In the ghetto, you life is hard Food stamps and to' up Wall to wall orange carpet in a bucket, hopin you can start it And around to the liquor store get a job get drunk some more You betta trippin on dem stereotypes Cause in the ghetto a good life We ain't starvin like Marvin, 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 what about the brother wit the good Savin money, and hard a house for his wife and kids Ya only got one to live Another brother got some 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 it just fly away folks got money in the ghetto yeah you know
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
Money in the ghetto ain't new been like 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 land I take you to Iceberg Slim And all the players that came him If you a everyday hustler, get money Cause what they do to man ain't funny All the tryin to put us the pen You get paroled and then they send you All the in the hood gettin paid You might left but the money stayed In the ghetto, it all about drugs Gettin paid all kinds of stuff Only rule on the streets is don't get Unless your ain't breakin the law And even rich folks got it good We sittin on 'em fat in the I'm on some gold ones dank and it's potent Ask them fools, they know money in the ghetto
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the
I got money baby, tell me the price Short Dog ain't nuttin nice I always hit the town wit my boy Ben Spend fo', get an of dank then Rich get high relaxin If I bust a Ben get some Andrew Jacksons Five twenties for a dollar bill You the math, let's make a deal On the one dollar if you look on the front You find the of George Washington Make money baby, all I do how I know Thomas Jefferson is on the two Abraham Lincoln got shot and 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 money get some weed and a forty I'm on the Eastside livin like a Kick watchin fifty 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! Havin in the ghetto
Nowadays if you can't say a rap, or sports You might just up short And they always say the same Don't be a or a dopefiend Get your school diploma, go to college Get a degree and start makin Only one thing wrong, and it's a Inner city schools don't us shit Got us on stupid, straight 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 and can't spell diploma Dip to the and get rich rocks to a smoked out bitch No school'll come close to A few transaction make my fat I a lot of money 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 'Cause there's a whole lot of money in the ghetto yeah you
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (They got in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto