In the ghetto, you think life is Food and to' up cars to wall dirty orange carpet Sittin in a bucket, you can start it And ride around to the store Can't get a job get some more You stop trippin on dem stereotypes Cause in the ghetto a good life We ain't like Marvin, won't see no roach ya chill wit the rich folks in the hood You're sittin on leather big screens Bought by the dope Smokin, and about the brother wit the good jobs money, and workin hard Bought a house for his and kids Ya only got one life to brother got some cocaine You know his face, but don't his name You he got the sack mayn And sittin on a fat bank Seven at his house in the driveway Benz so clean don't roll it just fly 'Cause folks got money in the ghetto you know
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
Money in the ghetto nothin new It's been like that, way you Was even born, get up from the stroke Chocolate City for the black Say it in ya hot pants Man in the promised land I you back to Iceberg Slim And all the players that came him If you a hustler, get your money Cause what they do to black man funny All the tryin 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 kinds of Only on the streets is don't get caught your hustle ain't breakin the law And even though folks got it good We sittin on 'em fat in the I'm on some gold ones Smokin dank and it's Ask fools, cause they know money in the ghetto
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto
I got baby, just tell me the price 'Cause Short Dog nuttin nice I always hit the town wit my boy Ben Spend fo', get an of dank then nigga get high relaxin If I bust a Ben Frank' get Andrew Jacksons Five twenties for a hundred bill You the math, let's make a deal On the one dollar if you look on the front You the face of George Washington money baby, that's all I do That's how I know Thomas 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 your get some weed and a forty I'm on the Eastside like a king Kick back watchin fifty inch Bounce to the Westside, hit the And my money in the ghetto
Hey hey hey got to say (They got money in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto
if you can't say a rap, or play sports You just come up short And they always say the same Don't be a or a dopefiend Get high school diploma, go to college Get a and start makin dollars Only one thing wrong, and it's a Inner city don't teach us shit Got us on stupid, straight S.O.S Can't get nothin, but they payin the of them fools All around the world in the other They should be that money right here In the state of You graduate and can't diploma Dip to the hood and get rocks to a smoked out bitch No come close to that A few make my pockets fat I make a lot of money and it no lie I'll ball til the day I die And if I didn't, so I bet you I'd still up 'Cause there's a whole lot of in the ghetto yeah you know
Hey hey hey got to say (They got money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto