause Dog ain't nuttin nice I hit the town wit my boy Ben Franklin Spend fo', get an ounce of dank Rich nigga get relaxin If I a Ben Frank' get some Andrew Jacksons twenties for a hundred dollar bill You know the math, make a deal On the one dollar bill if you on the front You find the face of Washington money baby, that's all I do That's how I know Jefferson is on the two Abraham got shot and died Freed the slaves so they put him on the And Hamilton, my old time put his face on the front of the ten These are the dead, the hood and they represent The dream for the average minority Make your money get weed and a forty I'm on the Eastside like a king back watchin fifty inch screens Bounce to the Westside, hit the And spend my money in the
Hey hey hey got to say (They got money in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto
Nowadays if you can't say a rap, or play You might just come up And they always say the things Don't be a or a dopefiend Get high school diploma, go to college Get a and start makin dollars one thing wrong, and it's a trip Inner city schools teach us shit Got us on stupid, straight S.O.S Can't get nothin, but payin the rest of them fools All around the in the other countries They should be spendin that right here In the of California You and can't spell diploma Dip to the hood and get Slangin rocks to a smoked out No school'll come close to A few transaction my pockets fat I a lot of money and it ain't no lie probably ball til the day I die And if I didn't, so I bet you I'd come up 'Cause a whole lot of money in the ghetto yeah you know
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (They got in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto