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Money,
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M -O -N -E -Y, Y
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M -O -N -E -Y,
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C
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what you need you just get by
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Money, honey, ain't it funny,
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money, people wanna die
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It seems without money people cry,
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people will lie
You cannot deny,
without money you can't apply
For anything that captures your eye,
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I wonder why
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The root of all evil, let me teach you,
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now who am I?
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The MC, teaching my people,
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don't live that lie
You got to get money,
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but don't let money get you by
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I can break you down
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like whatever you want
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Whatever you spend your
money on strong,
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yo that's what you blow
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Spend your money on these honeys,
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yo if that's what you want
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Spend your money on attorneys
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if you're going to court
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If I look around your neck,
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I can see what you bought
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What you think, you get respect?
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No, you takin' the short
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Yo, you need the money,
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of course you need it to live
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Yo, what you put your money on,
Yo, ride on my kids
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M -O -N -E -Y, don't ask why
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It is the root of all evil, though
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Very necessary to your livelihood
It's all good when you've got enough
Till enough ain't enough
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And you hit upon rough times
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You make your money
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and I'll make mine
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Mine, mine, mine, mine, we need a
We can hold anything
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Don't get me wrong,
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mistaken this song
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Like money is not important,
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yes it is, just be strong
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It's the reason for the thieving
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and that war going on
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It's the reason that you seeing
all these girls in the thong
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It's the reason that the radio's on
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It's the reason that you believing
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you gotta work from sun up to dawn
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It's the cravings that connect you
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to that money you making
Your desire is the fire,
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got you feeling you slaving
Free yourself
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Money doesn't make you the man,
be yourself
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A man gets his money in grants, okay
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I'ma get this money really all day
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But not to the point
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where I'm going the wrong way
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I'ma put my money down
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on rides and all that
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Hook up the house
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so me and my spouse can fall back
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Invest in my knowledge way
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beyond college
Write books and fly hooks
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in my cottage
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Jeez, Chris Bling Blingin',
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yo please
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Money is a energy that gets what I need
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I can understand them cats
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that rap flossing and frontin'
It's all good,
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they from the hood never had nothin'
They just got their money
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and everything's sunny
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Hear what I'm sayin',
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they playin' boy and
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lookin' for bunnies
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Then we floss what we bought
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Forgetting that sharing
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is what we've been taught
Cause this here gettin' money
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is an individual sport
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Money can get me in
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To the same places where years ago
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My bros and sisters with black skin
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Were confined to the back door
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and the kitchen
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Last verse, where your cash purse?
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Reaching to your wallet, nothing,
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a lot of that hurts
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Breath stinking, you're thinking,
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but can't afford certs
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Need the dollar and baby hollering,
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I'll work
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I don't know how you gonna
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get the dough
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You could become educated,
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you could become a ho
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You could do both,
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that's like putting butter on toast
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The bread is the knowledge,
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butter is what gets you that close
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Money is funny, how a piece of paper
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can make or break your very existence
Quick as it come, quick as it go
you better know about
the ebb and the flow.
You get money in droves,
trick it on cars and blow,
throw dollars at black queens,
cause for the dough,
they'll strip they clothes,
and for the right amount of money,
a king will pimp his queen
into being a hoe on a stroll.
Life will always be hard
when you choose to make money.
Your God.
Money
KRS‐One, MC Lyte
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