Money Matters - J-Live

Ayo, your world, my world, same shit, different day

Different shit, same toilet, paper gotta circulate

Just to keep the water flushing, stove hot, fridge cold

Cabinets full, clothes clean, quarters for the wash and fold

Kids grow bigger so the gear grow, tight and old

Inflation triggers so the prices grow

Go figure, bills like Williams and your will’s like debt

That lives longer than you, collectors never forget

And you set assets so your child’s regrets

Diamonds begets, get, got before closure threats

These are grown folks fears swinging over your head

Better that than the water you continue to tread

And a job you continue to dread

Better yet they say

''Love your work and never work a day in your life''

They say «be your own boss and you doing it right»

I say «shit, whatever gets you through it at night»

Because doctors, dealers, even MCs

Ponder on all life’s complexities

But can’t see the forest for the evergreen trees

So they collect leaves, but when collects leave

Doctors, dealers, even MCs

Roll up their sleeves and put in work

You gotta hold on tight just to climb that ladder

With your mind on your money and money, money matters

Money matters, money matters

Yeah, money matters, but it’s mind over matter

So I’mma live forever now, how about you?

Yeah, wanna live better now, fuck a Coogi sweater now

Gotta save your cheddar now

Money, cash, bread, dough rise like geese

Whether you fast or feast

Whoever save the most need least and vice versa

How you putting things over self and health?

You got no time on your watch, no money in your purse

Put your cash down, son, I’m talking 'bout wealth money

Grip or you working for yours, well, get it in

Let it do what it do cause we ain’t finna win

Unless the money work for you

And please know that old money bitch-slap new

Like the gold that you used to

Be backed by, now the weed that fly

My people mining mind on the gold, but their gold ain’t mines

So I’mma say «nice try, better luck next time»

You want a long dollar then maybe just invest that dime

So a lemon to a lime, a lime to a lemon

You fucking with my money I’mma turn into a gremlin

A lime to a lemon, a lemon to a lime

Same way that time is money, money is time

I said a lemon to a lime, a lime to a lemon

When you wasting your money that’s the start of your ending

A lime to a lemon, a lemon to a lime

Same way that time is money, money is time

And you can turn bread to fish or water to wine

But can’t turn back the sundial from ten to nine

You can throw on a throwback and press rewind

But it’ll never be the same sunshine

Looking up long enough you might just go blind

These are not just rhymes

These are facts, I don’t just throw pine

But if your past keep you from presently planning for the future

You’re a pawn that’ll never see the eight ring line

I’m trying to raise two queens and protect the king

Since a rook like Bishop I’ve been doing my thing

Every night and I know every game ceases

I’d rather be the hand that moves the pieces