[Tracey Horton - Intro] (Rakim)   La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah   La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah (Uh...yeah...)   (This is for the haters...keep hatin)   La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah   La-da-da-dah, la-da-da-dah   (It's what we call money music, right here)   (Uh, yeah, let's go in)      [Rakim - Verse 1ne]   I perform in cities, hoods, and slums, the best seller is drugs   And money is the only thing that get love   They say don't let it make you, but that's how they rate you   And the more you got, the more they hate you (That's okay too!)   Just don't get in the way, 'cause at the end of the day   My agenda's make sure I get them ends to get paid (uh-huh)   So I'm stackin grands 'til the math expand   It's the man with the master plan   Since the Bambino, cash made my path cross with evil   Uno dos cinco on a crowded corner rollin c-lo   To chips and the chick in the casino pourin Cliquot   'Cause now I make music for the c-notes   From New York to Puerto Rico, California to Rio   Hit the streets like the kilo but I'm legal   It's swga like I walk with heat though with all my people   But it's just me and my alter ego      [Chorus: Tracey Horton]   I walk these streets, wit my mind on my plan   It's alright if you don't understand   I walk these streets, think like I got a gun in my hand   'cause hatin is the nature of man   (Sometimes I wanna, stop the cameras, just pop the hammer   Box the innocent bystander and his man up)   I walk these streets, think like I got a gun in my hand   It's alright if you don't understand   Just stay outta my waaaay      [Maino - Verse 2wo]   MAINOOOOO~!   Yo, one for my comrades, two for my family   Three for the day that I run into my enemies   We gon' make a movie, the world gon' remember me   I survived it all dawg, what the hell you tellin me?   I remember days when, I was young and aidin   Cuttin class, chasin ass, couldn't pass grades and   Chillin on the block then, listenin to Rakim   Back of his album filled up with Killer Ben   Supreme Magnetic and I wasn't athletic   But I ran around with the Tre-8 Magnetic   Money on my mind, crack vials in my Levi's   Been a dog since I had the cream colored Filas (Hahahah!)   Yeah, yeah, we fly, seen it all with these eyes   Gunplay and drugs if you put my mind on rewind   Fast forward my life, ya boy done MADE IT!   If I could do it over, I wouldn't CHANGED IT!      [Chorus]      [Rakim - Verse 3hree]   (Ay, good lookin out my dude)   Aiyyo Maino, it's the same ol' same ol'   Don't matter if you in it for the fame or you lay low   Haters gon' hate but, it's okay though (Keep doin what you ddo)   The angle is make sure the payroll stay swoll   Big faces, cake dough and di-nay-ros   Rubels, yen yang, euros and pesos   Seven digit figures, tryna make more zay-ros   Spray holes in whoever in the way so (Stay outta my waaaay)   While I count the next bundle (that's right)   "All means necessary," Malcolm X hustle   A threat yet humble, about to flex muscle   Get a big amount then I'm in and out the next jungle   'Cause every other day, I'm in another state   It's like I cross the thin line between love and hate   But I gotta eat, gotta get another plate   So I'm on my cake walk for the cake      [Chorus]      Just stay outta my waaaay..   (It's what they do..)   Just stay outta my waaaay..