[ti:c.r.e.a.m.] [ar:wu-tang clan] [00:02.400]What that nigga want God? [00:03.150]Word up,look out for the cops （Wu-Tang five finger shit） [00:06.509]（Cash Rules）Word up,two for fives runnin ova here baby [00:08.580]Word up,two for fives them niggaz got garbage down the way,word up [00:13.379]Knawhatimean? [00:13.680]（Cash Rules Everything Around Me [00:16.739]Cash Rules,word up） [00:19.419]Yea,check this ol'fly shit out [00:20.550]Word up [00:21.360]（Cash Rules Everything Around Me）Take you on a natural joint [00:23.730]（C.R.E.A.M.get the money）Here we,here we go [00:26.169]（dolla,dolla bill y'all）Check this shit,yo! [00:27.730]Verse 1:Raekwon The Chef [00:28.910]I grew up on the crime side,the New York Times side [00:31.39]Stayin'alive was no jive on second hands [00:32.709]Moms bounced on old men [00:33.910]So then we moved to Shaolin land [00:36.230]A young youth,yo rockin the gold tooth,'Lo goose [00:39.230]Only way,I begin to gee off was drug loot [00:42.540]And let's start it like this son,rollin wit this one [00:45.160]And that one,pullin out gats for fun [00:48.279]But it was just a dream for the teen who was a fiend [00:50.970]Started smokin woolies at 16 [00:52.209]And running up and gates,and doing hits for high stakes [00:56.270]Makin'my way on fire escapes [00:57.760]No question I would speed,for cracks and weed [01:00.879]The combination made my eyes bleed [01:03.700]No question I would flow off and try to get the dough all [01:07.299]Stickin'up white boys on ball courts [01:09.499]My life got no betta,same damn 'lo sweater [01:11.370]Times is rough and tough like leather [01:14.430]Figured out I went the wrong route [01:16.490]SO I GOT WIT A SICK ASS CLIQUE AND WENT ALL OUT! [01:18.980]Catchin keys from across seas [01:21.419]Rollin in MVP's,every week we made 40g's [01:25.40]Yo nigga respect time,or anger the tech-9 [01:27.909]Ch-chick-POW,move from the gate now [01:30.329]Chorus:Method Man [01:31.519]Cash Rules Everything Around Me [01:32.590]C.R.E.A.M get the money [01:33.969]Dolla,dolla bill y'all [01:42.133]Verse 2:Inspectah Deck [01:42.883]It's been 22long,hard years of still strugglin' [01:44.503]Survival got me buggin',but I'm alive on arrival [01:46.743]I peep at the shape of the streets [01:48.693]And stay awake to the ways of the world 'cause shit is deep [01:51.813]A man with a dream with plans to make C.R.E.A.M. [01:53.983]Which failed;I went to jail at the age of 15 [01:56.683]A young buck sellin drugs and such who never had much [01:59.423]Trying to get a clutch at what I could not.could not. [02:02.733]The court played me short,now I face incarceration [02:05.43]Pacin -going up state's my destination [02:07.103]Handcuffed in back of a bus,forty of us [02:10.283]Life as a shorty shouldn't be so ruff [02:12.963]But as the world turns I learned life is hell [02:15.523]Living in the world no different from a cell [02:18.83]Everyday I escape from Jakes givin chase,sellin base [02:20.823]Smokin bones in the staircase [02:22.813]Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess [02:25.883]I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed [02:28.253]But I'm still depressed,and I ask what's it worth? [02:30.873]Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth [02:34.183]Who explained working hard may help you maintain [02:36.173]To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain [02:38.303]We got stickup kids,corrupt cops,and crack rocks [02:41.293]And stray shots,all on the block that stays hot [02:44.293]Leave it up to me while I be living proof [02:47.223]To kick the truth to the young black youth [02:49.473]But shorty's running wild smokin sess drinkin beer [02:52.93]And ain't trying to hear what I'm kickin in his ear [02:55.523]Neglected,but now,but yo,it gots to be accepted [02:57.943]That what?That life is hectic