Released on June 20, 2000

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[Intro: Raekwon]

Straight up, nigga, I'm a money nigga, man

You know what time it is wit' me, yo

That's right

Take the track, cut the heads off, split it down the middle, man

Take the bones out, man, for real

Yeah, all apple pie, yeah

Straight up – Flipmode, Wu-Tang


[Verse 1: Ghostface Killah]

It was the best heist since ice, precise rituals

Skated out of Jacob's with the Fruit Loop jewels

Holdin' a navy blue Uzi, Krush Groovin', waves off the atlas

Coolin', that's how we make movies

Basketball gun brawlers, bounce

Black down Brillo-head banks, Malibu colorful shanks

That's the way we live, Staten Island kid

O-Doggin' it, the thug vaccine with no pork in it

Vivid imagination paper chasin', dufflebag swollen, we holding

Drink chocolate milk before we roll in

It's like that, y'all, we gangsters

Sticking all you Bay Ridge Benzes, I'm out to get erect

Terrific shit be the Diamond District, Tiffany's

Pretty Valentine brick is on the second floor balcony

Gems is magnificent, diamonds is crying

"Busta Rhymes take me, nevermind them!"


[Verse 2: Raekwon]

Ayo, caught 'em at the Ice Pavilion, dressy, salad bar, style messy

Four white niggas, covered in vest pieces

Think like a mob flick, "guess who?" like Patsy in the mask piece

Bus' got aggravated, slapped the glass pieces

One nigga beaming, faggot ass

"Lay on the floor, you fuck!"

Tied his broken arm to his Hush Puppies

Wrapped around drama, everything realer than fuck

Tajuana left, my nigga niece live calmer

Three young Italians, suited down, personal style

I'm in velour, white, designing on the 'dallions

Felt like some crackers was in back of me

Spit on the clerk, pass the Harry Winston set, Ghost backing me

Bust a shot, motored, four mill' in paper work, lord

We get together once more before we blow this

Murdered nobody, left 'em all baseballed down, brother

Three wicked ass 6s, Gucci colors


[Chorus: Busta Rhymes]

Money! Drop dead on the floor

Nigga, pass the keys to the door

Pass me all the cash in the drawer

Or I promise, you'll be paying the price

Feeling like a nigga died twice, execute the world's greatest diamond heist!

Y'all niggas know we out to get this money

C'mon, money, c'mon, money, c'mon

Raekwon, Ghostface, Roc Marc', c'mon!

C'mon, money, c'mon, money

C'mon, money, c'mon, money, c'mon money

Let's get this money, nigga!


[Verse 3: Roc Marciano]

Yeah, we near the mine out west, somewhere in Africa

The Feds is after us, vest on my back, whipping the Acuras

Feel like a MAC bustin', a brother pressed in on percussion

I'll bust in your gate, nigga, it's nothing

A hail storm, ice raining, mind containing info

Nigga, what you in for – complaining?

Six bars deep in this language, did I tell you how my day's spent?

Speaking through the face of Ronald Reagan

Iceberg History, calligraphy

Kaleidoscope colors, hollow-head shells and flarin' gunmen

Hate to see me comin', like gray skies on Day of Judgment

Makes you wonder where the love went

Hit a nigga, feed him to some buzzards, put up numbers

Plus I'm one to push his mug in, we duck in the safe, check what I'm huggin'

Rocks the size of some shit out in the Congo

My arms full, let's get the fuck out, "Busta, we got you"


[Verse 4: Busta Rhymes]

Ayo, we do great study on fossils and stones like archeologists

Gemologists, collect the most precious ices anonymous

Canary stones, yellow like a pumpkin

Dunkin' Donut precious size stones, make me wanna cut the safe open

Rae pass the blowtorch, Ghost brought the dynamite stick

Marciano brought a chisel with an ice pick

Princess cuts, invisible settings

Planning the world's greatest diamond heist, playing a tune by Otis Redding

Icicle cones hang from the ceiling, just like stalagmites

Time to throw on a skully and tie the rag tight

Throw it like an orphan in the basket

Grabbed the necklace from off the satin pillow while the glass casket

Ice lay across the crushed burgandy velvet up in the diamond slide-tray

Gun in your face, slide it right away

Roundtable with Habib, Miroshnykov, and the rest of them Jewish niggas

Got them niggas drunk and talkin' foolish

See, you know the way we straight manipulated the shit

We swindle them niggas for all their precious things before we skated and shit

Yeah, y'all niggas know we skated early

Disguised ourselves as Hasidic Jews and even left my sideburns curly

Bounce to Mexico and spend some pesos

And buried the diamonds on an island your never heard, like Turks and Caicos

Everytime we hit, we in and out quick

Don't be surprised if we behind supplyin' niggas all the platinum and shit


[Outro: Busta Rhymes]

Money, money, money, money, money

Money, money, money, money, money

Money, money, money, money, money

Money, money

Yeah, the world's greatest jewel heist

Thoroughly and successfully executed

By none other than Ghostface Killah, Raekwon the Chef, 

Roc Marciano, and Busta Rhymes

A job well done, fellas – very good piece of work