In the ghetto, you think life is Food stamps and to' up Wall to dirty orange carpet Sittin in a bucket, you can start it And ride around to the store get a job get drunk some more You betta stop on dem stereotypes Cause in the ghetto there's a life We starvin like Marvin, won't see no roach When ya chill wit the rich folks in the You're on leather watchin big screens by the dope fiends Smokin, and what about the brother wit the jobs money, and workin hard Bought a house for his and kids Ya only got one life to Another brother got some You know his face, but don't know his You know he got the mayn And sittin on a fat bank Seven cars at his house in the Benz so clean don't it just fly away 'Cause folks got money in the ghetto yeah you
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 like that, way before you Was even born, get up from the down City for the black folks Say it in ya hot pants Man child in the promised I take you back to Slim And all the that came before him If you a everyday hustler, get money Cause they do to black man ain't funny All the time to put us the pen You get paroled and then they you again All the homies in the gettin paid You have left but the money stayed In the ghetto, it ain't all about Gettin paid doin all kinds of Only rule on the is don't get caught Unless your hustle ain't the law And though rich folks got it good We sittin on 'em fat in the I'm ridin on some gold Smokin and it's potent 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, just tell me the 'Cause Dog ain't nuttin nice I always hit the 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 dollar bill You know the math, make a deal On the one dollar bill if you 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 Lincoln 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 hood and represent The American dream for the average Make your money get weed and a forty I'm on the Eastside livin a king Kick back watchin fifty 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! Havin money in the
Nowadays if you can't say a rap, or sports You just come up short And they always say the same Don't be a or a dopefiend Get your school diploma, go to college Get a and start makin dollars one thing wrong, and it's a trip Inner city schools don't us shit Got us stuck on stupid, S.O.S get nothin, but they payin the rest of them fools All around the in the other countries should be spendin that money right here In the of California You graduate and spell diploma Dip to the and get rich Slangin rocks to a smoked out No come close to that A few make my pockets 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 come 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 money in the