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

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

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' d**n well the s**t was wrong you did

Put salt on your food before you even taste it

Get a doggy bag ghetto n***az ain't wastin' s**t

You know you ghetto no you know you grimy

When you iron dirty pants 'til them s**ts get shiny

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 dishwasher 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 a*s

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 s**t is funny or offendin' you

Chances are it's because you're ghetto too

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