[Hook] Money, money, money.. we rich gotdamn it Cash is a drug and n***as got to have it After we count it up lets hit Somerset, yeah I'm splurgin' In Detroit… Money more important than a person [Verse 1] Everybody wanna be a gangster, who wants to wind up dead Who wants to spend the next thirty years locked in the Feds? You want to be Maserati Rick?... Big shoes to fill It ain't safe to be a boss, you'll more than likely get k**ed Gangster movies never end happily ever after Michael Corleone's life was a f**ing disaster Tony Montana met a tragic end Henry Hill got caught and he told on his friends In Casino, Nicky thought he could get away with dumb sh** Til' the Remo let him know who was really running sh** They caught him off guard with some set-up sh** Beat him to d**h and buried him alive with his brother Dominick, damn [Hook] [x2] [Verse 2] We ain't got to talk movies, we can talk real life Cause the sh** on the big screen is based on real life Art imitates life and life imitates art Wesley Snipes and Allen Payne was just playing part Nino and G-Money was based on B.J. and Larry The Chambers brother's reign on Detroit, it was so scary What became known as the "Carter" Was really called the Broadmoor Between the Chambers and the "Best Friends" I wonder who k**ed more It was the New Jack era and they was New Jack Gangsters You want to run with the big boys, but you lack paper Throw away you future just to sell dope and rob It's best to stay in school and get high-paying job ..and that's the real! [Hook] [x2] [Verse 3] Donnie King, Jeff Dye, "Sherm", and Cedrick Tooks The "Black k**ers" was extortionist and stick-up crooks Modeled after Chi-Town's "Blackstone Rangers" BK's would shoot it out with the "Earl Flynn Gangsters" Not a pee-wee crew, they spawn big dope dealers That n***a Johnny Curry started off with "Black k**er" The most feared man in Detroit Terrence "Boogaloo" Brown Dead, in a stolen truck, that's how he was found In a plastic bag wrapped bloody bed sheets Unidentified in the morgue, for a whole week Now, this ain't funny so don't you dare laugh Just a bunch of stories about the wrong path