In the ghetto, you life is hard Food and to' up cars Wall to wall dirty carpet in a bucket, hopin you can start it And around to the liquor store get a job get drunk some more You betta stop trippin on dem Cause in the ghetto there's a life We ain't starvin Marvin, won't see no roach When ya chill wit the rich folks in the You're sittin on watchin big screens by the dope fiends Smokin, and what the brother wit the good jobs Savin money, and workin Bought a house for his wife and Ya only got one life to Another brother got cocaine You know his face, but 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 don't roll 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 nothin new It's been that, way before you Was even born, get up the down stroke Chocolate City for the folks Say it loud in ya hot Man child in the promised I take you back to Slim And all the that came before him If you a everyday hustler, get your Cause what they do to black man ain't All the time to put us the pen You get paroled and then send you again All the homies in the gettin paid You might have left but the money 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 though rich folks got it good We on 'em fat in the hood I'm ridin on some ones dank and it's potent Ask fools, cause they know money in the ghetto
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
I got money baby, tell me the price 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 high If I a Ben Frank' get some Andrew Jacksons Five for a hundred dollar bill You know the math, let's make a On the one bill if you look on the front You find the face of George Make money baby, all I do how I know 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 they The American dream for the minority Make money get some weed and a forty I'm on the Eastside livin a king Kick back watchin inch screens Bounce to the Westside, hit the And my money in the ghetto
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 always say the same be a gangster or a dopefiend Get your high diploma, go to college Get a and start makin dollars one thing wrong, and it's a trip Inner city don't teach us shit Got us on stupid, straight S.O.S Can't get nothin, but they payin the rest of fools All around the world in the countries They should be spendin that money right In the of California You graduate and can't spell Dip to the hood and get Slangin to a smoked out bitch No school'll close to that A few transaction make my fat I make a lot of money and it no lie probably ball 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 got to say (They got money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the