Money forget the money

The root of all evil deceiving cause even

My closest people tryin' to

Get me for my (money)

Cause envy breeds jealousy

Jealousy breeds hate

They on the taste for the (money)

Now where do I begin

They send you out to reel you back in

And its all for the (money)

Cause envy breeds jealousy

Jealousy breeds hate

They on the taste for the (money)

My biggest gift and my curse

More money

More problems tell me what's worse

Getting audited by the government

Giving up millions to the IRS

Or having to take a paternity test

From a b**ch I never met

I'm getting sued by my own family member

All cause my dog bit her

And she was the one

Who walked up and put her hand out

And now she got her handout

It's driving me crazy

Almost as if this sh*t was planned out

What else can anybody do to me

It ain't new to me

When every time I turn around

Another money hungry motherf**ker suing me

Truthfully I've had it up to here

And it don't help that Forbes reports

What I'm makin every year

They listen closely

And I was really demonized

That I was told to go to school

Graduate and get a job

But I'm a Hip Hop cash king

Rapper from the South

And everybody wants the easy way out

And soul of

The root of all evil deceiving cause even

My closest people tryin' to

Get me for my (money)

Cause envy breeds jealousy

Jealousy breeds hate

They on the taste for the (money)

Now where do I begin

They send you out to reel you back in

And its all for the (money)

Cause envy breeds jealousy

Jealousy breeds hate

They on the taste for the

Yeah rappers foreclosin' on their houses

Can't keep up the payments

They owe a couple hundred thousand

Say they making millions and bills steady pillin'

Diamonds on their neck

They kids' stomach out here growlin

Get your priorities in order ni**a

You talk about it

But you really can't afford it ni**a

That car you bought depreciated once you drove off

No wonder your baby momma wanna

Knock your nose off (BLAHHH)

Half the industry going bankrupt

You see em' smiling in the club

With their drinks up

Don't let that television fool ya

Off camera they sweating and stressin

My young students let me school ya

The diamonds ain't worth half

What you bought them for (no)

Soon all that Gucci don't fit

Now you out of dough

One day your pocket's

Alright now they all wrong

F**k you gonn' do

When it's all gone

Talkin bout the

The root of all evil deceiving cause even

My closest people tryin' to

Get me for my (money)

Cause envy breeds jealousy

Jealousy breeds hate

They on the taste for the (money)

Now where do I begin

They send you out to reel you back in

And its all for the (money)

Cause envy breeds jealousy

Jealousy breeds hate

They on the taste for the

Lemme talk to these hoes woadie

Uhh uh

Imagine being worth a 100 mill

Your potentials of having a billion is only real

Images more b**ches

And they named in your will

A new Mercedes a baby

Your aim was to chill

You choose a p**sy or pop a bottle

Grow half a mill

All you wanted was some entertainment

All she wanted was some litigation

Exploiting a simple penetration

Telling the courtroom

That I'm being evasive

She wanted to walk into the SunTrust

She made me sign over my lil son's trust

Take away the joy my lil daughter brings

B**ch even wanted to take my daughter's rings

Misfortunes of a rich ni**a

You watch BET while she look at the big picture

The root of all evil deceiving cause even

My closest people tryin' to

Get me for my (money)

Cause envy breeds jealousy

Jealousy breeds hate

They on the taste for the (money)

Now where do I begin

They send you out to reel you back in

And its all for the (money)

Cause envy breeds jealousy

Jealousy breeds hate

They on the taste for the

The best teast of life they've enred

Now born

Money - Ludacris