Money Is Everything

Money is everything, money is everything Money, money, money, money, money, money, money Money is everything Money is everything, money is everything Money, money, money, money, money, money, money Money is everything Now think about it, isn't it a coincidence Everybody wants them dead presidents? See those that don't have it love jackin' you head to toe And people that's clockin' a grip, always eager to make more Cause money can help your heart, and money can help you out But if you're makin' too much of it, then money can help you die And ain't that scary like Jason You can't win for losin' cause of the grip that you're makin' Now this particular paper is like the power to the greedy And a God to the hungry, keepin' life in the needy And so we're brainwashed thinkin' of it But don't get me wrong, cause I love it I used to like George Washington's way back when Now I'm sprung on Benjamin Franklins And with these people I could go on Like so on, and so on, and so on, trip Who bought your clothes and who bought your food? Who bought your hoe and who bought your dude? Cut the bullshit, tell me who you tryin' to kid? Cause you didn't buy shit, your money did, get the picture? Money is everything, money is everything Money, money, money, money, money, money, money Money is everything There once lived a low-income woman with a child Lookin' for single men with money she could date Finally met a man that her daughter called Daddy But homies comin' up short on the stakes She let him be Daddy for awhile, cause the dicks good Plus he's fine and all swole lookin' bounty But that don't mean shit when you're broke and you're hungry That's why daughter's Daddy's new name is Mr. County Check, this out, they say it's the root of all evil And I could truly say in this case A friend of mine was makin' that big time lunch meat But then he made a small time lunch meat mistake Cause soon homie lost all his love for the small life Forgot all of which he had came from before And started gettin' greedy so another man sent a little bullet And the bullet read, my homie had to go cause he thought Money is everything, money is everything Money, money, money, money, money, money, money Money is everything Now do you remember, when your elders used to scream And tell you money ain't everything They said it couldn't buy that, and it couldn't buy this But money bought me everything that I'm gone get Why is it, that all the fine freaks seem to jock it? And it keeps me smilin' when I got it in my pockets? Got a Christmas treat for my kids and a tree seen And yes to impress them hoochie females And since it builds up my confidence Hurry, hurry, for the dollars and cents As far as it goes keep it comin', and Oh, how I like it in a woman I like to see freaks when their hair is nice With a good wig, tight clothes, sportin' fourteen K's Now how in the Hell do you get it? Money, money, money, money, money, so get with it Now it's a shame when you lame as a zero Cause blacks, whites, as well as Mexicans want Dinero And why you tryin' to win the lottery? Cause money's everything it's gotta be, so now you know Money is everything, money is everything Money, money, money, money, money, money, money Money is everything