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