Don't Let The Money Make You

(album: 40 Dayz & 40 Nightz - 1998)

[Interviewer:]
I want to ask you, what is more important to you guys?
All the money that you guys are talking about?
Or the artform? Or, what is more important? The lyrics?
Or the leather sized stuff?

[Xzibit:]
I think, what we trying to do is device a way that the artform and the money is like on a equal level
You know what I mean, that, that like he said, is a fine line where gotta pleas the crowd or pleas the artists that are listening to you
And pleas the real hip-hop underground people that, that, that is looking for that you know, that real shit
It's only a certain way that that you can go up and doing it

Xzibit keep it on deck
Live, vinyl, CD or cassette
Whatever you select
I keep you bouncing like a bad cheque
See I should have a trigger tattooed on my neck
To represent the heat that I repeat
Now you can take the highs out of the beat
But never take the rucked out of the rhyme
Or tribalize, look into the eyes of the emotional
Your whole style is promotional
A dead giveaway to me is just another business day
Xzibit here to stay
My life, a tribute to the A.K
You wanna play
A situation only one man can walk away from
The same way he came
When I spit flame, it spits flames like your middlename
So why do I say fuck the fame
Because it come and go
The industry's a pet without refused to be that gigolo
I put the dope in, got fo's and tatoos
Niggas make ya money
But let the money make you

[King T:]
We make, make money, money
Take's money to survive
The meaning of life with statted chips is stay alive
Cause it's all about the C-notes
Gonna be fucking when you're rolling this too
Don't let the money make you

We make, make money, money
Take's money to survive
The meaning of life with statted chips is stay alive
Cause it's all about the C-notes
Gonna be fucking when you're rolling this too
Don't let the money make you

[Soopafly:]
It's Soopafly
Coming with that gangsta shit
That shit that only gangstas be getting gangsta with
The pimps, hustlers and the players know the rank I get
Never have to get no money from the bank, I get shit
I Stomp down your whole compound
Taking all the shots
Device from the few I'm rise
Let the others drop
I elevate
Who drop when a dime never got me straight
I'm still going for broke
I push you to the stroke
And one man loc and say high
Smoking to keep an open, mind
Focus on military time provoking
The G in me, nigga
[?] when he tried to step the Soopafly
AZ you are shit
Now getting down with the Pound
Now who can shake it till it break ground
Many motherfuckers are greedy
There's only one thing needed like E.D.I, Amin / I mean business
When it comes to the cash, I'm moving quick

[Xzibit:]
Any other nigga eat a dick

[Soopafly:]
Fuck type shit
Make ya step back
Soopafly, hit like crack
Life is a jet
Maintaining the top figures deliver
The raw, rugged likwidation that be running the river
Now, whether if a nigga step up
Be prepared to kick your rap up
Try to die in line for you cheque, huh nigga

[King T:]
We make, make money, money
Take's money to survive
The meaning of life with statted chips is stay alive
Cause it's all about the C-notes
Gonna be fucking when you're rolling this too
Don't let the money make you

We make, make money, money
Take's money to survive
The meaning of life with statted chips is stay alive
Cause it's all about the C-notes
Gonna be fucking when you're rolling this too
Don't let the money make you

[Xzibit:]
So when I die
Bury me upside-down
So the whole world can kiss my ass
Live fast
Sipping from my bottomless glass of Hennessy, straight
So I catch you [?]
Xzibit coming down like a saint
So prepare for the judgement day
Be careful what the fuck you say
Rhyme these parts
Amadeus and Mozart
The love for the arts and crash
Paragraphs to bust niggas in half
That's what I fuck with
[?] time to get my duck sit
Miss me if you try to make a buck with
I mean a quick buck, only got bad luck
Black cash every black trash
Never relax, never get attached to anything
That's not gonna hand so life
I come back like Christ
Pacific natural ice
With Sharif making sure R&B, was well done
Might live by the gun
But keep living through my living son

[King T:]
We make, make money, money
Take's money to survive
The meaning of life with statted chips is stay alive
Cause it's all about the C-notes
Gonna be fucking when you're rolling this too
Don't let the money make you

We make, make money, money
Take's money to survive
The meaning of life with statted chips is stay alive
Cause it's all about the C-notes
Gonna be fucking when you're rolling this too
Don't let the money make you

We make, make money, money
Take's money to survive
The meaning of life with statted chips is stay alive
Cause it's all about the C-notes
Gonna be fucking when you're rolling this too
Don't let the money make you

We make, make money, money
Take's money to survive
The meaning of life with statted chips is stay alive
Cause it's all about the C-notes
Gonna be fucking when you're rolling this too
Don't let the money make you

We make, make, money, money, make, money, money, money
We make, make, money, money, make, money, money, money
We make, make, money, money, make, money, money, money
We make, make, money, money, make, money, money, money

We take money, take money, take money, money, money
We take money, take money, take money, money, money
We take money, take money, take money, money, money
We take money, take money, take money, money, money

[Soopafly:]
Don't let this money make you