Nappy Roots - The People lyrics
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Money means nothing
My people mean everything
Promise when I got little more money that I will never change
Clutch is still the same
I kept my feet on Earth
And I kept my promise
I kept my people first
My friends and my family, y'all helped make a man of me
When I was down and out
Y'all lent a helping hand to me
So I'm returning the favor
And I'm passing it forward
Adversity - don't run away from it, run towards it
Face it, embrace it
I promise you can make it
Time spent with your family, you should keep that sacred
It's worth more than... any amount of money
So I would never let the money, snatch that from me!
When people get money and they start acting funny
It's the money make the world they see
But see if I get some, then we all getting something
Cuz money ain't the world to me
I do it for the people the people the people
Cuz money ain't the world to me
The people the people the people
Cuz money ain't the world to me
Daddy was a garbage man
Momma worked real hard
Me, I'm a common man
And depend on the Lord
Not the smartest I'll admit it
Didn't have a million dollars
Only thing He said to me, "What don't kill you makes you stronger."
Humble beginnings
Make some sweeter endings
Look at Oprah Winfrey, Tupac and John Lennon
They all set goals
What's your next move?
Now we have a good President, what you gon' do?
Be a better man
Lend a friend a hand
Grow spiritually
Help out your community
It's the love in momma's cooking
That make it taste good
It's the people not the money...
That makes the neighborhoooooood!!
When people get money and they start acting funny
It's the money make the world they see
But see if I get some, then we all getting something
Cuz money ain't the world to me
I do it for the people the people the people
Cuz money ain't the world to me
The people the people the people
Cuz money ain't the world to me
You see I do it for the love
Sometimes I do it just because
For some reasons I can't explain
I didn't do it for the bucks
See Nappy Roots is a movement in that
It hovers a class above
The average and the obvious
Suffer conscience like a lot of us
We struggle from time to time
And did the opposite of an optimist
But hard word pays off
I'm living proof and promising this
Educate yourself so when you finally see some dollars and cents
It won't go 'POOF!' as soon as you make it
But it'll make it to your grandchildren's kids
'Cause THEY are the future
WE are the ones that damaging it
Abusing the opportunities with pollutions and contaminates and it
Don't make any damn sense
'Cause this movie doesn't have a sequel
If you don't do it for you and your kids, then...
Do it for the rest of the people
When people get money and they start acting funny
It's the money make the world they see
But see if I get some, then we all getting something
Cuz money ain't the world to me
I do it for the people the people the people
Cuz money ain't the world to me
The people the people the people
Cuz money ain't the world to me
Thanks to georgesheardexpress9 for correcting these lyrics
