[00:00.70] What that nigga want God? [00:03.72] Word up, look out for the cops (Wu-Tang five finger shit) [00:07.09] (Cash Rules) Word up, two for fives over here baby [00:09.66] Word up, two for fives them niggas got garbage down the way, word up [00:12.62] Know what I'm sayin'? [00:14.83] (Cash Rules Everything Around Me C.R.E.A.M. get) [00:17.15] Yeah, check this ol' fly shit out [00:20.70] Word up [00:21.71] (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) Take you on a natural joint [00:24.34] (C.R.E.A.M. get the money) Here we here we go [00:25.50] (Dolla dolla bill y'all) Check this shit, yo! [00:27.64] I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side [00:30.72] Staying alive was no jive [00:32.47] At second hands, moms bounced on old men [00:35.51] So then we moved to Shaolin land [00:37.64] A young youth, yo rockin' the gold tooth, 'Lo goose [00:40.73] Only way, I begin to gee off was drug loot [00:43.63] And let's start it like this son, rollin' with this one [00:46.61] And that one, pullin' out gats for fun [00:48.94] But it was just a dream for the teen, who was a fiend [00:52.08] Started smokin' woolies at sixteen [00:54.30] And running up in gates, and doing hits for high stakes [00:57.48] Making my way on fire escapes [00:59.78] No question I would speed, for cracks and weed [01:02.65] The combination made my eyes bleed [01:05.05] No question I would flow off, and try to get the dough all [01:08.10] Sticking up white boys in ball courts [01:10.44] My life got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater [01:13.61] Times is ruff and tuff like leather [01:15.79] Figured out I went the wrong route [01:17.55] So I got with a sick ass click and went all out [01:21.02] Catchin' keys from across seas [01:22.82] Rollin in MPV's, every week we made forty G's [01:26.44] Yo nigga respect mine, or anger the tech nine [01:29.28] Ch-chick-POW! Wu from the gate now [01:31.34] Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me [01:33.38] C.R.E.A.M. [01:33.74] Get the money [01:34.74] Dollar, dollar bill y'all [01:36.79] Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me [01:38.79] C.R.E.A.M. [01:39.05] Get the money [01:40.04] Dollar, dollar bill y'all [01:41.71] It's been twenty-two long hard years of still strugglin [01:44.53] Survival got me buggin, but I'm alive on arrival [01:47.96] I peep at the shape of the streets [01:49.65] And stay awake to the ways of the world cause shit is deep [01:52.55] A man with a dream with plans to make C.R.E.A.M. [01:54.90] Which failed I went to jail at the age of 15 [01:57.66] A young buck sellin' drugs and such who never had much [02:00.60] Trying to get a clutch at what I could not, could not, [02:03.39] The court played me short, now I face incarceration [02:06.06] Pacin' going up state's my destination [02:08.79] Handcuffed in back of a bus, forty of us [02:11.47] Life as a shorty shouldn't be so ruff [02:13.93] But as the world turns I learned life is hell [02:16.72] Living in the world no different from a cell [02:19.37] Everyday I escape from Jakes givin' chase, sellin' base [02:22.66] Smokin' bones in the staircase [02:24.64] Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess [02:27.26] I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed [02:29.51] But I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth? [02:32.67] Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth [02:35.08] Who explained working hard may help you maintain [02:37.87] To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain [02:40.75] We got stickup kids, corrupt cops, and crack rocks [02:43.24] And stray shots, all on the block that stays hot [02:46.04] Leave it up to me while I be living proof [02:48.50] To kick the truth to the young black youth [02:51.18] But shorty's running wild smokin sess drinkin' beer [02:53.94] And ain't trying to hear what I'm kickin in his ear [02:56.69] Neglected, but now, but yo, it gots to be accepted [02:59.83] That what? That life is hectic [03:01.98] Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me [03:03.91] C.R.E.A.M. [03:04.36] Get the money [03:05.35] Dollar, dollar bill y'all [03:07.36] Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me [03:09.02] C.R.E.A.M. [03:09.65] Get the money [03:10.33] Dollar, dollar bill y'all [03:12.62] Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me [03:14.74] C.R.E.A.M. [03:15.00] Get the money [03:15.90] Dollar, dollar bill y'all [03:18.31] Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me [03:19.92] C.R.E.A.M. [03:20.33] Get the money [03:21.39] Dollar, dollar bill y'all [03:24.68] [03:34.08] Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me [03:36.07] C.R.E.A.M. [03:36.35] Get the money [03:37.30] Dollar, dollar bill y'all [03:39.33] Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me [03:41.24] C.R.E.A.M. [03:41.66] Get the money [03:42.69] Dollar, dollar bill y'all [03:44.78] Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me [03:46.60] C.R.E.A.M. [03:46.99] Get the money [03:48.06] Dollar, dollar bill y'all [03:50.04] Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me [03:51.99] C.R.E.A.M. [03:52.29] Get the money [03:53.33] Dollar, dollar bill y'all [03:55.80] Ohh [03:57.36] Yeahh [03:57.89]