In the ghetto, you think life is hard 在贫民窟，你觉得生活艰难

Food stamps and to' up cars 粮票和“动车

Wall to wall dirty orange carpet 墙到墙脏的橙色地毯

Sittin in a bucket, hopin you can start it 在好好坐着一个水桶，河滨你可以启动它

And ride around to the liquor store 并四处跑的酒铺

Can't get a job get drunk some more 无法找到工作，喝醉了一些

You betta stop trippin on dem stereotypes DEM的刻板印象，你斗鱼停止践踏

Cause in the ghetto there's a good life 因为在贫民区有一个良好的生活

We ain't starvin like Marvin, won't see no roach 我们是不是starvin喜欢马文，不会看不到蟑螂

When ya chill wit the rich folks in the hood 当雅寒意机智富人们在引擎盖

You're sittin on leather watchin big screens 你呆坐着皮革凝视着大屏幕

Bought by the dope fiends 由涂料恶魔买

Smokin, and what about the brother wit the good jobs 斯莫，什么对兄弟机智的好工作

Savin money, and workin hard 萨文钱，干活辛苦

Bought a house for his wife and kids 买了一套房子，他的妻子和孩子

Ya only got one life to live 雅只得到了一个生命活

Another brother got some cocaine 另一个兄弟得到了一些可卡因

You know his face, but don't know his name 你知道他的脸，但不知道他的名字

You know he got the sack mayn 你知道他得到了一袋迈恩

And he's sittin on a fat bank 和他坐在一个发银行

Seven cars at his house in the driveway 七人车在他家的车道上

Benz so clean don't roll it just fly away 奔驰那么干净不滚只是飞走

Cause folks got money in the ghetto.. yeah you know 因为人们有钱在贫民窟..是啊，你知道

   

[Chorus One:] [合唱一： ]

Hey hey hey.. whatcha got to say (There's money in the ghetto) 嘿嘿嘿..你会怎样得说（有资金在贫民区）

Hollywoooooood! Havin money in the ghettooo Hollywoooooood ！在ghettooo就吃钱

   

Money in the ghetto ain't nothin new 钱在贫民区是没什么新

It's been like that, way before you 它是这样的，在你的方式

Was even born, get up from the down stroke 还没有出生，从上下行程起床

Chocolate City for the black folks 巧克力城为黑乡亲

Say it loud in ya hot pants 在雅热裤大声说出来

Man child in the promised land 哥们儿在应许之地

I take you back to Iceberg Slim 我带你回冰山修身

And all the players that came before him 和所有在他面前说出来的球员

If you a everyday hustler, get your money 如果你每天骗子，你的钱

Cause what they do to black man ain't funny 因为他们做的黑衣男子究竟是不是好笑

All the time tryin to put us the pen 所有难以释怀的时候把我们的笔

You get paroled and then they send you again 你得到假释，然后他们再发送给您

All the homies in the hood gettin paid 所有在引擎盖刚开的兄弟们支付

You might have left but the money stayed 你可能已经离开了，但留下的钱

In the ghetto, it ain't all about drugs 在贫民窟，这是不是所有的药物

Gettin paid doin all kinds of stuff 刚开支付杜安各种东西

Only rule on the streets is don't get caught 只有在街道上排除是不会被抓到

Unless your hustle ain't breakin the law 除非你的喧嚣是不是分手了法律

And even though rich folks got it good 而且即使富人们得到它好

We sittin on 'em fat in the hood 我们呆坐着的时间发在引擎盖

I'm ridin on some gold ones 我坐车上的一些黄金的人

Smokin dank and it's potent 斯莫潮湿的，它的强效

Ask them fools, cause they know 问他们是傻子，因为他们知道

There's money in the ghetto 还有钱在贫民区

   

[Chorus One] [合唱一]

   

I got money baby, just tell me the price 我得到的钱宝宝，只是告诉我的价格

Cause Short Dawg ain't nuttin nice 导致短路耶是不是尼坦不错

I always hit the town wit my boy Ben Franklin 我总是打镇机智我的孩子本杰明·富兰克林

Spend fo', get an ounce of dank then 花佛 ，让潮湿的话每盎司

Rich nigga get high relaxin 丰富的黑人获得高的松弛

If I bust a Ben Frank' get some Andrew Jacksons 如果我胸围奔弗兰克得到一些安德鲁·杰克逊

Five twenties for a hundred dollar bill 五个二十多岁的百元钞票

You know the math, let's make a deal 你知道数学，让我们做个交易

On the one dollar bill if you look on the front 在一美元的钞票，如果你看一下在前面

You find the face of George Washington 你会发现乔治·华盛顿的脸

Make money baby, that's all I do 赚钱的宝贝，这就是我做的

That's how I know Thomas Jefferson is on the two 这就是我知道的托马斯·杰斐逊是在两个

Abraham Lincoln got shot and died 亚伯拉罕·林肯被射杀而死

Freed the slaves so they put him on the five 解放了奴隶，使他们把他放在5

And Hamilton, my old time friend 和汉密尔顿，我老的时候朋友

They put his face on the front of the ten 他们把他的脸在十正面

These are the dead, presidents 这些都是死的，校长

From the hood and they represent 从引擎盖和他们所代表

The American dream for the average minority 美国梦对于普通的少数民族

Make your money get some weed and a forty 让您的资金得到一些杂草和40

I'm on the Eastside livin like a king 我在东区活着像一个国王

Kick back watchin fifty inch screens 踢回在看着50寸屏幕

Bounce to the Westside, hit the studio 反弹到西边，打工作室

And spend my money in the ghetto 花我的钱在贫民区

   

[Chorus Two:] [合唱二： ]

Hey hey hey.. whatcha got to say (They got money in the ghetto) 嘿嘿嘿..你会怎样得说（他们得到了在贫民区的钱）

Hollywoooooood! Havin money in the ghettooo Hollywoooooood ！在ghettooo就吃钱

   

Nowadays if you can't say a rap, or play sports 现在，如果你不能说一个说唱，或做运动

You might just come up short 你可能只是拿出短

And they always say the same things 他们总是说同样的事情

Don't be a gangster or a dopefiend 不要做一个强盗或dopefiend

Get your high school diploma, go to college 让你的高中文凭，考上大学

Get a degree and start makin dollars 拿到学位，并开始出不来美元

Only one thing wrong, and it's a trip 只有一件事错了，这是一个旅程

Inner city schools don't teach us shit 市内学校不教我们狗屎

Got us stuck on stupid, straight S.O.S. 把我们被困在愚蠢的，直S.O.S。

Can't get nothin, but they payin the rest of them fools 不能得到没什么，但他们婚前的这些傻瓜，其余

All around the world in the other countries 所有世界其他国家各地

They should be spendin that money right here 他们应该在这里赵本山钱

In the state of California 在加利福尼亚州

You graduate and can't spell diploma 你能顺利毕业并不能拼文凭

Dip to the hood and get rich 浸引擎盖和致富

Slangin rocks to a smoked out bitch Slangin岩石熏出来的婊子

No school'll come close to that 没有schoolll接近该

A few transaction make my pockets fat 一些交易让我的口袋里的脂肪

I make a lot of money and it ain't no lie 我做了很多钱，这是不是没有谎言

I'll probably ball til the day I die 我可能会球直到我死去的那天

And if I didn't, so what? 如果我没有，那又怎样？

I bet you I'd still come up 我敢打赌，你我还是上来

Cause there's a whole lot of money in the ghetto.. yeah you know 原因有一大堆的钱在贫民区..是啊，你知道

   

[Chorus Two] [合唱二]