In the ghetto, you think life is stamps and to' up cars Wall to dirty orange carpet Sittin in a bucket, hopin you can it And around to the liquor store Can't get a job get drunk some You betta stop trippin on dem in the ghetto there's a good life We ain't starvin Marvin, won't see no roach When ya chill wit the rich folks in the You're sittin on leather big screens by the dope fiends Smokin, and what about the brother wit the jobs Savin money, and hard Bought a house for his wife and Ya only got one to live Another got some 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 roll it just fly folks got money in the ghetto yeah you know
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the
Money in the ghetto nothin new been like that, way before you Was even born, get up the down stroke Chocolate City for the black Say it in ya hot pants Man child in the promised I take you to Iceberg Slim And all the players that came him If you a hustler, get your money Cause what they do to black man 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 stayed In the ghetto, it all about drugs paid doin all kinds of stuff Only rule on the streets is get caught Unless hustle ain't breakin the law And even rich folks got it good We on 'em fat in the hood I'm ridin on gold ones Smokin dank and potent Ask them fools, cause they money in the ghetto
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto
I got money baby, just tell me the 'Cause Short Dog nuttin nice I hit the town wit my boy Ben Franklin Spend fo', get an of dank then nigga get high relaxin If I bust a Ben Frank' get some Andrew Five twenties for a hundred dollar You know the math, let's a deal On the one dollar bill if you on the front You find the face of George Make baby, that's all I do That's how I know Jefferson is on the two Abraham got shot and died Freed the slaves so they put him on the And Hamilton, my old time They put his on the front of the ten are the dead, presidents From the hood and represent The American dream for the minority Make money get some weed and a forty I'm on the Eastside livin a king back watchin fifty inch screens Bounce to the Westside, hit the And spend my money in the
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (They got in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the
Nowadays if you can't say a rap, or play You might just up short And they say the same things Don't be a or a dopefiend Get your high school diploma, go to Get a degree and makin dollars Only one thing wrong, and it's a Inner city schools teach us shit Got us stuck on stupid, 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 money here In the of California You graduate and can't spell Dip to the hood and get Slangin rocks to a smoked out No school'll come close to A few make 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 still up 'Cause there's a whole lot of in the ghetto yeah you know
Hey hey hey got to say (They got money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the