[intro: la the darkman(dj rogers & puff)]

Yeah. yeah. one. two.

Yeah. yeah. yeah. (oh)

Time for another cat get his money.

Ya'nah'mean? let's just stroll alone.

(havin moneyhavin money)

Word life. (havin money)



[la the darkman]

Yoyolife is hardso I dedicate to god

Mad cats sell coketryin not to starve

Young girls sell vagina from jersey to carolina

Saw moms do itshe learned it as a minor

In povertylife expectancy is short

Kids rob spotspush crack or play sports

In projectssingle parents homes and techs

Islambass-heads and welfare checks

I'm tryin to eatpushin wide-bodied whip through the streets

My whole fleet is wolves disquised as sheep

In societythe poor in america are miserable

Untrainedstarvin like the children in israel

First jewel since men spoke hebrew

Now niggaz drink brewguzzle lucefer stew

Young eonly elevengot a three-fifty-seven

And said he sold drugs by day cuz havin cream was heaven



[chorus x2: dj rogers & puff]

What young thugs do for money

What young thugs do for money



[la the darkman]

Yoniggaz keep eyein memy life is like administer society

I'm old dogmany fake thugs think of tryin me

SorryI'm the lion in this concrete safari

My niggaz been in and out of jail since atari

The street life is the only life I know

Puff treesv12my medallion glow

And I'm always gottibut cats don't know me

My peoples run the island on riker's and the coney

I keep the new freshplanned clark's like tony

I'm married to my guns in holy matrimony

With street rapsall the bullshityou keep that

Rhyme for my niggaz on the corner that keep gats

Since school catsniggaz incarcerated

All praises due to allah cuz I made it



[chorus x2]



[la the darkman]

Yoyoyoyoas an adolestantI grew up stressin

With a lust for jewelryclothes and metal weapons

Based on the streetslife about cream and whip

Cells with the chipbig guns and big clips

A dime piece to strip and more bricks to flip

Ghetto novelmy lex shines like the apollo

La songsphilosphies is a street aristotel

It's policticianscatholics and christians

Kids who don't listenon riker's pissin

Lifecan't play cee-lo with two dice

And you go through hell just to come out right

Cuz we go through hell just to come out right



[chorus x4]



[outro: dj rogers & puff]

Thugs that get that money (get that money)

Don't let money change you (don't let it change you)

(nononono) thugs that get that money (ohhh)

Moneydon't let money change you (don't let it change you)

(ohhnonodon't let money change you)

(I'm tellin youdon't let it change you)

(do you want the dollar? got to have the money)

(uhgot to have the money)

(ain't worth the problem...)