If it wasn't for the money, cars and movies stars and jewels   And all these things, I've got, I wonder, hey   Would you still want me   (Want you)   Would you still be calling me   (Still calling you)   You be loving me?   (I'll be loving you)      Wanna keep you flawed with no dough   Pimpin' ain't easy trust me I know   When gangstas and hos go go go go go go together   Like chinchilla and bad weather I'm good but been better   All my bros, chedda and glamorous things   Copped a few cars a crib with a east and west wing   'Cuz this is how I'm livin' and y'all women know the secrets   Of how to get it and keep it how to prey on my weakness      'Cuz I want the P U S S Y   Got a lotta niggaz wonderin' it ain't just I   Gotta keep ya cash comin' and that's on my life   If it wasn't for the money and the things I got   She probably wouldn't like me   But I keep her and Irv and Jeffrey quite icy   Sip seraphin' who doesn't like me   And the murderous I N C      If it wasn't for the money, cars and movies stars and jewels   And all these things I've got I wonder, hey   Would you still want me   (Want you)   Would you still be calling me   (Still calling you)   You be loving me?   (I'll be loving you)      I wonder why love is about money   And why you wanna take it all from me   Honey my life is dark but its lovely   Crimes cars cribs ain't that right Kelly?   (Oh oh oh oh oh oh)   Yall don?t know money ain't a thang   Mami need a lil' change girl I'm pitchin' quarters   Closest to the arches but live in a fortress      New Benzes new Porsches new cases new lawyers   I'm becoming the infamous notorious rule   Couldn?t walk a mile in my shoes   Don?t possess the heart that I do   And it?s a wonder that I'm still here   Thought I was gone but I'm still here   And all you that left me here   Its kinda funny how you right back there      If it wasn't for the money, cars and movies stars and jewels   And all these things I've got I wonder, hey   Would you still want me   (Want you)   Would you still be calling me   (Still calling you)   You be loving me?   (I'll be loving you)      Oh Ashanti   Now how many nights does it take to make you   Believe my love, all these years   To have your kiss how could you wonder   See i was with you through the rain and the thunder   And all my crime and I came would you grunder   Now tell me baby, do you still wonder      'Coz I'm that chic from INC   Some try to front 'em chics ain't me   Straight to the top y'all all gone see all my names say   It's a wonder why we still here   And all this hating and were still here   You didn't think that we would be here   Ain't no mistaking this is our year      If it wasn't for the money, cars and movies stars and jewels   And all these things I've got I wonder, hey   Would you still want me   (Want you)   Would you still be calling me   (Still calling you)   You be loving me?   (I'll be loving you)