Short Money

[Verse] Short money looked so tall when we stood up near it Told us that we could see it louder, had to look to hear it Looking further from what we heard of made it more apparent Apparently hearing these was looking in mirrors Tall when we stood up next to it, stood tall if there was ever room for questioning Knowing all of your rep in it, height became a precedent Tall like extended's on the end of what they bring when they grip and get to collecting it Money had us adept to it Power shotgun in the ride with the respect and so we got to L.O.X'ing it Track 5 connecting it And know that if I'm dealing with 5 it's 4-5 in the sky, Mitchell & Ness'ing it Grey uniform, Nike checking it Childhood pictures had us pissing on hydrants, G-Depping it Nickel and diming seems effortless Til the crown heavy cuz the nickel and diming breed replicas Saw it off the arm while eyeing the divas jumping outta cars With lines of fiends plucking on their arms Bitches brushing em away while they dying to see what's jumping with the bomb And 550's was dumping outta jars I mean, who would've knew you could fit a car in a flour jar Or you can fill it wit half and get your Audi on Short money looked so long like car payments But short money turn those off like court cases Casing a dream like it was yours and we was taxing it The lane get too cluttered with dreams you start trafficking The dichotomy of starting at the back of it I'm a Jay-Z Kweli accident Hybrid of the park bench and park slope But the thought of living in park slope was all jokes "peace God", peace God, now the shit is explained It makes sense like a lick for a brick and some change [Chorus] Short money what they taught us when they put us here Said it take so long to count it that we wouldn't care Short money what they taught us when they put us here Said it take so long to count it that we wouldn't care Short money what they taught us when they put us here Said it take so long to count it that we wouldn't care Short money what they taught us when they put us here Said it take so long to count it that we wouldn't care