[Chorus]

Rock when I'm reading red letter to the needlehead

Words will escape thru your tape recorder

So I stay bleeding red shredding the needlehead

Nickel on top cuz I got no quarter

[Verse 1]

I got to prosper who said this junk would cost your

Family everything they got from the sink to the pot we once used

Cooking some brown beans and rice

But for now I'm PBJing up a handsome slice

I'm sorry wife; I know you're worth more than this

I guess a brother should have spoke up and warned you this

Was in store, but now we got no time to talk

You gotta drive to work while I got mics to rock

It's not fare, we entered in it unprepared

But chances are if I'd told you, you wouldn't have cared

So let's not, worry about the bills the scrills

From all the ill's shows gonna stretch and last until

We blow up, and watch a million people show up

Hearing friends ask when my dreams will be grown up

And stop running with my hip-hop crew

But till that day comes know I got a job to do, I'll just

[Chorus]

Rock when I'm reading red letter to the needlehead

Words will escape thru your tape recorder

So I stay bleeding red shredding the needlehead

Nickel on top cuz I got no quarter

[Verse 2]

Working in the basement trying to get my payment

Every day went trying to pay rent yesterday's spent

So now I'm doing my best to stay alive

Hoping I get a better push than deepspace 5

Uproking, or Im'ma have to call it a day

Hang up my mic, life's turnpike's taking my pay

It's confusing, I know that I'm called but meanwhile

Bills stacking and my mic check bounced the freestyle

Ain't accepted, a Christian emcee feeling neglected

Hectic hell keeping my cell disconnected

But that's the price of rocking for Christ

Giving up material so Im'ma suffice living my life

More abundant, I know it's hard to realize

But simplicity confuses the wise so now my eyes

See riches, cuz knowledge and wisdom is priceless

The wicked storing loot for the righteous so watch me

[Chorus]

Rock when I'm reading red letter to the needlehead

Words will escape thru your tape recorder

So I stay bleeding red shredding the needlehead

Nickel on top cuz I got no quarter

[Verse 3]

Thinking of a master plan

Cuz all I got is sweat inside my hand

So I reach into my pocket all my money is spent

So I dig deeper, but still coming up with lint

I need money

[Chorus]

Rock when I'm reading red letter to the needlehead

Words will escape thru your tape recorder

So I stay bleeding red shredding the needlehead

Nickel on top cuz I got no quarter