In the ghetto, you life is hard Food stamps and to' up Wall to wall dirty orange in a bucket, hopin you can start it And ride around to the store Can't get a job get drunk more You betta stop trippin on dem Cause in the there's a good life We ain't starvin 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 fiends Smokin, and about the brother wit the good jobs Savin money, and hard Bought a for his wife and kids Ya only got one to live Another brother got cocaine You know his face, but don't know his You he got the sack mayn And sittin on a fat bank cars 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! money in the ghetto
Money in the ghetto ain't new It's been like that, way you Was even born, get up from the stroke Chocolate City for the folks Say it in ya hot pants Man child in the promised I take you to Iceberg Slim And all the players that before him If you a everyday hustler, get money Cause what 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 hood paid You might have left but the money In the ghetto, it all about drugs Gettin paid doin all of stuff Only rule on the streets is don't get your hustle ain't breakin the law And even though folks got it good We on 'em fat in the hood I'm on some gold ones Smokin dank and potent Ask fools, cause they know There's in the ghetto
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! money 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 Spend fo', get an ounce of dank Rich get high relaxin If I bust a Ben Frank' get some Andrew twenties for a hundred dollar bill You the math, let's make a deal On the one dollar if you look on the front You find the face of George Make baby, that's all I do That's how I Thomas Jefferson is on the two Lincoln got shot and died Freed the so they put him on the five And Hamilton, my old friend They put his face on the of the ten are the dead, presidents From the and they represent The American dream for the minority Make money get some weed and a forty I'm on the Eastside like a king back 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 money in the
if you can't say a rap, or play sports 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 degree and start dollars Only one thing wrong, and a trip Inner schools don't teach us shit Got us on stupid, straight S.O.S Can't get nothin, but they payin the rest of them All around the world in the countries They should be spendin that right here In the of California You graduate and can't spell Dip to the hood and get Slangin rocks to a out bitch No school'll come to that A few transaction make my fat I make a lot of and it ain't no lie probably ball til the day I die And if I didn't, so I bet you I'd come up 'Cause 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 in the ghetto