Greed

Gimme that money
Give it to me
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Gimme that money
Give it to me
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Greed: artificial necessity
The world is too needy for green
You know I don't need it
You know they don't need it
But need is the way you perceive it
Y'all know the quote
Greed is the root of evil
Without it we wouldn't evolve
into the gluttonous, selfish people
Looking at life through an iddy biddy peephole
Y'all are complacent
Always are wasting
Spending while never ever taking haste in the choices you make
Nah it ain't great
Shredding through paper like cheese on a grate, so
How do we move from here?
Get a new motion, new groove in here?
On a micro scale, you can tell people struggle to pay bills
So (inhale)
Individually, I see the synergy between people and me
We're all just trying to be
Have means, financially, responsibly, live life, no plight, in peace
Gimme that money
Give it to me
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Gimme that money
Give it to me
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Greed: artificial necessity
The world is too needy for green
You know I don't need it
You know they don't need it
But need is the way you perceive it
Imma lay the foundation, sadly
Habits outweigh the intentions, madly
If you trynna save
Then find a way
To limit expenditure daily
Not monthly, cause that's a myth
Find a hundred ways to save a dollar, not a single Benjamin
Ha, yeah, let that marinate
Cook it up, let it cool
Warm it up, meditate
End scene
Now here's the bigger scheme
Lemme, switch flow to better your understanding
Take you, you friend and then me
Our change is only worth pennies
Accumulated and taken by the enemies
Bit extreme, but it gets a little messy
My opinion, Lionel's got plenty
And corporations, man, if they had any
Remorse, they'd get back on the horses
Share a plate, get rid of five courses
Wanna make change? Miss quarterly reports
Fuck stocks & projections
Build something genuine to outlive your brethren
Altruism, you know it?
More than a tax break, so show it
Posers, you know it
The issue, here, is the tippiddy top
You'll hear more after the drop
Gimme that money
Give it to me
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Gimme that money
Give it to me
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Greed: artificial necessity
The world is too needy for green
You know I don't need it
You know they don't need it
But need is the way you perceive it
I delivered you the micro, leaked into the macro
(Welcome to Econ, professor's an asshole)
Conflict of 2021, how fun
Wallstreet suits putting a gun to the heads of the people, who made a bet
Wallstreetbets on top of the rest
Gamestop & tickers grew quicker
Started as a meme, became a scheme
People found meaning, buying inaugurally
Sending all of their shares to the moon & air
In turn, the one% lost
Rich cry babies sipping on Voss
Called in a favor, 'cause of their losses
Covered their asses: Pampers, dawg
So, dot dot dot
We unhooded the Robin
They robbin the mobs
Stated condolences
Bullshit response
Big money, big power
We should all be appalled
(Damn wait that's crazy. You can manipulate the market daily?)
Well, not you, not me
But people above with a fake ass degree
On the wall
Billions of dollars on call
They're ones who control it all
Yeah, I gotta degree but you know that I use it to engineer safety (c'mon)
Listen I know this song started as a banger
Skip, if you wanna endanger
Your awareness and intelligence
I'm no expert, but I study
What I'm up against
Not about opinions
It's about ensuring you're not a minion to the system, listen
If you tell me to dumb it down
Imma grab Lupe's katana to cut ya down
(So what we gonna do?)
For the bottom to change, it's gotta trickle down
Not like Reagan shit, but like pay & shit
With the top, staying exuberant
The bottom, is gunna need lubricant
Fiscal support & structure to grease the gears of years of inequality, disparity, driven by greed
So I ask again
How do we move from here?
Get a new motion, new groove in here?
Gunna have to come from the top don't stop
keep going and going and going 'til the need drops
How do we move from here?
Get a new motion, new groove in here?
Gonna have to come from the Feds, shit
Don't stop, going and going, 'til the need
Gimme that money
Give it to me
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Gimme that money
Give it to me
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Greed: artificial necessity
The world is too needy for green
You know I don't need it
You know they don't need it
But need is the way you perceive it
Gimme that money
Give it to me
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Gimme that money
Give it to me
Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Need: Look it up and come back to me
Cause greed is an oiled machine
You know that I mean it, I speak it the realest
Now study and fuckin defeat it