Verse One:
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In the ghetto
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You think life is hard
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Food stamps and to' up cars
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Wall to wall dirty on carpet
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Sit in a buckethopin 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 and won't see no roach
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When ya chill wit the rich folks in the hood
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Ya 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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Save 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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I know a brother dat got some cocaine
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Ya know his face but don't know his name
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Ya know he got the sack man
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And he's sittin on a phat bank
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Sellin cars at his house in the driveway
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Being so clean don't roll it just fly away
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Cause folks got money in the ghetto
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Yea you know
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Chorus:
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Hey hey hey
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What cha got to say
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(It's money in the ghetto)
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Hollywoooooood
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Havin money in the ghettooo
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Verse Two:
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Money in the ghetto ain't nothin new
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It's been like dat 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 promise land
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I take ya back to iceberg's land
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And all the playas that came before him
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If you a everyday hustler, get cha 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 parole and then they send ya 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 bout drugs
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Gettin paid doin all kinds of stuff
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Only rule on the street is don't get caught
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Unless ya hustle ain't breakin the law
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And even though rich folks got it good
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We're sittin on it phat in the hood
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I'm ridin dem gold ones
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Smokin dank and it's potent
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Ask dem fools cause they know
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It's money in the ghetto
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-Chorus-
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Verse Three:
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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 a dank then
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Rich nigga get high relaxin
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And 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 lets make deal
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On a one dollar bill if ya look on the front
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Ya find the face of George Washington
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Make money baby dat's all I do
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Dat'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 how much in my old time friend
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They put his face on the front of the ten
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They are the dead presidents
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From the hood and they represent
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The american dream for the average monority
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Make some money get some weed and a forty
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I'm on the east side livin like a king
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Kick back watch a fifty inch screens
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Bounce to the west and hit studio
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And spend my money in the ghetto
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-Chorus-
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Money In The Ghetto
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| Too Short |
