In the ghetto, you think life is Food stamps and to' up Wall to wall orange carpet Sittin in a bucket, hopin you can it And around to the liquor store Can't get a job get drunk more You stop trippin on dem stereotypes Cause in the there's a good life We ain't starvin like Marvin, see no roach When ya chill wit the folks in the hood You're sittin on leather watchin big Bought by the fiends Smokin, and what about the brother wit the jobs Savin money, and workin Bought a for his wife and kids Ya got one life to live Another brother got cocaine You know his face, but know his name You know he got the mayn And sittin on a fat bank cars at his house in the driveway Benz so don't roll it just fly away 'Cause folks got money in the yeah you know
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
Money in the ain't nothin new been like that, way before you Was even born, get up from the stroke Chocolate for the black folks Say it loud in ya hot Man in the promised land I you back to Iceberg Slim And all the players that before him If you a everyday hustler, get your Cause what they do to black man funny All the tryin to put us the pen You get paroled and then they send you All the homies in the gettin paid You might have left but the stayed In the ghetto, it ain't all drugs paid 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, they know There's in the ghetto
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 Short Dog ain't nice I always hit the town wit my boy Ben Spend fo', get an of dank then Rich nigga get high If I bust a Ben Frank' get some Andrew Five twenties for a dollar bill You the math, let's make a deal On the one bill if you look on the front You find the face of Washington money baby, that's all I do That's how I Thomas Jefferson is on the two Abraham Lincoln got and died Freed the slaves so they put him on the And Hamilton, my old friend They put his on the front of the ten are the dead, presidents From the hood and they The American dream for the minority Make your money get some weed and a I'm on the Eastside like a king Kick back watchin fifty inch Bounce to the Westside, hit the And my money 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 sports You might come up short And they say the same things be a gangster or a dopefiend Get your school diploma, go to college Get a and start makin dollars Only one thing wrong, and it's a Inner city schools don't us shit Got us stuck on stupid, S.O.S Can't get nothin, but payin the rest of them fools All around the in the other countries They should be spendin that right here In the state of You graduate and can't diploma Dip to the hood and get rocks to a smoked out bitch No school'll come close to A few transaction my pockets fat I make a lot of money and it no lie I'll 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 money in the