Ghetto Lyrics - Singles - Sticky Fingaz

If your head is as big as Shamello's 

If your bank is the check cashin' place 

If you put on pantyhose 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] 

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' 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:Repeat x2] 

The ghetto's not a place, it don't matter what color 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:Repeat x2] 

Can you be rich and be ghetto [Repeat x3] 

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