In the ghetto, you think is hard Food stamps and to' up Wall to wall orange carpet Sittin in a bucket, you can start it And ride around to the liquor Can't get a job get some more You stop trippin on dem stereotypes in the ghetto 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 on leather watchin big screens Bought by the fiends Smokin, and what about the wit the good jobs Savin money, and hard Bought a for his wife and kids Ya got one life to live Another got some cocaine You know his face, but don't know his You he got the sack mayn And he's on a fat bank Seven cars at his in the driveway Benz so don't roll it just fly away folks got money in the ghetto yeah you know
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in the ghetto ain't nothin new It's been that, way before you Was even born, get up the down stroke Chocolate City for the folks Say it in ya hot pants Man in the promised land I take you back to Iceberg And all the players came before him If you a everyday hustler, get money Cause what they do to black man funny All the tryin to put us the pen You get paroled and then send you again All the homies in the gettin paid You have left but the money stayed In the ghetto, it ain't all drugs Gettin paid all kinds of stuff Only rule on the streets is get caught your hustle ain't breakin the law And even though folks got it good We sittin on 'em fat in the I'm ridin on some ones Smokin and it's potent Ask them fools, they know There's money in the
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I got baby, just tell me the price 'Cause Short Dog ain't nuttin I hit the town wit my boy Ben Franklin fo', get an ounce of dank then Rich get high relaxin If I bust a Ben Frank' get Andrew Jacksons Five twenties for a hundred dollar You know the math, let's make a On the one dollar bill if you look on the You the face of George Washington money baby, that's all I do That's how I Thomas Jefferson is on the two Abraham got shot and died the slaves so they put him on the five And Hamilton, my old friend They put his on the front of the ten These are the dead, From the and they represent The dream for the average minority Make your money get weed and a forty I'm on the Eastside like a king Kick back watchin fifty inch to the Westside, hit the studio And spend my in the ghetto
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if you can't say a rap, or play sports You might just up short And they always say the things Don't be a gangster or a Get your high diploma, go to college Get a degree and start makin Only one thing wrong, and a trip Inner city schools don't us shit Got us on stupid, straight S.O.S Can't get nothin, but they payin the rest of them All around the in the other countries They should be spendin that money here In the state of You and can't spell diploma Dip to the hood and get Slangin to a smoked out bitch No school'll come close to A few make my pockets fat I a lot of money 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
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