In the ghetto, you think life is Food stamps and to' up Wall to wall orange carpet Sittin in a bucket, you can start it And ride 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 like Marvin, see no roach When ya chill wit the folks in the hood You're sittin on leather big screens Bought by the fiends Smokin, and what about the brother wit the jobs Savin money, and hard Bought a house for his and kids Ya only got one life to Another got some cocaine You know his face, but know his name You know he got the sack And he's 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 you know
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto
Money in the ghetto nothin new It's like that, way before you Was even born, get up the down stroke Chocolate for the black folks 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 everyday hustler, get your Cause what they do to man ain't funny All the tryin to put us the pen You get paroled and then send you again All the homies in the hood gettin You might have but the money stayed In the ghetto, it all about drugs Gettin paid doin all of stuff rule on the streets is don't get caught Unless hustle ain't breakin the law And even though rich got it good We on 'em fat in the hood I'm on some gold ones Smokin dank and it's Ask them fools, they know 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, just me the price 'Cause Dog ain't nuttin 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 Jacksons Five twenties for a hundred bill You know the math, make a deal On the one bill if you look on the front You find the of George Washington Make baby, that's all I do how I know Thomas Jefferson is on the two Abraham Lincoln got shot and Freed the slaves so put him on the five And Hamilton, my old time They put his face on the of the ten These are the dead, From the and they represent The American for the average minority Make money get some weed and a forty I'm on the livin like a king Kick back fifty inch screens Bounce to the Westside, hit the And spend my in the ghetto
Hey hey hey got to say (They got money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the
Nowadays if you can't say a rap, or play You might come up short And they always say the same Don't be a or a dopefiend Get your school diploma, go to college Get a degree and makin dollars Only one wrong, and it's a trip Inner city schools teach us shit Got us stuck on stupid, S.O.S Can't get nothin, but they the rest of them fools All around the world in the other should be spendin that money right here In the of California You and can't spell diploma Dip to the and get rich Slangin to a smoked out bitch No school'll come close to A few transaction make my fat I a lot of money 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 still up 'Cause there's a whole lot of money in the ghetto yeah you
Hey hey hey got to say (They got money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the