Kunci: Eb major
Verse 1
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In
the ghetto
You think life is hard
Food stamps and tore up cars
Em
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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
Em
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You better stop trippin'
'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
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Ya 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?
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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
Ya know his face but
don't know his name
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Ya know he got the sack, man
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
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'Cause folks got money
in the ghetto
Verse 2
Yeah, you know
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Hey, hey, hey
What'cha got to say?
(There's money in the ghetto)
Hollywood
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(Havin' money in the ghetto,
Verse 3
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Money in the ghetto ain't nothin' new It's
been like that way before
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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
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I take ya back to Iceberg Slim
And all the players that came before him
If you a everyday hustler,
get ya money
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'Cause what they do to
black man ain't funny
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All the time tryna put us in the pen
You get paroled,
then they send you again
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
Gettin' paid doin' all kinda stuff
Only rule on the street
is don't get caught
Unless your hustle ain't
breakin' the law
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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
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Ask them fools, 'cause they know
It's money in the ghetto
Verse 4
What'cha got to say?
(There's money in the ghetto)
Hollywood
(Havin' money in the ghetto,
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ooh-oh)
Verse 5
just tell me the price
'Cause Short Dawg ain't nothin' nice
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I always hit the town wit my
Spend fo' get an ounce a dank then
Rich nigga get high and relax
And if I bust a Ben Frank', get some
Andrew Jacksons
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Five twenties for a hundred dollar bill
You know the math, let's make a deal
On a one dollar bill if ya look on the front
You find the face of George Washington
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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
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Freed the slaves so they
put him on the five
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And Hamilton, old time friend
They put his face on the front of the ten
These are the dead presidents
From the hood and they represent
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The American dream for the
Make your money,
get some weed and a forty
I'm on the East side livin' like a king
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Kick back watchin'
fifty-inch screens
screens
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Bounce to the West side, hit studio
Verse 6
And spend my money in the ghetto
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Hey, hey, hey
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What'cha got to say?
(They got money in the ghetto)
Hollywood
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(Havin' money in the ghetto,
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ooh-oh)
Verse 7
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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 al ways say the same things
Don't be a gangster or a dope fiend
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
Inner city schools don't teach us shit
Got us stuck on stupid, straight S.O.S.
Can't get nothin',
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but they payin' the rest of them fools
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All around the world in the
other countries
They should be spendin'
that money right here
In the state of California
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You graduate and can't
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Dip to the hood and get rich
Slangin' rocks to a smoked out bitch
No school'll come close to that
A few transaction makesmy pockets fat
Em
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I make a lot of money and it ain't no lie
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
Verse 8
Yeah, you know
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Hey, hey, hey
Em
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What'cha got to say?
(They got money in the ghetto)
Hollywood
(Havin' money in the ghetto, ooh-oh)
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