In the ghetto, you think life is Food and to' up cars Wall to dirty orange carpet Sittin in a bucket, hopin you can it And ride to the liquor store Can't get a job get drunk more You betta trippin on dem stereotypes Cause in the ghetto there's a good We starvin like Marvin, won't see no roach When ya chill wit the rich folks in the You're sittin on 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 and kids Ya got one life to live Another got some cocaine You know his face, but don't know his You know he got the sack And sittin on a fat bank Seven cars at his house in the Benz so clean don't roll it fly away 'Cause folks got money in the ghetto yeah you
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
Money in the ghetto nothin new It's been that, way before you Was even born, get up the down stroke Chocolate City for the black Say it loud in ya hot Man child in the promised I take you back to Slim And all the players came before him If you a hustler, get your money Cause they do to black man ain't funny All the time to put us the pen You get paroled and then they send you All the homies in the hood gettin You have left but the money stayed In the ghetto, it ain't all drugs paid doin all kinds of stuff Only on the streets is don't get caught Unless hustle ain't breakin the law And even though rich folks got it We on 'em fat in the hood I'm ridin on gold ones Smokin dank and it's Ask fools, cause they know There's in the ghetto
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the
I got money baby, just tell me the Short Dog ain't nuttin nice I hit the town wit my boy Ben Franklin fo', get an ounce of dank then Rich nigga get relaxin If I bust a Ben get some Andrew Jacksons Five twenties for a hundred bill You know the math, make a deal On the one bill if you look on the front You find the face of George Make 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 put him on the five And Hamilton, my old time put his face on the front of the ten These are the dead, From the and they represent The dream for the average minority Make money get some weed and a forty I'm on the Eastside like a king Kick back watchin fifty inch to the Westside, hit the studio And spend my money in the
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (They got 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 say the same things Don't be a gangster or a Get high school diploma, go to college Get a and start makin dollars Only one wrong, and it's a trip Inner schools don't teach us shit Got us stuck on stupid, S.O.S Can't get nothin, but they payin the rest of fools All around the in the other countries They should be spendin that money here In the of California You graduate and can't diploma Dip to the hood and get Slangin rocks to a smoked out No school'll come close to A few transaction make my 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 still up there's 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