C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) (Radio Edit)

C.R.E.A.M.(Cash Rules Everything Around Me) (Radio Edit) - Wu Tang Clan
Cash rules everything around me Cream get
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
I grew up on the crime side the New York Times side
Stayin' alive was no jive
Had secondhands Mom's bounced on old man
So then we moved to Shaolin land
A young youth yo rockin' the gold tooth 'Lo goose
Only way I begin the G off was drug loot
And let's start it like this son
Rollin' with this one and that one pullin' out gats for fun
But it was just a dream for the teen
Who was a fiend started smokin' woolies at 16
And runnin' up in gates and doin' hits for high stakes
Makin' my way on fire escapes
No question I would speed for cracks and w**d
The combination made my eyes bleed
No question I would flow off
And try to get the dough all
Stickin' up white boys in ball courts
My life got no better same d**n 'Lo sweater
Times is rough and tough like leather
Figured out I went the wrong route
So I got with a sick-ass clique and went all out
Catchin' keys from 'cross seas
Rollin' in MPV's every week we made forty G's
Yo n***a respect mine or here go the TEC-9
Ch-chick-pow Move from the gate now
Cash rules everything around me
Cream get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Cash rules everything around me
Cream get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
It's been twenty-two long hard
Years I'm still strugglin'
Survival got me buggin' but I'm alive on arrival
I peep at the shape of the streets
And stay awake to the ways
Of the world deep
A man with a dream with plans to make cream
Which failed I went to jail at the age of fifteen
A young buck sellin' drugs and such who never had much
Tryin' to get a clutch at what I could not
The court played me short now I face incarceration
Pacin' goin' upstate's my destination
Handcuffed in the back of a bus forty of us
Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough
But as the world turned I learned life is hell
Livin' in the world no different from a cell
Every day I escape from Jakes givin' chase
Sellin' base smokin' bones in the staircase
Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess
I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed
But I'm still depressed and I ask what's it worth
Ready to give up so I seek the old Earth
Who explained workin' hard may help you maintain
To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain
We got stick-up kids corrupt cops and crack rocks
And stray shots all on the block that stays hot
Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof
To kick the truth to the young black youth
But shorty's runnin' wild smokin' sess drinkin' beer
And ain't tryna hear what I'm kickin' in his ear
Neglected for now but yo it gots to be accepted
That what that life is hectic
Cash rules everything around me
Cream get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Cash rules everything around me
Cream get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Cash rules everything around me
Cream get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Cash rules everything around me
Cream get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Cash rules everything around me
Cream get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Cash rules everything around me
Cream get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Cash rules everything around me
Cream get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Cash rules everything around me
Cream get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all-all-all yeah