What that nigga want God?   Word up, look out for the cops   (Cash Rules)   Word up, two for fives over here baby   Word up, two for fives them niggaz got garbage down the way   Word up, know what I'm sayin''?   (Cash Rules Everything Around Me, C.R.E.A.M. get)   Yeah, check this ol' fly shit out, word up   (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)   Take you on a natural joint   (C.R.E.A.M. get the money)   Here we here we go   (Dollar, dollar bill y'all)   Check this shit, yo!      I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side   Stayin' alive was no jive   At second hands, moms bounced on old men   So then we moved to Shaolin land   A young youth, yo rockin' the gold tooth, 'Lo goose   Only way, I begin to gee off was drug loot   And let's start it like this son, rollin' with this one   And that one, pullin' out gats for fun      But it was just the dream for the teen, who was a fiend   Started smokin' woolies at sixteen   And runnin' up in gates, and doin' hits for high stakes   Makin' my way on fire escapes   No question I would speed, for cracks and weed   The combination made my eyes bleed   No question I would flow off, and try to get the dough all   Stickin' up white boys in ball courts      My life got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater   Times is ruff and tuff like leather   Figured out I went the wrong route   So I got with a sick ass click and went all out   Catchin' keys from across seas   Rollin' in MPV's, every week we made forty G's   Yo nigga respect mine, or anger the tech nine   Ch-chick-pow! Move from the gate now      Cash Rules Everything Around Me   C.R.E.A.M., get the money   Dollar, dollar bill y'all      Cash Rules Everything Around Me   C.R.E.A.M., get the money   Dollar, dollar bill y'all      It's been twenty-two long hard years of still strugglin'   Survival got me buggin', but I'm alive on arrival   I peep at the shape of the streets   And stay awake to the ways of the world 'cuz shit is deep   A man with a dream with plans to make C.R.E.A.M.   Which failed, I went to jail at the age of 15   A young buck sellin' drugs and such who never had much   Tryin' to get a clutch at what I could not      The court played me short, now I face incarceration   Pacin', goin' up state's my destination   Handcuffed in back of a bus, forty of us   Life as a shorty shouldn't be so ruff   But as the world turns I learned life is Hell   Livin' in the world no different from a cell   Everyday I escape from Jakes givin' chase, sellin' base   Smokin' bones in the staircase      Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess   I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed   But I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth?   Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth   Who explained working hard may help you maintain   To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain   We got stickup kids, corrupt cops, and crack rocks   And stray shots, all on the block that stays hot      Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof   To kick the truth to the young black youth   But shorty's runnin' wild smokin' sess drinkin' beer   And ain't tryin' to hear what I'm kickin' in his ear   Neglected, but now, but yo, it gots to be accepted   That what? That life is hectic      Cash Rules Everything Around Me   C.R.E.A.M., get the money   Dollar, dollar bill y'all      Cash Rules Everything Around Me   (Niggas gots to do what they gotta do, to get a bill)   C.R.E.A.M., get the money   Dollar, dollar bill y'all   (Ya know what I'm sayin''?)      Cash Rules Everything Around Me   ('Cuz we can't just get by no more)   C.R.E.A.M., get the money   Dollar, dollar bill y'all   (Word up, we gotta get over, straight up and down)      Cash Rules Everything Around Me   C.R.E.A.M., get the money   Dollar, dollar bill y'all      Cash Rules Everything Around Me   C.R.E.A.M., get the money   Dollar, dollar bill y'all      Cash Rules Everything Around Me   C.R.E.A.M., get the money   Dollar, dollar bill y'all      Cash Rules Everything Around Me   C.R.E.A.M., get the money   Dollar, dollar bill y'all      Cash Rules Everything Around Me   C.R.E.A.M., get the money   Dollar, dollar bill y'all, oh yeah