Yo! {"I need the money") McNasty Presents ("For awesome amounts of dough") Yeah-yeah-yeah... ("I need the money") ("Awesome amounts of dough") ("I need the money") Turn it up ("I need - I need the money") [Common:] ("What money do to a n... ") Where you at? Ruff Draft muh'f**er ("I need the money") ("What money do to a n... ") ("Once again, I need the money") [J Dilla:] Yo, I'm thinkin of a master plan I'm blingin with the cash in hand I got a muh'f**in right to shine n***a I paid my dues, I earned this cake I abuse I burn the paper the way I choose I gotta, handle my B.I., and I do And hold the T-I-N-Y tool With a mind of it's own, no tellin what it might do Mess with my loot and it might pop It might lock, it might not, it might SHOOT~! And it's not the chance to take, just like it's not the answer Who out for the paper? Hands UP Lay back and pay that dancer Holla if you ever been placed in handcuffs Survival the name of the game, you wanna play? You wanna race don't wait for the bang! Let's go [Chorus:] Gotta go and get the money - worldwide, let's get it Gotta go and get the money - can't stop hustlin baby Gotta go and get the money - ("the money") it's for you Gotta go and get the dough - okay! Mo-ney [J Dilla:] (Gotta go and) get these nuts Yes it reads cheese or bust Dilla with the gangsta sh** Now let me say it again, and say it with feeling Dilla with the gangsta sh**~! Here to spit the flame Here to get the bank and split Here to twist the dank and hit it Here to twist the game, here to flip this change and spend it Down here in the valley of d**h we walk that Talk crap and wind up wet in the alley Survival, the name of the game And everywhere I go they play it the same So stay mindin your own and grind and roll Keep shinin, keep headlinin shows And get that dough let's eat my n***a Let's not be broke next week my n***a~! [Chorus:] Cause you know how we do when we get the money - so keep stackin your chips Gotta go and get the money - Dill' keep mackin your b**h Gotta go and get the money - don't stop, just do it Gotta go and get the dough - we gon' rock on and, yeah Gotta go and... on and, on, yeah Rock on and, we don't quit Rock on and on and on and Rock on and, yeah! Rock on and... on and... on... rock on [echoes and fades]