When I need bread, I grab the toaster and stick niggas for they crumbs.
- Akinyele, “The Robbery Song,” Put It in Your Mouth EP, 1996
Every time the ball drop on New Year’s Eve,
We toast to more money, we smoke to more cheese…
We toast to more money, we smoke to more cheese…
- Prodigy, “New Yitty,” H.N.I.C. Part 2, 2008
‘That buck that bought the bottle coulda struck the lotto.’
To invest in scratch tickets is a fucked up motto.
To invest in scratch tickets is a fucked up motto.
- Reks, “Black Cream (The Negro Epidemic),” Grey Hairs, 2008
Lookin down the barrel of a gun, son of gun, son of a bitch, gettin paid, gettin rich!
- Beastie Boys, “Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun,” Paul’s Boutique, 1989
Guns and the sneakers made Jada.
The bitches and the reefer came later with the money and the haters.
The bitches and the reefer came later with the money and the haters.
- Jadakiss, “Jada’s Got a Gun,” Kiss the Game Goodbye, 2001
Think, just blink and I made…a million rhymes.
Just imagine if you blinked…a million times.
Damn, I’d be paid…I got it made.
Just imagine if you blinked…a million times.
Damn, I’d be paid…I got it made.
- Special Ed, “I Got It Made,” Youngest In Charge, 1989
I live by the beat like you live check to check.
If you don’t move yo feet then I don’t eat,
So we like neck to neck.
If you don’t move yo feet then I don’t eat,
So we like neck to neck.
- André Benjamin, “Elevators (Me & You)”, from Outkast’s ATLiens, 1996
I never boned a honey that I didn’t like
I never saw a mile that I couldn’t hike
I never had a spliff to make me choke
I never had a pocket that was broke
I never saw a mile that I couldn’t hike
I never had a spliff to make me choke
I never had a pocket that was broke
- Dres, “Flavor of the Month,” from Black Sheep’s A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing, 1994
What you base your happiness around?
Material, women, and large paper?
That means you inferior, not major.
Material, women, and large paper?
That means you inferior, not major.
- Nas, “No Idea’s Original,” The Lost Tapes, 2002
It’s not about a salary, it’s all about reality.
- KRS-One, “My Philosophy,” from Boogie Down Productions’ By All Means Necessary, 1988
Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.
- KRS-One, “I’m Still #1”, from Boogie Down Productions’ By Any Means Necessary, 1990
