to everybody in the struggle if somebody ever told you that you couldn t do somethin and you still made it happen congratulations soul clap for all the independent women soul clap for all my homies straight thuggin clap for the real mcs buzzin we the leaders of the new school momma s in tha kitchen cookin that rice father s outside shootin them dice brother s in jail raisin hell sister s on the corner sellin fruit cocktail family alcoholics still sippin his booze that s why i m rappin over rhythm n blues to all you rich black folks wit ya glistenin jewels entrepreneurs all you millionare dudes before you catch another case limit your moves johnny cochran got a brain tumor i deliver the news what if mother nature aborted the sky when would we shoot our fireworks on the fourth of july we can t afford to live so abortions rise can t afford the truth so we told to lie can t afford a funeral cause the costs is high god damn we can t even afford to die but if you buyin a house i ll be your land lord i ll finance you a car that s if you can t afford i ll own the jails the banks and all the property here s a million come on big shot let s play monopoly cause when the rappers start grindin it s a shame a out of towner gotta sign them but when his album drop and he go diamond everybody beside him every real artist need a real label to sign them just like every good man need a good woman behind them it ain t about havin the baddest chick on the streets i respect the dude nas cause he married kelis but still if you ain t ready just wanna be my fianc than we could do it like jay z and beyonce pardon my language if you a real bitch than we could do it like jada and will smith coincidence where we come in to spin it at we in tha same place that we first got rich at they only gonna give us what they know they will get back so when you get money don t you ever forget that  he got a dvd flow they need to give me man smack his own tv show the voice of the jails voice of the streets kay slay s show should play seven days a week we pull guns on each other are we still peoples if you strapped and i m not strapped we still equal the say don t carry guns cause guns real lethal but guns don t kill people people kill people my cousin gotta do time he say it ain t nuthin told me i could do the time standin on my head cousin yo paps stay focused you out hear bustin by the time i come home you gonna be somethin i wish i could do half his time for him we go in there thuggin he do a year i do a year they run and concur it but still it s all about havin money and property true they d rather see us doin drugs and robberies true we gotta flip that into the economy you so my philosophy s the way of the world let s play monopoly you gotta monopolize and strategize so we can get this money get filthy rich thugacation street sweapers c mon man east coast pop a bottle wit y all west coast pop a bottle wit y all down south pop a bottle wit y all count your blessings you ain t promised tomorrow