Mobb Deep - The Money (Version 2) lyrics

(Get bent, keep wilding) stop smilin'
And still don't nothin' move but the money
(Leavin' permanent scars
Like getting splashed on the island)
Stop smilin'
But still don't nothin' move but the money
(Gimme yours, or get your manhood taken)
Stop smilin'
And still don't nothin' move but the money
(Put you on your back, send you on your way
Yo good lookin') (Yo what you wanna do with
That black deuce deuce)

Hit you up, take that cash
You ain't slug proof dude
Takin' yours to survive
It's only matter of time
I'm snatchin, livin' grimy, runnin'
Never look back
The root of evil got me actin' like that
Life ain't a game
The streets is mortal combat
I wasn't blessed with the silver spoon
Since my born, I was doomed
Confined to one room now you's a customer
Cop it from natural born hustlas
(that's what he thought kid)
Stupid son, you get extorted

Stop smilin
But still don't nothin' move but the money
(New York, New York, get bent, keep wildin')
Stop smilin'
And still don't nothin' move but the money
(Leavin' permanent scars
Like getting splashed on the island)
Stop smilin'
But still don't nothin' move but the money
(Gimme yours, or get your manhood taken)
Stop smilin'
And still don't nothin' move but the money
(Put you on your back, send you on your way
Yo good lookin')

Open your eyes, get wise, and look alive
Pay attention i'm manifestin'
My slugs be leavin' niggas guessing
You tried to graduate
But didn't know enough lessons
Time is of the essence
And yours is runnin' out
Fast, you won't last
Livin' out your life like that
You shoulda got down with my crew
Slingin' cracks international
But instead, you wanna merge with the rivals
And moves like that could end up homicidal
You suicidal, and I'm (alive on arrival)
Play the drug game with precision
And never with division
I'm tryna see addition
Food to fill my kitchen
Some faggot niggas snitchin' givin' info
We'll do a drive by, in a stolen black pinto
With tinted windows
Bullets will flurry through your system
Your man ran, lucky for him
Because we missed him
We'll catch him on the rebound, but see now
I'm tryna make this money and
You tryna stop me, what's it gonna be now?
You stand up to my crew and get laid down
On the ground with the big four pound
You hear the sound on the other side of town
Where caps get peeled
Break you off, love, love
Give you somethin' to feel

Stop smilin
But still don't nothin' move but the money
(New York, New York, get bent, keep wildin')
Stop smilin'
And still don't nothin' move but the money
(Leavin' permanent scars
Like getting splashed on the island)

You don't have to tell me twice
I know when to chill when I have to
But if I have to, I'll still clap you
I'll crack through your fortress
You couldn't hold it down, so you lost it
No crew could withstand the forces
Never second guess me, just bless me
Stop smilin', bodies stackin'
Dead presidents pilin'
We wildin', lifted, terror three sixes
They got a petition, for my conviction
Rise to the occasion
When it's time for blazin'
On the 41st side
Niggas is cravin' for beef, we can handle it
It ain't nothin' cause we use to it
It's all good
The hood we ran through it since young
It used to be candy, but now it's guns
Stickin' niggas son, my job ain't done

Stop smilin
But still don't nothin' move but the money
Stop smilin'
And still don't nothin' move but the money
Stop smilin'
But still don't nothin' move but the money
Stop smilin'
And still don't nothin' move but the money