[00:02.59]Aiyyo  wassup wassup let's keep it real son
[00:04.15]Count this money  yaknowhatI'msayin
[00:06.15]Yea yea
[00:07.03]Aiyyo  put the Grant's over there in the safe yaknowhatI'msayin
[00:10.22]Yea yea
[00:10.53]Cause we spendin these Jackson's
[00:11.91]The Washington's go to wifey  you know how that go
[00:14.03]I'm sayin  that's what this is all about right
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[00:17.22]Clothes  bankrolls  and hoes yaknowhatI'msayin
[00:19.84]Yo then what man  what
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[00:21.71]Visualizin the realism of life and actuality
[00:23.09]
[00:23.72]F**k who's the baddest a person's status depends on salary
[00:26.85]And my mentality is  money orientated I'm destined to live
[00:30.22]The dream for all my peeps who never made it cause yeah
[00:33.04]We were beginners in the hood as five percenters But somethin
[00:35.16]Must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners Now some
[00:39.10]Restin in peace and some are sittin in San Quentin Others such
[00:41.60]As myself are tryin to carry on tradition Keepin the schwepervesence
[00:43.85]Street ghetto essence inside us Cause it provides us with the
[00:46.91]Proper insight to guide us Even though  we know somehow we
[00:50.10]All gotta go but as long as we leavin thievin we'll be leavin
[00:52.73]With some kind of dough so  and to that day we expire and
[00:55.41]Turn to vapors me and my capers'll be somewhere stackin plenty
[00:58.47]Papers Keepin it real  packin steel  gettin high
[01:01.41]Cause life's a bitch and then you die
[01:03.35]Life's a bitch and then you die
[01:06.22]That's why we get high Cause you never know
[01:08.60]When you're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die;
[01:11.79]That's why we puff lye Cause you never know when
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[01:14.85]You're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die;
[01:16.97]That's why we get high Cause you never know when
[01:19.10]You're gonna go Life's a bitch and then you die;
[01:21.22]That's why we puff ly
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[01:25.33]I woke up early on my born day  I'm twenty years
[01:27.90]Of blessing The essence of adolescent leaves my
[01:29.77]Body now I'm fresh in My physical frame is celebrated
[01:32.48]Cause I made it One quarter through life some God-ly
[01:35.11]Like thing created Got rhymes 365 days annual plus
[01:38.80]Some Load up the mic and bust one  cuss while I puffs
[01:43.45]From my skull cause it's pain in my brain vein money
[01:44.96]Maintain Don't go against the grain simple and plain
[01:46.64]When I was young at this I used to do my thing hard
[01:48.96]Robbin foreigners take they wallets they jewels and rip
[01:51.84]They green cards Dipped to the projects flashin my quick
[01:55.64]Cash and got my first piece of ass smokin blunts with
[01:58.52]Hash Now it's all about cash in abundance  niggaz I
[02:00.84]Used to run with is rich or doin years in the hundreds
[02:02.71]I switched my motto instead of sayin f**k tomorrow
[02:05.14]That buck that bought a bottle could've struck the
[02:07.84]Lotto Once I stood on the block  loose cracks produce
[02:10.39]Stacks I cooked up and cut small pieces to get my loot
[02:13.20]Back Time is Illmatic keep static like wool fabric
[02:15.91]Pack a four-matic that crack your whole cabbage