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

[Intro: Method Man]

Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. 

Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all

[Verse 1: Raekwon]

I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side

Stayin' alive was no jive

Had secondhands, Moms 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 sixteen

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 weed

The combination madе my eyes bleed

No question, I would flow off and try to gеt the dough off

Stickin' up white boys on ball courts

My life got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater

Times is rough and tough like leather

Figured out I went the wrong route

So I got with a sick-tight clique and went all out

Catchin' ki's from 'cross seas

Rollin' in MPVs, every week we made forty G

Yo, brothas, respect mine or here go the TEC-9, ch-pow

Move from the gate now

[Chorus: Method Man]

Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. 

Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all

Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. 

Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all

[Verse 2: Inspectah Deck]

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 'cause **** 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 touch (Touch)

The court played me short, now I face incarceration

Pacin', goin' upstate's my destination

Handcuffed in 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

[Chorus: Method Man & Inspectah Deck]

Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. 

Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all

Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. 

Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all (Do what they gotta do to get through, know what I'm sayin'?)

Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. (Because you can't just get by no more)

Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all (Word up, you gotta get over, straight up and down)

Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. 

Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all

[Outro: Method Man]

Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. 

Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all

Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. 

Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all

Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. 

Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all

Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. 

Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all, yeah