For the love of money We would do most anything Anything For a taste of honey We would do it all again All again, yeah We got tall, tall buildings, we got streets of gold Cheats and liars, our friends get old Bright, bright diamonds that shine like shame Green, green acres and God's good name For the love of money We would sell our very souls Goodness knows Start acting funny Do anything that we're told That we're told, yeah We got fools with britches getting fat on lies Nothing but trouble here in paradise Deal's in the making, you just name your price If your soul's for sale, you just name your vice Don't need to tell you that money can buy you love Love Once you get money then you'll never have enough No For the love of money We will climb the highest hill Yes, we will Turn your back on buddy For a greenback dollar bill Dollar bill, yeah Love of money Love of money, yeah Love of money Love of money, yeah Love of money Love of money, yeah What a take, man Yeah

I'll bet you the wine is fine And I'll bet you the diamonds are real And I'll bet you his house is a big one Up on the hill Hey, that's where he's got me girl And not that I blame you at all Now don't say you're sorry Just go and have you a ball 'Cause I ain't got his kind of money And I probably never will But I got a buck that says His twenties and his hundred dollar bills Ain't gonna satisfy you forever They can only buy so much I ain't got his kind of money But he ain't got my kind of love Who's gonna bait your hook? Who's gonna get lost in your eyes? Who's gonna throw that ball That wins you the prize? Yeah, who's gonna kiss you good night? Make it last all night long? Yeah, who's gonna be there When he's always gone? No, I ain't got his kind of money And I probably never will But I got a buck that says His twenties and his hundred dollar bills Ain't gonna satisfy you forever They can only buy so much I ain't got his kind of money But he ain't got my kind of love He can buy you all he wants to But girl I ain't sold So keep my number handy 'Cause I think we both know I ain't got his kind of money And I probably never will But I got a buck that says His twenties and his hundred dollar bills Ain't gonna satisfy you forever They can only buy so much I ain't got his kind of money But he ain't got my kind of love I ain't got his kind of money But you're gonna miss my kind of love You gonna miss it baby, ha! That's right, my kind of love

Just because I (love you), yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, (Just because I love you), yeah Peel in my second whip Stealing, putting second hand kills in my residence Healed all my brethren with a seal, we can't let you in Medicine I put the effort in to still burn at effigy Odorous, I'm sober, just as lil as they letting me Mama, wipe your tears, I'm fighting titans, can't invite you here Poetic license veering from the mic, my chest too tight to steer Chess lessons, bloodletting, flood when the night is clear I ain't give a fuck 'til my lungs had to fight for air Glaring, staring numb, therapist had a life to spare Snatched me by the eye said I'ma fight whether I like or not And she told me reasons why, but that's the private part Burnt the midnight lighter Killed the drive in me to tie the knot My game slop but if I name-dropped you, you still got my heart Driving off Squeezing off the E-brake these days I can't talk to god just for my knees sake Long conversations to be had Wrong places wrong times and Strong patience I must add Soul weighted don't mistake expatiations for some sadness A strong face, a long race I'm unafraid to come in last Quarter tank and ounce of gas and I'm driving And it's just because I (love you) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Look, I'm back at it glad bags and flat backs a pack rat A crass habit crash flashing scratch that im past rapping I'ma show off In a scar competition Flaunting close calls when you cook you can't regress back to the store bought I hope you keepin' me in mind I hope you shakin' I hope you still analyzin' hard as I made you As hard as I make it love that I'm armed with broad and it's brazen Arguing with mom cause I'm always gone when i stay here She said it's just because I love you That I see you out here poisoning yourself and want it for you And I love you better than i love myself my fruit is spoiled And it's not a game I put it in your name I kinda told you And I nodded and I took it to the bank and I deposit And I dropped it and I looked into the mirror said "oh Mavi" You coarser and you closer the rhythm that's inside And I warped you in the interest of design It's just because i love you Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye Clasp the windows to my soul Smoke thicken grab my mental by the throat Mind sifting tides shift it's still cement around my toes Saran wrap around my pack i can't trust get hand to hand served w a hand behind my back They prayed for us, ain't heard the answer but my glance is in the stash It's growing handsome by the stack i self aggrandized in the past but now the sun talking Not sure of where i'm going but i'm blunt walking In life or in this hood so keep a look for 911 callers I fund loss 'cause i'm from loss You gut me then it's no love lost You spun me into crumbles fingers numbing from the bloodloss I've endured The moral of my story is I'm impure The horror in my story is I've been through it and i still do it And my pencil is in earnest the difference tween u hearing the new records from my service The medicine I'm burning turned my breath into a furnace Whole face hot Shoulders hold weight till i break pace and can't stop So baby i could change your life, if you let me Tryna eat ain't really crave a bite since gained insight from desi So i stay inside away from light Hoping that your prayers reach Loathing that i can't breathe Croaking when i can't speak Was open with my grandscheme You was either with me or in my way plow through standees We sprouting now we plant seeds You plant love love will grow You plant fear fear a grow If you planted me then me would grow But i was branded negro I got slanted before relegated to preshow I started with wine then to the clear then to the nino Then to everclear and never steering without prerolls And I just had the presets to preceptor me bro I bleed presence And preach lessons All for free too And I offer free smoke to any nigga behind a #MeToo 'Cause tell my niggas: we ain't free until she free too Tell my niggas: we ain't free until she free too Tell my niggas: we ain't free until she free too And tell my sisters: we ain't free until they free too Tell my niggas: we ain't free until she free too Today free too, to... we... too

This sound different in the headphones but fuck it Ay, ay Fathers get surprised when they don't hear from you Same fathers thinking that they lies just don't appear to you Same fathers goin' through they lives without a shred of truth Pained fathers cheatin' on they wives without a hint of guilt Rest in peace to granny, to your brother, and your mama My lesson stings 'cause family structure built around your drama I'm sorry to my brothers as they grow up like I grew up With a dungeon as they hell, and they heaven in the sewers Was 11 when I grew up My mama told me "You hit rock bottom," I ain't even blink "Twice I told you 'bout your problem brawler, you ain't even think" Twice smack across my fuckin' face and I can't even love right My bitch ain't doin' nothing wrong and I can't even love right My ink is begging for this song and I can't even love write You throwin' channels 'cross my room and all I got this one mic I got a fuckin grass tattooed, and Ion' even love fight I can't even find it in me Ay, ay I'm dodgin' you, my mama whining wit' me, Ion' got the time to hit her Ion' got the patience for the love of my life I say I trust her, but I'm fakin' just to trudge through the night I say I love her, but I'm vacant when I discover my plight My whole perception of her changes when its drugs in my sight Or when its drugs in her eyes Or when she wit' bitches Ion' trust Or when I venture too far Or when it ventures too rough And when these bitches do call I don't intend to pick up I know these niggas get at you I know one day you gon' get out I push the truth through the South This shit just flew through my mouth This was no act in my doing, I don't know who this about I don't know who gonna hear this And I'm approaching 18 I'm losing youth in my spirit And I'm approaching gangrene That's just how I'm shooting my feet I'm at a school I can't pay for I'm off a boot I can't stay for I'm with a group I ain't made for I ask myself "What this pain for?" I ask myself "What death waitin' on?" I ask myself

This that shit that we ride to, ayy This that skin you travel time through That ginger juice fronto Journalism gonzo, us herded in the Apollo Our spaceship at full throttle This that stardust play with sunlight This that Kel-Tec carbine with no gun license This that nigga make you laugh like Martin 'cause he done fightin' This that nigga tilt on the whole world to see it from one side This that cuddle with your kush nightly This that I'm scared of my brother 'cause he just like me This that cookout, all we bump Isleys Gon' be a baby next year, all that bump and grindin' Yeah, yeah I can't write all the time 'cause I can't lie I put a price on this shit 'cause it's all mine They tell you ownership ain't everything, but bro, just try Without that safety button, corduroy brunt to bear, come alive I can't tell you everything we been gettin' in as of late I still got little brothers and mother look in the face I'm from a city southern, encumbered different by Jakes It ain't no hip-hop, police gon' come up missin' wishin' for cases I hate to see him pained, someone come up, missin' for dame I'm seeing chins at different angle Fakes poppin' shit to relate to me I'm just polite enough to where my people ain't ashamed of me But niggas ride enough to where these niggas know, don't play with me I'm tryna buy the Hornets, y'all tell Mike to Calvin Cambridge me The toe box in them Jordans to fill ain't big as the mayor seat Often I'd be embarrassed over how brazen I be But it beats bein' embarrassed over how lazy they be I locked myself in this lil' cage so they ain't me We wasn't able to get the harvest, that's plantin' Cain seeds Bada-bang black analogues who I hang with Identify with Aang, last of a clade 'cause we the same shit This that crushed Volkswagen door Because I always lose when I gain shit Took the total to the face, my frame ain't cave in, thankful Ain't nothing but a little character what that pain prove This that love from a awkward angle Cracks in my family like ceramics and commandments too But if you touch my chain, you'll perish like Thor hammer too Mjölnir, niggas with different charges stayin' static-proof Been doing this shit way before the money, ain't got that to lose My whole cachet just the cacophony heard inside cacao cocoons Tryna milk my fuckin' cow, it float around the moon My 40 acres metaphorical, I'm whipped like a mule But this that shit that we ride to, yeah This that skin you travel time through That ginger juice fronto Journalism gonzo, us herded in the Apollo Our spaceship at full throttle This that stardust play with sunlight This that Kel-Tec carbine with no gun license This that nigga make you laugh like Martin 'cause he done fightin' This that nigga tilt on the whole world to see it from one side (We are people, we are people) (People who can travel time, who can travel time) (We are people, we are people) (People who can travel time, who can travel time) Hey, Mavi, what happened? You hung up on me, or the phone ran out Go ahead and eat your food now Eat your food while it hot You can call me back later Alright, love you, grandma

Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah Man Another hundred thousand miles, another step I saved up for some but now it's nothin' left Went from buildin' love to buildin' guns up, now my brother's steppas In case we run into that pace I pray it come in leverage I made it this far from my gifts, my strengths was never effort So even at other niggas best, I know it's something better Made commitment to kinships, fail every time at friendship Cause niggas accountability philic 'til lenses flippin' I get it Me and Nadira in a king-sized bed watchin' Make sure my gold teeth hidden in case the feds watchin' Mix a bloodstream like mine with liq' and it'll leg lock you It just make me wanna look through every pocket I play unreleased at your pad, smackin' niggas they ain't head noddin' This shit hard is fuck bro you dead wildin' Like my shit swole up, no beefing we talk cold cuts Me and Sideshow jewelry district, Palacio, getting our gold up Like hold up Four deep, big ass explorer, rollin' dope up New York bound, stop in DC for funnel 'cause I'm nostalgic If I have too many flashbacks, I'll have to floor it outta here Damn near could buy mom crib out the garage, recordin' out here How I was born out here I'm from the country, farmer blood, ain't growin' corn out here In the upper west, our roof the best she wanna make a porn out here Couldn't tell the future, told her God the only choreographer It's some shit to tour out here, it's a lower floor out here They last love was categorizin', not no more I'm clear Head and shoulders, medication Cola pour turn red Just if I need a treat, bro these labels know don't hit my phone I'ma need a leash And we gon' need a beat while power make your powder creatine When she said shit was unreasonable Knew it was shit she ain't see I know that I'm the original, expected you lean on me I could walk to the end of Earth I get there, still hear the screams Echoes on a hollow rock Heads roll on the chopping block I wonder how God feel Echoes on a hollow rock Heads roll on the chopping block I wonder how God feel about it Echoes on a hollow rock Heads roll on the chopping block I wonder how God feel Echoes on a hollow rock Heads roll on the chopping block (... rich nigga) (We gotta the true legends, y'all, true legends) (I ain't no legend, I'm blo... nigga) (What the fuck are you talking abo-?)