In the ghetto, you think is hard stamps and to' up cars Wall to wall dirty carpet in a bucket, hopin you can start it And ride around to the liquor get a job get drunk some more You betta trippin on dem stereotypes Cause in the ghetto there's a life We starvin like Marvin, won't see no roach ya chill wit the rich folks in the hood You're sittin on watchin big screens Bought by the dope Smokin, and what about the brother wit the jobs Savin money, and workin Bought a house for his wife and Ya only got one life to Another brother got some You know his face, but don't know his 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 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 ghetto ain't new It's been like that, way you Was even born, get up the down stroke City for the black folks Say it loud in ya hot Man child in the land I take you to Iceberg Slim And all the players 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 then 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 doin all kinds of stuff Only on the streets is don't get caught Unless hustle ain't breakin the law And even though folks got it good We on 'em fat in the hood I'm ridin on some gold Smokin dank and potent Ask them fools, cause know There's money in the
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! money 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 then Rich nigga get relaxin If I bust a Ben Frank' get Andrew Jacksons Five twenties for a dollar bill You know the math, let's a deal On the one dollar bill if you on the front You the face of George Washington money baby, that's all I do That's how I Thomas Jefferson is on the two Abraham Lincoln got shot and 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 hood and represent The American for the average minority Make your money get weed and a forty I'm on the Eastside like a king Kick back fifty inch screens Bounce to the Westside, hit the And spend my in the ghetto
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 just come up short And they say the same things Don't be a gangster or a Get your high school diploma, go to Get a and start makin dollars one thing 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 the rest of them fools All the world in the other countries They should be spendin money right here In the of California You graduate and can't diploma Dip to the and get rich Slangin rocks to a out bitch No school'll close to that A few transaction make my fat I make a lot of and it ain't 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 lot of money in the ghetto yeah you know
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (They got in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto