Ca**per Nyovest]
Nyovest (the best)
Talib, abashwe!
Yeah
[Verse 1: Ca**per Nyovest]
I used to put the money first
Yeah, I still do but that hardly works
Cause y'all still ask for prices from the waiters and y'all hardly serve
You pay once, you pay forever
That you can't reverse
That's why I ain't paid Talib for no f**ing verse
Mutual respect over below payments
Your mind accepted marriage when money proposed slavery
I've been listening and four quarters of y'all won't make it
I'm Africa's number 1, that's a f**ing bold statement
And I'm the most relevant
You failing to admit that is your biggest impediment
We're not on the same level man
Your dream girl sent me nudes and
I'm checking them underneath the table as I'm having dinner with the president
Man, f** the money!
O tsenya tlhogo then otla ka plane
Eh sane, being broke's for makgokgorane
They love me cause they know I'm being real to my peeps
There's n***as richer than me who still wish they were me, wa**up?
[Sample]
f** the money [x26]
[Verse 2: Talib Kweli]
(What the people say?) [x6]
(Aye, aye, aye)
Money make n***as break promises
Money turned n***as into pharmacists
Money make us drop out of colleges
But the bars that I spit prove God exists
Who we be, that's who we are
Versace, Gucci, Louis Vuitton
My taste expensive as a superstar
So I take what I want like a coup d'etat
From profit-sharing to profiteering
Now they stop and stare 'cause we cop McLarens
Were we not preparing for God's appearance?
Too busy dominating and domineering
Our competition securing our position
Now our greed dangerous as a heart condition
Rap n***as lie like politicians
So I gotta tell the truth, that's a smart decision
Capitalism is a cataclysm
The white collar crime is a bad decision
And the bankers who routinely crash the system
Will quickly get their a** dragged to prison
Need money to eat, need money to live
Need money to keep, need money to give
"I'm on the pursuit of the money" is your only goal
Then you lose control, then you lose your soul
Dollars and cents, they rob our children of their innocence
So when it's sent, we come to our nation's capital to cash a check
According to Dr. King when he saw it clear in his dream
We built the pyramids, they built the pyramid scheme