Time and money tell me how you spend it Everybody want it 'til they get it Fast cars jewelry and the women Want this life until we really live it Most my people come up from the trenches Never had much in they condition You can't really blame us Nah you can't really blame us nah Look inside the mind of a menace Wouldn't show love if this was tennis Hate in his soul got him limping Broken pockets grabbing ammunition Hope the money erase all the pain Upped his coins now his mood changed Late nights swerving thru the lanes In a bucket thinking of a Range Ten toes gripping every block Ten hoes working 'round the clock Ten fold rising like a stock Ten four hear it from the cops Copy that cop another pack Run it back to back to back to back to back Same shit just a different day Tryna get it each and every way Time and money tell me how you spend it Everybody want it 'til they get it Fast cars jewelry and the women Want this life until we really live it Most my people come up from the trenches Never had much in they condition You can't really blame us nah you can't really blame us nah Time and money tell me how you spend it Everybody want it 'til they get it Fast cars jewelry and the women Want this life until we really live it Most my people come up from the trenches Never had much in they condition You can't really blame us nah you can't really blame us nah Look inside the mind of a artist Thinking of a luxury apartment Bullseye tryna hit the target Life disconnected I can't call it Wake up write another verse Scratch then replace hope it work Came up out the mud from the dirt Everything I write is down to earth Running this imaginary race Remind me of my peoples down on Chase Serving rocks tryna beat a case I'm serving raps tryna be a great Late nights grinding in the booth Ain't have no money for the stu Fuck it put the mic in my room Mad villain motherfuckers doomed Treat 'em like the food on my plate Niggas threw dirt on my name Cleaned it off ain't leave a stain Cleaned it off ain't leave a stain I take ya hip hop license Just 'cause you gotta sixteen don't mean you can drive it I'm 'bout to suit and tie it Business professional This is correctional sentencing Call this shit your indictment Lock you up bars holy struck with the touch Midas And they side with a brother like Joseph Biden Yeah they side with a brother Dip and diving See 'em scrutinizing When I spit lines is sick get the flu if you try to bite it In the booth I'm the truth they can never fight it Talk in peace don't you speak you got laryngitis Time and money tell me how you spend it Everybody want it 'til they get it Fast cars jewelry and the women Want this life until we really live it Most my people come up from the trenches Never had much in they condition You can't really blame us Nah you can't really blame us nah Time and money tell me how you spend it Everybody want it 'til they get it Fast cars jewelry and the women Want this life until we really live it Most my people come up from the trenches Never had much in they condition You can't really blame us Nah you can't really blame us nah Look inside the mind of a nigga Society like to paint a picture Reckless beings with no real ambition Tryna keep my niggas at a distance Same cycles hoping that it change Rap sell packs who's the blame Systemic racists or the game Pipeline to prison or the fame Growing up I saw both sides Tell me how the truth coincide It's mathematic how we all divide Subtract us then they adding to they pie American dreams turned into night terrors In the blink of an eye Vision clouded tryna reach for the sky Instead we landed in a pile of lies Gimme space gotta levitate Need a peace of mind need to meditate Want a piece of mine I'm a set 'em straight Elevate my mind need to medicate Bodies dropping When the pistols popping Running out of options Put 'em in a coffin Been a pallbearer one too many times So I write these lines just to keep from falling Tell me who to blame We can blame the game We can blame the cops We can blame the pain Blame it on the block Blame it on our age Blame it on the rocks Blame it on our race But nothing happens when you placing the blame The hardest truth is realizing that you gotta change Nigga Time and money tell me how you spend it Everybody want it til they get it Can you really blame us, can you really blame us