(Cause it's better to have money and not to need it
than to need it and not to have it
and there's a good place in this world for money, yes sirie

and I know where it is, it's right here in my pocket
- Hey, gimme some
- You're talkin' just like a pimp

...
- Answer him, answer him
- I don't get mad at people like that

You know why? Cause he's a revolutionary)

[VERSE 1: Key-Kool (patterned after Ice Cube's "Gangsta Gangsta" verse)]

Here's a little somethin' 'bout a MC like me
Dropped "Kosmonauts" and "Galleries" independently
Key-Kool, I likes to say

That I'm a fresh lyricist from around the way
Since I was a youth, a straight b-boy
Now I'm takin' out all the sucker decoys

Flippin' a rhyme or two, that's what the hell I do
You don't like how I'm livin', well ( *scratch* ) you
This is hip-hop and I'm in it

My man Rhett will cut you up in a minute
With a cut, stab [?] so (funky)
And then he blames his crew the Beat Junkies

Everywhere we go they say (damn)
Visionaries is [scratch] up the program
And then you realize that we all care

For those who just don't know we're throwin' V's in the air
And keep makin' straight up (sh...)
Does it look like I have to make a hit?

To a major label that wanna sign me
Rap ain't nothin' but a way to make money
But I'm the type of MC that's built to last

If you wanna pimp me I put my foot in your $$#
See, I don't give a [scratch] how many records you're sellin'
Yo, what the [scratch] are they yellin?


Make money money, make money money money
Make money money, make money money money


[Rhettmatic cuts up]
[D-Nice] (Self sufficient, independent)

[KRS-One] (It's not about) (reality)
(It's all about) (a salary)
(Self sufficient, independent)

[Erick Sermon] (I just get down and I go for mine)
(Self sufficient, independent)
[Rakim] (But now I learn to earn cause I'm righteous)

(Self sufficient, independent)

[VERSE 2: Key-Kool]

Just like King Midas, as I was told
In this rappin' Olympics fools are rushin' for gold
With or without cold, better change your mold

Tryin' to be down with dough on the yellow brick road
Wizard of Oz complex is goin' for the riches
No heart, no brain, cowardly loss to the (*##$es

Too weak to lead, so they're followin'
Week-kneed MC's now only suck to swallowin'
Fallin' in the trap of big money crap

The only real big baller who started rappin' is Shaq
They act large but it's evident
You only make minimum percent unless you're the president

I'm on self-empowerment, so others'll pay me rent
And I can control my artistic intentions
Make investments, count all my blessings

See the Age of Aquarius, a fifth dimension
Comprehension like Babu
Dynamic like the Duo, it's the two you know

Key-Kool and Rhettmatic always come well equipped
And like a club in Manila we'll make your whole party flip


[Rhettmatic cuts up]
[D-Nice] (Self sufficient, independent)
[KRS-One] (It's not about) (reality)

(It's all about) (a salary)
(Self sufficient, independent)
[Erick Sermon] (I just get down and I go for mine)
(Self sufficient, independent)
[Rakim] (But now I learn to earn cause I'm righteous)

(Self sufficient, independent)
[D-Nice] (The rap race will be lost without a trace)
(Self sufficient, independent)