[Chorus]
Riding around the city, uh
I need a pound to lift me up
Dragging me down, you get me, uh
Dragging me down you-- (aye)
Riding around the city, uh
I need a pound to lift me up
Dragging me down, you get me, uh
Dragging me down you--(aye, look, uh)
[Refrain]
If you ain't talking money why you talking?
Why you talking?
Why you talking?
Yeah, If you ain't talking money why you talking?
Why you talking?
Why you, why you?
[Verse 1]
I pray that this god oughta kill all my tendencies
I turned my life to a fantasy
Lately they giving me airtime, they playing my shit out in Tennessee
They bringing me up out in Canada
I heard my song on the Radio One
This is the same Los from the slums, I learned to travel the globe with the drums
My momma told me that everything coming to me, as long as I always believe
And we ain't have nothing but only had faith, yeah
[?] living ain't safe, yeah
She dropping tears when I play her my new tape, yeah
I give the city a new face (I give the city a new face), uh
Reason to look to the sky, I paint a picture that dreams that's realer than all they facades
Come from a family of addicts, don't know if my daddy alive, but still they can't push me aside
Bitch I'm a living legend (sheesh!), call me an angel, triple seven
Dodging the danger, backing the bullets away, I'm hitting a big percentage
Scribbling sentence saved me from sentences, how I know what a blessing is
But I never learned about losses, uh, only learned what the lessons is
That's why I'm on top, uh, I put it all on my shoulders, ain't nobody gon' hold us back, ain't nobody gon' hold us
[Chorus]
Riding around the city, uh
I need a pound to lift me up
Dragging me down, you get me, uh
Dragging me down you-- Aye, uh
Riding around the city, uh
I need a pound to lift me up
Dragging me down, you get me, uh
Dragging me down you-- Aye, look, uh
[Refrain]
If you ain't talking money why you talking?
Why you talking?
Why you talking?
Yeah, If you ain't talking money why you talking?
Why you talking?
Why you, why you? (Aye)
[Verse 2]
Talking crazy like you can't get god for nothing (nothing!)
If I sign a deal I make some space inside the budget
18 Transit riding on the bus and now we're bussing
All that shit that you talking couldn't move me I ain't budging
Flying out the country from the west but Los still love it
I be out in Pari, drink tea but I'm still thugging
If you see me talk to me just like I was your cousin
Everyone my family even when I flex in public
Tattoo on my stomach brought Bottega boots to lunch and
"What's your favorite hobby?" I don't know, counting hundreds
Used to live with termites and the roaches had me bugging
Now we going platinum in my city when I run it yeah
[Chorus]
Riding around the city, uh
I need a pound to lift me up
Dragging me down, you get me, uh
Dragging me down you-- (aye)
Riding around the city, uh
I need a pound to lift me up
Dragging me down, you get me, uh
Dragging me down you-- Aye, look, uh
[Refrain]
If you ain't talking money why you talking?
Why you talking?
Why you talking?
Yeah, If you ain't talking money why you talking?
Why you talking?
Why you talking?
Why you, why you?
[Outro]
Now if you ain't talking money, take your broke ass home
If you ain't talking money, take your broke ass home
If you ain't talking money, get your broke ass on
If you ain't talking... money