C.R.E.A.M.(Cash Rules Everything Around Me) ((Radio Mix)) - Wu Tang Clan Written by：Wu-Tang Clan Cash rules everything around me Get the money Dollar dollar bill y'all I grew up on the crime side the new York times side Staying alive was no jive Had second hands moms bounced on old man So then we moved to shaolin land A young youth yo rocking the gold tooth 'lo goose Only way I begin to g' off was drug loot And let's start it like this son rolling with this one And that one pulling out gats for fun But it was just a dream for the teen who was a fiend Started smoking woo lies at sixteen
And running up in gates and doing hits for high stakes Making my way on fire escapes No question I would speed for cracks and w**d
The combination made my eyes bleed
No question I would flow off and try to get the dough off Sticking up white boys in 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
Catching keys from across seas Rolling in mpv's every week we made forty G's Yo brothas respect mine or anger the tech nine Ch pow move from the gate now Cash rules everything around me Get the money Dollar dollar bill y'all Cash rules everything around me Get the money Dollar dollar bill y'all It's been 22 long hard years and still struggling Survival got me bugging but I'm alive on arrival I peep at the shape of the streets And stay awake to the ways of the world cause sh*t is deep A man with a dream with plans to make cream Which failed I went to jail at the age of 15 A young buck selling drugs and such who never had much Trying to get a clutch at what I could not touch The court played me short now I face incarceration Pacing going up state's my destination Handcuffed in back of a bus 40 of us Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough
But as the world turns I learned life is hell
Living in the world no different from a cell Everyday 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 working hard may help you maintain To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain We got stickup kids corrupt cops and crack rocks And stray shots all on the block that stays hot
Leave it up to me while I be living proof To kick the truth to the young black youth But shorty's running wild smoking sess drinking beer And ain't trying to hear what I'm kicking in his ear Neglected for now but yo it gots to be accepted
That what that life is jected Cash rules everything around me Get the money Dollar dollar bill y'all Cash rules everything around me Get the money Dollar dollar bill y'all Cash rules everything around me Get the money Dollar dollar bill y'all Cash rules everything around me Get the money Dollar dollar bill y'all
Cash rules everything around me Get the money Dollar dollar bill y'all Cash rules everything around me Get the money Dollar dollar bill y'all Cash rules everything around me Get the money Dollar dollar bill y'all Cash rules everything around me Get the money Dollar dollar bill y'all Y'aauhhhaaaauhhhhahhhauhhhhll yeah
Leave it up to me while I be living proof To kick the truth to the young black youth But shorty's running wild smoking sess drinking beer And ain't trying to hear what I'm kicking in his ear Neglected for now but yo it gots to be accepted
