《Money in the Ghetto》歌词

[00:00:00] Money in the Ghetto - Too $hort

[00:00:09] In the ghetto

[00:00:10] You think life is hard

[00:00:12] Food stamps and to' up cars

[00:00:14] Wall to wall dirty orange carpet

[00:00:17] Sitting in a bucket

[00:00:18] Hoping you can start it

[00:00:19] And ride around to the liquor store

[00:00:21] Can't get a job get drunk some more

[00:00:23] You betta stop tripping on dem stereotypes

[00:00:26] 'Cause in the ghetto there's a good life

[00:00:28] We ain't starving like Marvin

[00:00:29] Won't see no roach

[00:00:31] When you chill wit the rich

[00:00:32] Folks in the hood

[00:00:33] You're sitting on leather

[00:00:34] Watching big screens

[00:00:36] Bought by the d**e fiends

[00:00:37] Smoking and what about the

[00:00:39] Brother wit the good jobs

[00:00:40] Saving money and working hard

[00:00:42] Bought a house for his wife and kids

[00:00:45] You only got one life to live

[00:00:47] Another brother got some coc*ine

[00:00:49] You know his face

[00:00:50] But don't know his name

[00:00:52] You know he got the sack mayn

[00:00:54] And he's sitting on a fat bank

[00:00:56] Seven cars at his house in the driveway

[00:00:58] Benz so clean don't roll it just fly away

[00:01:01] 'Cause folks got money in the

[00:01:03] Ghetto yeah you know

[00:01:06] Hey hey hey whatcha got to say

[00:01:14] There's money in the ghetto

[00:01:15] Hollywood

[00:01:19] Having money in the ghetto

[00:01:24] Money in the ghetto ain't nothing new

[00:01:26] It's been like that

[00:01:27] Way before you

[00:01:28] Was even born

[00:01:29] Get up from the down stroke

[00:01:31] Chocolate City for the black folks

[00:01:34] Say it loud in you hot pants

[00:01:36] Man child in the promised land

[00:01:38] I take you back to Iceberg Slim

[00:01:41] And all the players that came before him

[00:01:42] If you a everyday hustler

[00:01:44] Get your money

[00:01:45] 'Cause what they do to

[00:01:46] Black man ain't funny

[00:01:48] All the time trying to put us the pen

[00:01:50] You get paroled and

[00:01:51] Then they send you again

[00:01:52] All the homies in the hood getting paid

[00:01:54] You might have left but the money stayed

[00:01:56] In the ghetto

[00:01:57] It ain't all about drugs

[00:01:59] Getting paid doing all kinds of stuff

[00:02:01] Only rule on the streets is don't get caught

[00:02:04] Unless your hustle ain't breaking the law

[00:02:06] And even though rich folks got it good

[00:02:09] We sitting on 'em fat in the hood

[00:02:11] I'm riding on some gold ones

[00:02:13] Smoking dank and it's potent

[00:02:15] Ask them fools

[00:02:17] 'Cause they know

[00:02:19] There's money in the ghetto

[00:02:20] Hey hey hey whatcha got to say

[00:02:28] There's money in the ghetto

[00:02:29] Hollywood

[00:02:33] Having money in the ghetto

[00:02:38] I got money baby

[00:02:39] Just tell me the price

[00:02:41] 'Cause Short Dog ain't nutting nice

[00:02:43] I always hit the town

[00:02:44] Wit my boy Ben Frankling

[00:02:46] Spend fo'

[00:02:47] Get an ounce of dank then

[00:02:48] Rich ni**a get high relaxing

[00:02:50] If I bust a Ben Frank' get

[00:02:51] Some Andrew Jacksons

[00:02:53] Five twenties for a hundred dollar bill

[00:02:55] You know the math

[00:02:56] Let's make a deal

[00:02:57] On the one dollar bill

[00:02:58] If you look on the front

[00:02:59] You find the face of George Washington

[00:03:02] Make money baby

[00:03:03] That's all I do

[00:03:04] That's how I know Thomas

[00:03:05] Jefferson is on the two

[00:03:06] Abraham Lincoln got shot and died

[00:03:09] Freed the slaves

[00:03:10] So they put him on the five

[00:03:11] And Hamilton

[00:03:12] My old time friend

[00:03:14] They put his face on the front of the ten

[00:03:16] These are the dead presidents

[00:03:18] From the hood and they represent

[00:03:20] The American dream

[00:03:21] For the average minority

[00:03:23] Make your money get some w**d and a forty

[00:03:25] I'm on the Eastside living like a king

[00:03:28] Kick back watching fifty inch screens

[00:03:30] Bounce to the Westside

[00:03:31] Hit the studio

[00:03:33] And spend my money in the ghetto

[00:03:35] Hey hey hey whatcha got to say

[00:03:42] They got money in the ghetto

[00:03:43] Hollywood

[00:03:48] Having money in the ghetto

[00:04:11] Nowadays if you can't say a rap

[00:04:13] Or play sports

[00:04:15] You might just come up short

[00:04:17] And they always say the same things

[00:04:19] Don't be a gangster or a dopefiend

[00:04:21] Get your high school diploma

[00:04:22] Go to college

[00:04:24] Get a degree and start making dollars

[00:04:25] Only one thing wrong

[00:04:27] And it's a trip

[00:04:28] Inner city schools don't teach us sh*t

[00:04:30] Got us stuck on stupid

[00:04:31] Straight S O S

[00:04:33] Can't get nothing

[00:04:34] But they paying the rest of them fools

[00:04:36] All around the world in the other countries

[00:04:38] They should be spending

[00:04:39] That money right here

[00:04:40] In the state of California

[00:04:42] You graduate and can't spell diploma

[00:04:45] Dip to the hood and get rich

[00:04:47] Slanging rocks to a smoked out b**ch

[00:04:49] No school'll come close to that

[00:04:51] A few transaction make my pockets fat

[00:04:54] I make a lot of money

[00:04:55] And it ain't no lie

[00:04:56] I'll probably ball til the day I die

[00:04:58] And if I didn't so what

[00:05:01] I bet you I'd still come up

[00:05:03] 'Cause there's a whole lot of

[00:05:04] Money in the ghetto yeah you know

[00:05:08] Hey hey hey whatcha got to say

[00:05:16] They got money in the ghetto

[00:05:17] Hollywood

[00:05:21] Having money in the ghetto