Money in the Ghetto
Too Short

In the ghetto, you think life is hard
Food stamps and to' up cars
Wall to wall dirty on carpet
Sit in a buckethopin' 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 and won't see no roach
When ya chill wit the rich folks in the hood
Ya sittin' on leather watchin' big screens
Bought by the dope fiends

Smokin' and what about the brother wit the good jobs
Save money and workin' hard
Bought a house for his wife and kids
Ya only got one life to live

I know a brother dat got some cocaine
Ya know his face but don't know his name
Ya know he got the sack man
And he's sittin' on a phat bank

Sellin' cars at his house in the driveway
Being so clean don't roll it just fly away
'Cause folks got money in the ghetto
Yea you know

Hey, hey, hey
What cha got to say
It's money in the ghetto
Hollywood
Havin' money in the ghetto

Money in the ghetto ain't nothin' new
It's been like dat 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 promise land
I take ya back to Iceberg's land
And all the playas that came before him

If you a everyday hustler, get cha money
'Cause what they do to black man ain't funny
All the time tryin' to put us the pen
You get parole and then they send ya again

All the homies in the hood gettin' paid
You might have left but the money stayed
In the ghetto it ain't all 'bout drugs
Gettin' paid doin' all kinds of stuff

Only rule on the street is don't get caught
Unless ya hustle ain't breakin' the law
And even though rich folks got it good
We're sittin' on it phat in the hood

I'm ridin' dem gold ones
Smokin' dank and it's potent
Ask dem fools 'cause they know
It's money in' the ghetto

Hey, hey, hey
What cha got to say
It's money in the ghetto
Hollywood
Havin' money in the ghetto

I got money baby, just tell me the price
'Cause Short Dawg ain't nuttin' nice
I always hit the town wit my boy Ben Franklin
Spend fo get an ounce a dank then

Rich nigga get high relaxin'
And if I bust a Ben Frank get some Andrew Jacksons
Five twenties for a hundred dollar bill
You know the math let's make deal

On a one dollar bill if ya look on the front
Ya find the face of George Washington
Make money baby dat's all I do
Dat'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 how much in 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 some money get some weed and a forty

I'm on the east side livin' like a king
Kick back watch a fifty inch screens
Bounce to the west and hit studio
And spend my money in the ghetto

Hey, hey, hey
What cha got to say
They got money in the ghetto
Hollywood
Havin' money in the ghetto

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 dopefiend

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
What cha got to say
They got money in the ghetto
Hollywood
Havin' money in the ghetto


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