[00:07.04]（Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[00:08.35]C.R.E.A.M. get...）
[00:08.98]Yeah, check this ol fly shit out
[00:11.10]Word up
[00:13.73]（Cash Rules Everything Around Me） Take you on a natural joint
[00:18.41]（C.R.E.A.M. get the money） Here we here we go
[00:25.56]（dolla dolla bill y'all） Check this shit, yo!
[00:27.49]I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side
[00:30.20]Staying alive was no jive
[00:31.82]Had second hands, moms bounced on old man
[00:34.82]So then we moved to Shaolin land
[00:36.94]A young youth, yo rockin the gold tooth, 'Lo goose
[00:40.01]Only way, I begin to G' off was drug loot
[00:42.63]And let's start it like this son, rollin with this one
[00:45.95]And that one, pullin out gats for fun
[00:48.13]But it was just a dream for the teen, who was a fiend
[00:51.76]Started smokin woolies at sixteen
[00:53.26]And running up in gates, and doing hits for high stakes
[00:56.26]Making my way on fire escapes
[00:58.57]No question I would speed, for cracks and weed
[01:01.70]The combination made my eyes bleed
[01:03.88]No question I would flow off, and try to get the dough off
[01:07.82]Sticking up white boys in ball courts
[01:09.57]My life got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater
[01:13.01]Times is rough and tough like leather
[01:14.88]Figured out I went the wrong route
[01:17.26]So I got with a sick tight clique and went all out
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[01:21.15]Catchin keys from across seas
[01:22.59]Rollin in MPV's, every week we made forty G's
[01:25.77]Yo brothas respect mine, or anger the tech nine
[01:28.59]Ch-POW! Move from the gate now
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[01:30.65]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[01:32.46]C.R.E.A.M.
[01:32.71]Get the money
[01:34.09]Dollar, dollar bill y'all
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[01:35.96]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[01:38.09]C.R.E.A.M.
[01:38.84]Get the money
[01:39.46]Dollar, dollar bill y'all
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[01:41.27]It's been 22 long hard years and still strugglin
[01:43.90]Survival got me buggin, but I'm alive on arrival
[01:46.52]I peep at the shape of the streets
[01:49.02]And stay awake to the ways of the world cause shit is deep
[01:51.85]A man with a dream with plans to make C.R.E.A.M.
[01:54.54]Which failed; I went to jail at the age of 15
[01:57.04]A young buck sellin drugs and such who never had much
[02:00.04]Trying to get a clutch at what I could not touch
[02:02.17]
[02:02.98]The court played me short, now I face incarceration
[02:06.79]
[02:07.73]Pacin', going up state's my destination
[02:08.85]Handcuffed in back of a bus, 40 of us
[02:11.04]Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough
[02:12.98]But as the world turns I learned life is Hell
[02:15.68]Living in the world, no different from a cell
[02:17.81]
[02:18.49]Everyday I escape from Jakes givin chase, sellin base
[02:20.56]
[02:21.12]Smokin bones in the staircase
[02:22.43]Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess
[02:26.43]I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed
[02:28.43]
[02:29.06]But I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth?
[02:31.74]Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth
[02:33.81]
[02:34.49]Who explained working hard may help you maintain
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[02:37.06]to learn to overcome the heartaches and pain
[02:39.56]We got stickup kids, corrupt cops, and crack rocks
[02:41.74]
[02:42.24]and stray shots, all on the block that stays hot
[02:44.56]
[02:45.12]Leave it up to me while I be living proof
[02:47.56]To kick the truth to the young black youth
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[02:50.40]But shorty's running wild, smokin sess, drinkin beer
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[02:53.09]And ain't trying to hear what I'm kickin in his ear
[02:55.77]Neglected for now, but yo, it gots to be accepted
[02:58.84]That what? That life is hected
[03:00.90]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[03:03.21]C.R.E.A.M.
[03:03.84]get the money
[03:04.59]Dolla dolla bill
[03:05.77]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[03:08.40]C.R.E.A.M.
[03:09.09]get the money
[03:10.09]Dolla dolla bill
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[03:11.71]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[03:14.15]C.R.E.A.M.
[03:14.46]get the money
[03:15.46]Dolla dolla bill
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[03:17.03]Cash Rules Everything Around Me
[03:19.09]C.R.E.A.M.
[03:19.42]get the money
[03:20.60]Dolla dolla bill
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