Money In The Ghetto Lyrics - Get In Where You Fit In - Too $hort

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 

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Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's money in the ghetto) 

Hollywood! Havin money in the ghetto 

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 

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Hey hey hey whatcha got to say (There's money in the ghetto) 

Hollywood! Havin money in the ghetto 

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 

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 whatcha got to say (They got money in the ghetto) 

Hollywood! Havin money in the ghetto