ghetto

(featuring Petey Pablo)

[Sticky Fingaz - talking]

If your head is as big as Shamello's

If your bank is the check cashin place

If you put on panty-hose instead of shavin your legs

If you use grease that you used over and over again

If you only go to church on Easter and holidays

Then you ghetto, believe that

[Chorus - Petey Pablo]

Can you be rich and be ghetto? (Yep)

And just cause you poor do that mean that you ghetto? (Nope)

So people don't understand what it mean to be ghetto

And if you gonna ask then you probably never know

[Sticky Fingaz (Petey Pablo)]

Bein ghetto, it's just the things we do sometimes

Like hangin your clothes on the oven to dry

But you late, you gotta go and they ain't ready yet

(You put 'em on anyway, and rock 'em halfway wet)

First you wear then return everything you buy

Always lookin for a discount 'til the day you die

Got three kids, by three different guys

(And all they need to give you is a Mai Tai and a shot)

You know you ghetto when you use a wrench for a channel changer

No antenna, you gotta use a metal hanger

Drink from the container and put it back in the fridge

(Knowin damn well the shit was wrong you did)

Put salt on your food, before you even taste it

Get a doggy bag, ghetto niggaz ain't wastin shit

You know you ghetto, no, you know you grimy

(When you iron dirty pants 'til them shits get shiny)

[Chorus 2x]

[Sticky Fingaz (Petey Pablo)]

The ghetto's not a place, it don't matter what colour you are

You can be white as chalk or as black as tar

And it really don't matter how much money you have

(You can live on Fifth Ave. and be ghetto fab)

You know you ghetto when your soap is the size of Chiclet

Run into the kitchen wet for dishwashin liquid

The water cold cause they shut off all your power

(You know you ghetto if you pee in the shower)

No toilet paper, somebody used the last you had

No problem, just get a Daily News or a paper bag

Ball it up and crumble it, make it soft in your ass

(But when you flush, the toilet always gets stopped up)

And if you got the money, the landlord never get it

We never pay the rent, yo we almost got evicted

If this shit is funny or offendin you

(Chances are, it's because you're ghetto too)

[chorus 2x]

Can you be rich and be ghetto (3x)

And if you gotta ask then you'll probably never know

Ghetto

East Coast is the ghetto

West Coast is the ghetto

South Side is the ghetto

Everywhere is the ghetto

The ghetto

The ghetto

The ghetto

I'll probably die, in the ghetto..