[Intro]      To everybody in the struggle   If somebody ever told you, you couldn't do something   and you still made it happen   Congratulations   So clap for the independent women   So clap for my homies straight thuggin   Clap for the real MC's buzzin   We the leaders of the new school   Uh...      [Verse 1]      Mama's in the kitchen cookin' that rice    Father's outside shootin' em dice    Brother's in jail raising hell   Sister's on the corner sellin' fruit cocktails   Family alcoholic's still sippin' his booze   That's why i'm rappin' over rhythm and blues   To all you rich black folks with your glissining jewels   Entrepeneurs all you millionaire dudes   Before you catch another case limit your moves   Johnny Cochran got a brain tumor i deliver the news   What if mother nature aborted the sky   When we shoot our fireworks on the fourth of July   We can't afford the life so abortion rised   Can't afford the truth so we told a lie    Can't afford a funeral cause the cost is high    GOD DAMN we can't even afford to die      [Chorus]      But if you buying a house i'll be your landlord   I'll finance you a car that's if you can afford   I own the jails, the banks and all the property's    Here's a million come on big shot   Lets play Monopoly      [Verse 2]      Cause when the rappers start grindin'   It's a shame my outta towna gotta sign em   But when his album drop and he go diamond   Everybody was beside em   Every real artist need a real label to sign em   Jus like every good man need a good woman behind them    It ain't about havin' the baddest chick on the streets   I respect the dude Nas cause he married Calise   But still if you ain't ready just wanna be my Beyonce   Then we can do it like Jay-Z & Beyonce    Pardon my language if you a real bitch    Then we can do it like Jada & Will Smith   Coincedence where we comin' to spend it at    we in the same place that we first got rich at   They only gon' give us what they know they can get back   So when you get money don't you ever forget that      [Chorus]      [Verse 3]      He got a DVD flow   They need to get my man smackers on TV show   the voice of the jail, voice of the streets   Kay Slay's social plays seven days a week   We pull guns on eachother always still people's   If you strapped then i'm not strapped we still equal   They say don't carry guns cause guns real lethal   But guns don't kill people, people kill people   My cousin got into time he said it ain't nothing   Told me i can do the time standing on my head cousin   Yo Paps stay focused you out here bustin'   Time i come home you gon' be somethin'   Wish i can do half of this time for him   We goin' in thuggin' He do it here i do it here   They running through cover but still   It's all about having money and properties (True)   They rather see us doing drugs then robberies (True)   We gotta flip that into the economy (You)   So my philosophy is the way of the world   Lets play monopoly      Gotta Monopolize & Strategize   So we can get this money   Get filthy rich   Thugication, Streetsweepers   C'mon man   East Coast pop a bottle with y'all    West Coast pop a bottle with y'all   Down South pop a bottle with y'all   Count your blessings you ain't promised them all