In the ghetto, you think is hard stamps and to' up cars Wall to wall dirty orange in a bucket, hopin you can start it And ride around to the store Can't get a job get some more You betta stop trippin on dem Cause in the ghetto a good life We ain't starvin like Marvin, won't see no When ya chill wit the folks in the hood You're on leather watchin big screens Bought by the fiends Smokin, and about the brother wit the good jobs Savin money, and hard a house for his wife and kids Ya only got one to live Another brother got cocaine You his face, but don't know his name You know he got the sack And sittin on a fat bank Seven cars at his house in the so clean don't roll it just fly away 'Cause folks got money in the ghetto yeah you
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto
Money in the ghetto nothin new been like that, way before you Was born, get up from the down stroke Chocolate for the black folks Say it loud in ya hot Man in the promised land I you back to Iceberg Slim And all the players that 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 they send you again All the homies in the hood gettin You might left but the money stayed In the ghetto, it ain't all about Gettin paid doin all kinds of Only rule on the streets is don't get Unless your hustle breakin the law And even though rich folks got it We on 'em fat in the hood I'm on some gold ones Smokin dank and potent Ask them fools, cause they There's in the ghetto
Hey hey hey got to say (There's money in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto
I got money baby, tell me the price 'Cause Short Dog ain't nuttin I always hit the town wit my boy Ben Spend fo', get an ounce of dank Rich nigga get relaxin If I a Ben Frank' get some Andrew Jacksons Five twenties for a hundred bill You the math, let's make a deal On the one dollar if you look on the front You find the of George Washington Make money baby, all I do how I know Thomas Jefferson is on the two Abraham Lincoln got and died Freed the slaves so they put him on the And Hamilton, my old friend put his face on the front of the ten These are the dead, From the and they represent The dream for the average 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 got to say (They got money in the ghetto) Hollywood! Havin money in the
Nowadays if you say a rap, or play sports You might just come up And always say the same things be a gangster or a dopefiend Get your high diploma, go to college Get a degree and start makin one thing wrong, and it's a trip Inner city schools don't teach us Got us on stupid, straight S.O.S Can't get nothin, but they the rest of them fools All around the in the other countries They should be spendin that right here In the of California You graduate and spell diploma Dip to the hood and get Slangin rocks to a smoked out No school'll come close to A few transaction make my fat I make a lot of and it ain't no lie probably 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 you know
Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (They got in the ghetto) Hollywood! money in the ghetto