Money Good - Talib Kweli

When the money come it’s sweet as a honeybun

But when the money gone they hide like a honeycomb

They tell you get your education

Nigga, go to college

They colonizing your mind like Rhodesia

What you, a Rhodes scholar?

They never tell you that degree is just a receipt

You be paying off them loans til you’re 6 feet deep

Peep

In my environment every snitch gon' have to die

You ask me why

Cuz my entitlement is American as apple pie

It’s hard to get a check, it’s easy to get in debt

Then get it wet

You could get a little head for a little bread

That shit is dead

Get by, get over

You gotta get ahead or be back in the shelter by 12 so you can get a bed

The conditions you raised in is preyin on your decision-making

You concentrating on that short paper

The broad paper, that hard candy, that jaw breaker

The dark side of the force pay for that Lord Vader

How you tell a nigga from the hood?

We on the Dirty, Sexy Money like Blair Underwood

My money good (x4)

Can’t touch it

It’s only human to want to look

Money talk

My shit be tellin everyone to shhh

My money good (x4)

The millionaire musician a fairly recent phenomenon

Before there was musicians performing on the street corners

Out in the deep forest

The city drop the beat, the night air sing a sweet chorus

The trees lean toward us in order to take in the CO2 that we let out and

convert it into oxygen

Every time you blow a breath out you start the cycle again

Recycle the wind, spin it any way you want it

It’s priceless, this life is a blessing

No matter how you slice it or dice it, you can grill it like a swordfish

A beautiful mind, the bars gorgeous

I know I’m a suspect

When I’m walking and the streets is like my office

We the working class artists

They wishin that we was porpoise

But I know my worth

Tell em to make an offer of gold first

I’m in the fight of my life and I’m taking the whole purse

Soul search

For getting paid for creating the cold verse

Got the money on my mind

Tryna escape and it don’t work

Church

Repeat chorus