Money in the Ghetto

In the ghetto, you think life is hard
 Food stamps and to' up cars
 Wall to wall dirty orange carpet
 Sittin' in a bucket, hopin' you can start it
 And ride around to the liquor store
 Can't get a job get drunk some more
 You betta stop trippin' on dem stereotypes
 'Cause in the ghetto there's a good life
 We ain't starvin like Marvin, won't see no roach
 When ya chill wit the rich folks in the hood
 You're sittin' on leather watchin' big screens
 Bought by the dope fiends
 Smokin, and what about the brother wit the good jobs
 Savin money, and workin hard
 Bought a house for his wife and kids
 Ya only got one life to live
 Another brother got some cocaine
 You know his face, but don't know his name
 You know he got the sack mayn
 And he's sittin on a fat bank
 Seven cars at his house in the driveway
 Benz so clean don't roll it just fly away
 'Cause folks got money in the ghetto yeah you know
 Hey hey hey, whatcha got to say? (There's money in the ghetto)
 Hollywood! Havin' money in the ghetto, uhh
 
 Money in the ghetto ain't nothin new
 It's been like that, way before you
 Was even born, get up from the down stroke
 Chocolate City for the black folks
 Say it loud in ya hot pants
 Man child in the promised land
 I take you back to Iceberg Slim
 And all the players that came before him
 If you a everyday hustler, get your money
 Cause what they do to black man ain't funny
 All the time tryin to put us the pen
 You get paroled and then they send you again
 All the homies in the hood gettin' paid
 You might have left but the money stayed
 In the ghetto, it ain't all about drugs
 Gettin' paid doin all kinds of stuff
 Only rule on the streets is don't get caught
 Unless your hustle ain't breakin' the law
 And even though rich folks got it good
 We sittin' on 'em fat in the hood
 I'm ridin' on some gold ones
 Smokin dank and it's potent
 Ask them fools, cause they know
 There's money in the ghetto
 Hey hey hey, whatcha got to say? (There's money in the ghetto)
 Hollywood! Havin' money in the ghetto, uhh
 I got money baby, just tell me the price
 'Cause Short Dog ain't nuttin' nice
 I always hit the town wit my boy Ben Franklin
 Spend fo', get an ounce of dank then
 Rich nigga get high relaxin'
 If I bust a Ben Frank' get some Andrew Jacksons
 Five twenties for a hundred dollar bill
 You know the math, let's make a deal
 On the one dollar bill if you look on the front
 You find the face of George Washington
 Make money baby, that's all I do
 That's how I know Thomas Jefferson is on the two
 Abraham Lincoln got shot and died
 Freed the slaves so they put him on the five
 And Hamilton, my old time friend
 They put his face on the front of the ten
 These are the dead, presidents
 From the hood and they represent
 The American dream for the average minority
 Make your money get some weed and a forty
 I'm on the Eastside livin' like a king
 Kick back watchin' fifty inch screens
 Bounce to the Westside, hit the studio
 And spend my money in the ghetto
 Hey hey hey whatcha got to say? (They got money in the ghetto)
 Hollywood! Havin' money in the ghetto, uhh
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 Nowadays if you can't say a rap, or play sports
 You might just come up short
 And they always say the same things
 Don't be a gangster or a dope fiend
 Get your high school diploma, go to college
 Get a degree and start makin' dollars
 Only one thing wrong, and it's a trip
 Inner city schools don't teach us shit
 Got us stuck on stupid, straight S.O.S
 Can't get nothin, but they payin' the rest of them fools
 All around the world in the other countries
 They should be spendin' that money right here
 In the state of California
 You graduate and can't spell diploma
 Dip to the hood and get rich
 Slangin' rocks to a smoked out bitch
 No school'll come close to that
 A few transaction make my pockets fat
 I make a lot of money and it ain't no lie
 I'll probably ball til the day I die
 And if I didn't, so what?
 I bet you I'd still come up
 'Cause there's a whole lot of money in the ghetto yeah you know
 Hey hey hey whatcha got to say? (They got money in the ghetto)
 Hollywood! Havin' money in the ghetto, uhh