In the ghetto, you think is hard Food and to' up cars Wall to wall dirty carpet in a bucket, hopin you can start it And around to the liquor store Can't get a job get drunk some You betta trippin on dem stereotypes Cause in the ghetto there's a good We ain't starvin like Marvin, see no roach When ya wit the rich folks in the hood You're sittin on watchin big screens Bought by the dope Smokin, and what about the wit the good jobs Savin money, and workin Bought a house for his and kids Ya only got one to live brother got some cocaine You know his face, but don't know his You know he got the sack And sittin on a fat bank cars at his house in the driveway Benz so clean don't roll it fly away 'Cause folks got money in the ghetto yeah you
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
in the ghetto ain't nothin new It's like that, way before you Was even born, get up from the down City for the black folks Say it loud in ya hot Man child in the land I you back to Iceberg Slim And all the that came before him If you a everyday hustler, get money Cause they do to black man ain't funny All the time to put us the pen You get paroled and then send you again All the homies in the hood paid You might left but the money stayed In the ghetto, it ain't all drugs Gettin doin all kinds of stuff rule on the streets is don't get caught Unless your hustle breakin the law And even though folks got it good We on 'em fat in the hood I'm ridin on some ones Smokin dank and it's Ask them fools, cause they There's money in the
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
I got money baby, tell me the price 'Cause Short Dog ain't nice I hit the town wit my boy Ben Franklin Spend fo', get an ounce of then Rich nigga get relaxin If I bust a Ben Frank' get some Andrew Five for a hundred dollar bill You know the math, make a deal On the one bill if you look on the front You find the face of George money baby, that's all I do That's how I Thomas Jefferson is on the two Abraham Lincoln got and died Freed the so they put him on the five And Hamilton, my old friend put his face on the front of the ten These are the dead, From the hood and they The dream for the average minority Make your money get some and a forty I'm on the Eastside like a king Kick watchin fifty inch screens Bounce to the Westside, hit the And spend my money in the
Hey hey hey got to say (They got money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
Nowadays if you say a rap, or play sports You might just up short And they say the same things be a gangster or a dopefiend Get your high school diploma, go to Get a and start makin dollars one thing wrong, and it's a trip Inner schools don't teach 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 graduate and can't spell Dip to the hood and get Slangin rocks to a out bitch No come close to that A few make my pockets fat I make a lot of and it ain't no lie I'll probably 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