In the ghetto, you think life is Food and to' up cars Wall to wall dirty carpet Sittin in a bucket, you can start it And ride around to the liquor get a job get drunk some more You betta stop trippin on dem Cause in the ghetto there's a good We ain't starvin like Marvin, see no roach When ya chill wit the rich folks in the You're on leather 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 life to Another brother got some You know his face, but don't know his You know he got the mayn And he's on a fat bank Seven cars at his in the driveway so clean don't roll it just fly away 'Cause folks got money in the yeah you know
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto
Money in the ghetto ain't new It's been like that, way you Was born, get up from the down stroke Chocolate City for the folks Say it in ya hot pants Man in the promised land I you back to Iceberg Slim And all the players came before him If you a everyday hustler, get your Cause what they do to man ain't funny All the time to put us the pen You get paroled and then they you again All the homies in the gettin paid You might have but the money stayed In the ghetto, it ain't all about Gettin paid doin all of stuff Only on the streets is don't get caught Unless your hustle breakin the law And even though rich got it good We on 'em fat in the hood I'm ridin on gold ones dank and it's potent Ask them fools, cause know There's in the ghetto
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto
I got money baby, just 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 nigga get relaxin If I a Ben Frank' get some Andrew Jacksons Five twenties for a dollar bill You know the math, let's make a On the one dollar bill if you on the front You find the of George Washington Make money baby, all I do That's how I know Thomas is on the two Abraham Lincoln got and died the slaves so they put him on the five And Hamilton, my old time put his face on the front of the ten These are the dead, the hood and they represent The dream for the average minority Make your money get some and a forty I'm on the Eastside livin a king Kick back watchin fifty screens to the Westside, hit the studio 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 play You might just come up And they say the same things Don't be a gangster or a Get high school diploma, go to college Get a degree and start makin Only one thing wrong, and it's a Inner schools don't teach us shit Got us on stupid, straight S.O.S Can't get nothin, but they payin the of them fools All around the in the other countries They should be spendin that right here In the state of You graduate and spell diploma Dip to the and get rich Slangin rocks to a smoked out No school'll close to that A few transaction make my fat I make a lot of and it ain't 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 money in the ghetto yeah you
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (They got in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin in the ghetto