In the ghetto, you life is hard Food stamps and to' up Wall to wall orange carpet Sittin in a bucket, you can start it And around to the liquor store get a job get drunk some more You betta stop 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 in the hood You're sittin on leather big screens by the dope fiends Smokin, and what about the brother wit the jobs Savin money, and workin Bought a for his wife and kids Ya only got one to live brother got some cocaine You his face, but don't know his name You he got the sack mayn And he's sittin on a fat Seven cars at his house in the Benz so clean don't roll it just fly 'Cause got money in the ghetto yeah you know
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the
Money in the ghetto nothin new It's like that, way before you Was born, get up from the down stroke City for the black folks Say it in ya hot pants Man child in the promised I you back to Iceberg Slim And all the players came before him If you a everyday hustler, get money Cause what they do to black man ain't All the tryin to put us the pen You get paroled and they send you again All the homies in the hood paid You have left but the money stayed In the ghetto, it ain't all about Gettin doin all kinds of stuff rule on the streets is don't get caught Unless your hustle breakin the law And even though rich got it good We on 'em fat in the hood I'm ridin on some ones Smokin dank and it's Ask fools, cause they know There's money in the
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto
I got money baby, tell me the price 'Cause Short Dog ain't nuttin I always hit the wit my boy Ben Franklin fo', get an ounce of dank then Rich nigga get relaxin If I a Ben Frank' get some Andrew Jacksons Five twenties for a hundred bill You the math, let's make a deal On the one dollar bill if you on the front You find the face of George Make money baby, all I do That's how I Thomas Jefferson is on the two Abraham Lincoln got and died Freed the slaves so they put him on the And Hamilton, my old friend put his face on the front of the ten These are the dead, From the and they represent The American dream for the minority Make money get some weed and a forty I'm on the livin like a king Kick back fifty inch screens 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
Nowadays if you can't say a rap, or sports You just come up short And they always say the things Don't be a gangster or a Get your school diploma, go to college Get a degree and makin dollars Only one wrong, and it's a trip Inner city schools teach us shit Got us stuck on stupid, S.O.S Can't get nothin, but they payin the of them fools All around the world in the countries They be spendin that money right here In the state of You graduate and spell diploma Dip to the and get rich rocks to a smoked out bitch No come close to that A few transaction 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 in the ghetto