[00:15.740]（Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[00:16.850]C.R.E.A.M. get...）
[00:18.180]Yeah, check this ol fly **** out
[00:20.600]Word up
[00:22.630]（Cash Rules Everything Around Me） Take you on a natural joint
[00:24.310]（C.R.E.A.M. get the money） Here we here we go
[00:26.460]（dolla dolla bill y'all） Check this ****, yo!
[00:28.390]I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side
[00:31.100]Staying alive was no jive
[00:32.720]Had second hands, moms bounced on old man
[00:35.720]So then we moved to Shaolin land
[00:37.840]A young youth, yo rockin the gold tooth, 'Lo goose
[00:40.910]Only way, I begin to G' off was drug loot
[00:43.530]And let's start it like this son, rollin with this one
[00:46.850]And that one, pullin out gats for fun
[00:49.030]But it was just a dream for the teen, who was a fiend
[00:52.660]Started smokin woolies at sixteen
[00:54.160]And running up in gates, and doing hits for high stakes
[00:57.160]Making my way on fire escapes
[00:59.470]No question I would speed, for cracks and ****
[01:02.600]The combination made my eyes bleed
[01:04.780]No question I would flow off, and try to get the dough off
[01:08.720]Sticking up white boys in ball courts
[01:10.470]My life got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater
[01:13.910]Times is rough and tough like leather
[01:15.780]Figured out I went the wrong route
[01:18.160]So I got with a sick tight clique and went all out
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[01:22.050]Catchin keys from across seas
[01:23.490]Rollin in MPV's, every week we made forty G's
[01:26.670]Yo brothas respect mine, or anger the tech nine
[01:29.490]Ch-POW! Move from the gate now
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[01:31.550]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[01:33.360]C.R.E.A.M.
[01:33.610]Get the money
[01:34.990]Dollar, dollar bill y'all
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[01:36.860]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[01:38.990]C.R.E.A.M.
[01:39.740]Get the money
[01:40.360]Dollar, dollar bill y'all
[01:41.420]
[01:42.170]It's been 22 long hard years and still strugglin
[01:44.800]Survival got me buggin, but I'm alive on arrival
[01:47.420]I peep at the shape of the streets
[01:49.920]And stay awake to the ways of the world cause **** is deep
[01:52.750]A man with a dream with plans to make C.R.E.A.M.
[01:55.440]Which failed; I went to jail at the age of 15
[01:57.940]A young buck sellin drugs and such who never had much
[02:00.940]Trying to get a clutch at what I could not touch
[02:03.070]
[02:03.880]The court played me short, now I face incarceration
[02:07.690]
[02:08.630]Pacin', going up state's my destination
[02:09.750]Handcuffed in back of a bus, 40 of us
[02:11.940]Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough
[02:13.880]But as the world turns I learned life is Hell
[02:16.580]Living in the world, no different from a cell
[02:18.710]
[02:19.390]Everyday I escape from Jakes givin chase, sellin base
[02:21.460]
[02:22.020]Smokin bones in the staircase
[02:23.330]Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess
[02:27.330]I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed
[02:29.330]
[02:29.960]But I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth?
[02:32.640]Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth
[02:34.710]
[02:35.390]Who explained working hard may help you maintain
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[02:37.960]to learn to overcome the heartaches and pain
[02:40.460]We got stickup kids, corrupt cops, and crack rocks
[02:42.640]
[02:43.140]and stray shots, all on the block that stays hot
[02:45.460]
[02:46.020]Leave it up to me while I be living proof
[02:48.460]To kick the truth to the young black youth
[02:50.670]
[02:51.300]But shorty's running wild, smokin sess, drinkin beer
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[02:53.990]And ain't trying to hear what I'm kickin in his ear
[02:56.670]Neglected for now, but yo, it gots to be accepted
[02:59.740]That what? That life is hected
[03:01.800]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[03:04.110]C.R.E.A.M.
[03:04.740]get the money
[03:05.490]Dolla dolla bill
[03:06.670]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[03:09.300]C.R.E.A.M.
[03:09.990]get the money
[03:10.990]Dolla dolla bill
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[03:12.610]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[03:15.050]C.R.E.A.M.
[03:15.360]get the money
[03:16.360]Dolla dolla bill
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[03:17.930]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[03:19.990]C.R.E.A.M.
[03:20.320]get the money
[03:21.500]Dolla dolla bill
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