Chorus (2x)
No money no problem more or less
From the failing schools to stop and frisk checks
Food deserts unemployment debt and stress
Kids bruised and neglected and left a mess
Verse 1
I got million dollar dreams and billion dollar plans
With 5 dollar friends and 10 dollar fans
I get more than at my job with an open hand
Standing on the street corner with an open can 4
It’s just hopeless man they said I dream too big
ThatsGoodness? you can’t do what Bad Boy did!
A nonprofit is lame you need Wall Street bids
I want to change up the game, make it safe for the kids 8
So I aim for the stars every bar I spit
Intergalactic lit up like zirconium chips
A got a massive … debt on a degree that sits
While I make waves and leave footprints 12
In the sand wondering how long they’ll last
It’s sad but true, promise not to laugh
(Promise not to laugh) I’m scared of success
So I don’t even try to blaze my own path 16
Chorus (2x)
No money no problem more or less
From the failing schools to stop and frisk checks
Food deserts unemployment debt and stress
Kids bruised and neglected and left a mess
Verse 2
I know just what these vampires want from me (bloodsuckers)
Less money in the bank more debt on the card
Repo car foreclosed sign in the yard
A habit and kids so I gotta go hard 4
They want to get me in the yard off a bad decision
Like I’m maxing with no arms head on collision
So much precision on this instrument
Music to your ears to their detriment 8
A rapper that don’t celebrate chains and ice?
Nah I rap about justice and human rights
There’s a lot of us Emcees keepers of the light
Spit for the cause like the freedom rides 12
Why lie in my rhyme I never moved weight
Chopped coke or bagged rocks most rap is fake
Promoting false images stereotypes blatant
Just wait ‘til they answer to Paul at the gates 16
Chorus (2x)
No money no problem more or less
From the failing schools to stop and frisk checks
Food deserts unemployment debt and stress
Kids bruised and neglected and left a mess
Verse 3
Okay most in the world are living check to check
Nah, most … ain’t even got a check to get
So I boast at shows how much I collect
Is it inspiration or disrespect? 4
Your house on my neck and that’s just one
I own too many to wear that’s just dumb
How about investing back in the hood where I’m from?
To the very same folk that made this plat-in-num 8
But to this plot I’m numb from smoke ‘til lungs pop
What I got from no pops like most on the block
And my emotions are blocked so I’m over the top
The rising tide verse old sea locks 12
I’m talking ‘bout change in some major ways
Most see an old man with locks and grays
They want to put him away or label him
Well I’m angry and black now let’s begin 16
Chorus (2x)
No money no problem more or less
From the failing schools to stop and frisk checks
Food deserts unemployment debt and stress
Kids bruised and neglected and left a mess