Money in the Ghetto-Too $hort

[ti:Money in the Ghetto] [ar:Too $hort] [al:The Essential] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Money in the Ghetto - Too $hort [00:09.98]In the ghetto [00:10.97]You think life is hard [00:12.58]Food stamps and to' up cars [00:14.37] [00:14.96]Wall to wall dirty orange carpet [00:17.03]Sitting in a bucket [00:18.21]Hoping you can start it [00:19.57]And ride around to the liquor store [00:21.65]Can't get a job get drunk some more [00:23.88]You betta stop tripping on dem stereotypes [00:25.89] [00:26.52]'Cause in the ghetto there's a good life [00:28.27]We ain't starving like Marvin [00:29.61]Won't see no roach [00:30.65] [00:31.35]When you chill wit the rich [00:32.55]Folks in the hood [00:33.88]You're sitting on leather [00:34.73]Watching big screens [00:35.65] [00:36.17]Bought by the d**e fiends [00:37.69]Smoking and what about the [00:39.30]Brother wit the good jobs [00:40.51]Saving money and working hard [00:42.87]Bought a house for his wife and kids [00:45.17]You only got one life to live [00:47.47]Another brother got some coc*ine [00:49.15] [00:49.71]You know his face [00:50.77]But don't know his name [00:52.36]You know he got the sack mayn [00:53.90] [00:54.51]And he's sitting on a fat bank [00:56.09] [00:56.85]Seven cars at his house in the driveway [00:58.94]Benz so clean don't roll it just fly away [01:01.74]'Cause folks got money in the [01:03.08]Ghetto yeah you know [01:05.35] [01:06.01]Hey hey hey whatcha got to say [01:11.32] [01:14.12]There's money in the ghetto [01:15.03]Hollywood [01:19.10]Having money in the ghetto [01:21.35] [01:24.71]Money in the ghetto ain't nothing new [01:26.85]It's been like that [01:27.95]Way before you [01:28.94]Was even born [01:29.72]Get up from the down stroke [01:31.09] [01:31.77]Chocolate City for the black folks [01:33.42] [01:34.14]Say it loud in you hot pants [01:35.78] [01:36.38]Man child in the promised land [01:38.18] [01:38.70]I take you back to Iceberg Slim [01:40.51] [01:41.09]And all the players that came before him [01:42.78]If you a everyday hustler [01:44.66]Get your money [01:45.65]'Cause what they do to [01:46.54]Black man ain't funny [01:48.10]All the time trying to put us the pen [01:50.45]You get paroled and [01:51.27]Then they send you again [01:52.68]All the homies in the hood getting paid [01:54.97]You might have left but the money stayed [01:56.83]In the ghetto [01:57.82]It ain't all about drugs [01:59.75]Getting paid doing all kinds of stuff [02:01.51]Only rule on the streets is don't get caught [02:03.76] [02:04.34]Unless your hustle ain't breaking the law [02:06.08] [02:06.59]And even though rich folks got it good [02:08.68] [02:09.35]We sitting on 'em fat in the hood [02:10.80] [02:11.53]I'm riding on some gold ones [02:13.05] [02:13.61]Smoking dank and it's potent [02:15.32] [02:15.92]Ask them fools [02:17.40]'Cause they know [02:18.21] [02:19.31]There's money in the ghetto [02:20.64]Hey hey hey whatcha got to say [02:25.86] [02:28.71]There's money in the ghetto [02:29.63]Hollywood [02:33.82]Having money in the ghetto [02:35.94] [02:38.83]I got money baby [02:39.96]Just tell me the price [02:41.53]'Cause Short Dog ain't nutting nice [02:43.64]I always hit the town [02:44.72]Wit my boy Ben Frankling [02:45.81] [02:46.33]Spend fo' [02:47.00]Get an ounce of dank then [02:48.72]Rich ni**a get high relaxing [02:50.44]If I bust a Ben Frank' get [02:51.84]Some Andrew Jacksons [02:53.33]Five twenties for a hundred dollar bill [02:55.58]You know the math [02:56.67]Let's make a deal [02:57.44]On the one dollar bill [02:58.54]If you look on the front [02:59.97]You find the face of George Washington [03:02.09]Make money baby [03:03.26]That's all I do [03:04.20]That's how I know Thomas [03:05.44]Jefferson is on the two [03:06.95]Abraham Lincoln got shot and died [03:09.49]Freed the slaves [03:10.14]So they put him on the five [03:11.83]And Hamilton [03:12.43]My old time friend [03:14.00]They put his face on the front of the ten [03:16.32]These are the dead presidents [03:18.25] [03:18.78]From the hood and they represent [03:20.65]The American dream [03:21.89]For the average minority [03:23.50]Make your money get some w**d and a forty [03:25.82]I'm on the Eastside living like a king [03:28.22]Kick back watching fifty inch screens [03:30.34]Bounce to the Westside [03:31.67]Hit the studio [03:32.62] [03:33.22]And spend my money in the ghetto [03:35.10]Hey hey hey whatcha got to say [03:40.31] [03:42.87]They got money in the ghetto [03:43.97]Hollywood [03:48.29]Having money in the ghetto [03:51.34] [04:11.50]Nowadays if you can't say a rap [04:13.55]Or play sports [04:14.45] [04:15.00]You might just come up short [04:16.53] [04:17.08]And they always say the same things [04:18.70] [04:19.29]Don't be a gangster or a dopefiend [04:21.26]Get your high school diploma [04:22.97]Go to college [04:24.01]Get a degree and start making dollars [04:25.88]Only one thing wrong [04:27.56]And it's a trip [04:28.68]Inner city schools don't teach us sh*t [04:30.52]Got us stuck on stupid [04:31.72]Straight S O S [04:33.15]Can't get nothing [04:34.11]But they paying the rest of them fools [04:36.13]All around the world in the other countries [04:38.60]They should be spending [04:39.41]That money right here [04:40.99]In the state of California [04:42.69]You graduate and can't spell diploma [04:44.67] [04:45.29]Dip to the hood and get rich [04:47.48]Slanging rocks to a smoked out b**ch [04:49.23] [04:49.95]No school'll come close to that [04:51.78]A few transaction make my pockets fat [04:54.10]I make a lot of money [04:55.07]And it ain't no lie [04:56.52]I'll probably ball til the day I die [04:58.96]And if I didn't so what [05:00.82] [05:01.56]I bet you I'd still come up [05:03.53]'Cause there's a whole lot of [05:04.62]Money in the ghetto yeah you know [05:07.40] [05:08.24]Hey hey hey whatcha got to say [05:13.54] [05:16.01]They got money in the ghetto [05:17.11]Hollywood [05:21.45]Having money in the ghetto