In the ghetto ...Sit in a buckethopin you c...Cause in the ghetto there's ... wit the rich folks in the hood ...n cars at his house in the driveway ...use folks got money in the ghetto ...(It's money in the ghetto) ...Havin money in the ghettooo ...Money in the ghetto ain't no...Say it loud in ya hot pants ...Man child in the promise land ...tryin to put us the pen ...All the homies in the hood gettin pai...In the ghetto it ain't...e sittin on it phat in the hood ...It's money in the ghetto ...the town wit my boy Ben Franklin ...And if I bust a Ben Frank get some Andr...And how much in my old time friend ...And spend my money in the ghetto

Deep in the bosom of the ge...Pick up my pen and start to write ...I fight dark forces in the clear moonlight...ght I was going mad in a hurry ... making excess mess in darkness ...Keep the beast in my nature

cool Keith in Bronx housing ...In Wells Fargo cashin...oncrete, mash em up in car garages ...rograms like Gentle Ben ...atch your backpack, pen and pencil ...groupies in line, camera flashe...ls, I'd rather shop in Modell's ...n bring my projects in the music business ...Tecs in my pockets make you...are you doin lookin in my closet? ...Stop lookin around in my kitchen ...Walk in giant arenas and st...s, Town Car, see me in the brown car ... change my face up, in Puerto Rico ...ngado bumpin beats, in a El Dorado

very summer kept me in vacation Bible scho...In the beginnin no one... ny chose to invest in a few ...ne love to Patricia Ben and the rest of the...For believing in a young man obsesse...ou could never walk in my shoes or stand in my boots ...eah see rayz poison pen for sharing the sta... k sly hold me down in La ...ckin it up with Von in the bay ...ig nat and foot out in VA ...h Eddie Francis out in seatown ...ya boy Jin gota run in with the law ...the lies the layout in rides ...ry write up forever in context

Bobby I'm floatin in your galaxy) ...r peoples, left out in the rain, fountains...ur lab, get stabbed in bloody ...ieves like vultures in deserts rest on a c...Jot us in your journal, we ho...u'll be trapped off in PatMoss ...Get smacked in the back of your ne...hat's controlled by Ben or Willis ...When my pen glides all MC's wil...Caught up in the hollow-head suc...rd, bag a secretary in the glaze, he tagge...Fell out twice in the basement

We going back in the years ...We going back in the years ...ent to school I was in high speed ...ry summer I was out in south ben ... from making models in the basement ...Playing ball in the park, there was...Starting spinning in the PJs with satcho... to the pad and the pen ... student and landed in medina as a teacher

And that was back in 98 wit the Langley ...e had to move on so in fact real fast, ...In a serious face I'm convinced god works in mysterious ways, ...As in people that mean ev...ES, TONY / KWELLER, BEN