Cheap Money - Raz Simone

La, da, da, da

Da, da, da, da

Da, da, ah

Do what you love, and love who you do

Time is worth more than money, a billion dollars won’t buy you another you

Another year spent with your son, quality time with your loved ones

Trust me, one call home every night is worth far more than ten trust funds

I’d rather toss and turn on a dirt floor where love runs

Than lay in a bed where the truth lies, we scrutinize on two sides

Then that grip which once was too tight, gets loose while wanderin' eyes and

lost souls develop new ties

New women, new guys

New bitches, new lies

New niggas, new fights

We villainize one another, place blame, and victimize each other

Oh god, Big Sean, nothing’s more important than the moolah

Vision impaired, gold chains on my neck, and rings, Slick Rick Raz the ruler

I look to my past to maneuver through the zigzags that I have in the future

Make my next move better than my last tour

You were too concerned with my private life to be successful unless you were a

private eye

When trust is broken it hardly ever heals, but we might could try

Time is everything, and money means nothing

When you come from where we came, you better own something

When them sirens siren, money made from grindin'

It’s no longer for survivin', we hood rich, shinin'

But the money from the ki’s pushed into pushin' this rhymin'

Now that limelight’s blindin', that limelight’s blindin'

My old bitches cryin', my old niggas lyin'

My hoe bitches still grindin', I’mma cop 'em all islands

I’mma buy 'em all islands, wipe them tears off they eyelids

She can find an insult in a bouquet of roses, so when we’re alone I just don’t

talk

Then that silence gets mistaken for negative emotions, when I’m not angry at

all, I know I’m not

But when I look deeper and I’m realistic, I find resentment, and that

resentment is afflicted by her negativity

Which is the product of my resistance, which is visible by my abrupt lack of

commitment

Which is contigent on her dishonest lips and eyes that twitch when they lie

We can all find a bitch in disguise, but sometimes that disguise is so

seductive we look right past all the signs

We scream, «Love, what don’t kill you will make you stronger» We repeat these

simple cliches like childhood monikers

In hopes that they’ll strike nostalgic chords, maybe one day we’ll speak them

true

But I could tell you a hunnid things that won’t kill you but will weaken you

We ask God for mercy, and just in case, we pray to Jesus too

We recite these scriptures, but that’s the same exact thing that the demons do,

god

Chop a nigga down for the fuck of it, sawed off nigga, no tuckin it

Buckshots nigga, no slugs in it, excuse me if I sound fuckin sick

It’s no fictional, nigga, it’s just what we did, send up a prayer to the game

god

The work doesn’t ever stop though, gangsters don’t get laid off

Coughin' sick as fuck on a cold block, 'cause hustlers don’t get days off

I put in my work and my timin', my nigga, the stripes and the stars is alignin',

my nigga

Red, white, and blue with my crimin', my nigga, American dreams or terrorist

schemes

Claws of the eagle tear at the seams of any culture that doesn’t want to share

it’s beliefs

Pollution smearing the streets, newborn babies barely could breathe

Swords turn into bombs buried beneath, if you was a phone case, then you’d

carry a sheath

If you was a phone case, then you’d carry a sheath, if you was a phone case,

then you’d carry a sheath

Male Voice:

Come on, come on, hurry up

Fuck nigga, pick up the phone

Aye, what’s up nigga, where you at, dawg?

Raz Simone:

G, I’m at the spot, what’s goin on?

Male Voice:

Nigga, I see them niggas right now, dawg

Raz Simone:

You swear?

Where?

Male Voice:

Nigga I see-

Nigga, over on the south side

Right now, nigga

Raz Simone:

I’mma come at you right now

Male Voice:

Nigga, hurry up, nigga

Raz Simone:

I promise, straight up

Male Voice:

Aight, out