Lyrics:
I spent fifteen hundred dollars on your damn dog's collar
Put new spinners on your Escalade
I swear I almost started cryin'
When you brought up buyin' diamonds
Lord I'm spending more than I'm getting paid
You got more purses than Versace
Got more rings that Liberace
Fill your closest full of fancy shoes
All my credit cards are cookin'
Girl you don't know what your puttin' me through
It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you
You got me walkin' past the fellas
Holdin' drinks with pink umbrellas
On some island that I can't even spell
Then we slide over to Gucci
Right before we go for sushi
That's a version of my personal hell
You just spent all day long trying on Louis Vitton
There's a thousand things that I'd rather do
Lord my mom would beat me senseless
If she saw what I was spending on you
It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you
Your gonna break my bank before too long
I'm taking out a loan
But when you turn your kind of lovin' on
Honey I just can't say no, no no no no no no
Your gonna break my bank before too long
I'm running out of dough
But when you turn your kind of magic on
Honey I just can't say no, no no no
Maybe I'll play the stock market
Put some money in my pocket
Ain't no telling what your gonna need next
I need to steal a Sherman tank
Just to break into a bank
I pray to God this song will be a success
All my buddies think it's funny
'Cause I'm spending all my money
On some honey like there's something to prove
'Cause for a little of your lovin'
There ain't nothing much that I wouldn't do
It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you
No no no no
It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you
Bust my back on the Levy broke my strings on the BBC
Found my chops on Eel Pie Island paid my dues at the Marquee
Slagged off by the N.M.E. lost my stash and my virginity
In this Cockamamie Business
Got my face on Ed Sullivan broke my heart on the Soul Train
Introduced to Bad Company lost cells down at Brain Drain
And before I could mend lost the missus, missed the girlfriend
In this Cockamamie Business
Now we like to air condition though the air has no ozone ring
Still they're chopping down the forest for McDonalds and the Burger King
Eating cows with such persistence doesn't offer much resistance
To this Cockamamie Business
There are too many things stressing out the nervous system
Girls you used to know fellas that may have kissed'em
Some got rabies some got fleas some got incurable diseases
From this Cockamamie Business
Everybody's after as many points as they can get
As long as it's not them that has to pay
No one really minds the Debt
5-Star actors, tax inspectors, film producers and directors
With their Cockamamie Business
Well you do what you can can't do much more than that
(No you can't do what he just said)
Some days you're pretty sharp on other days you feel half dead
(While you make your daily bread)
Didn't want to be a star wanted just to play guitar
In this Cockamamie Business
Girl, I've been there for you
And you know that it's true
(You know it's true, you know it's true)
Girl, I've been there for you
(I've been there, I've been there for you)
Girl, you know that it's true
(Aw yeah, out here getting it baby)
Never ever let the money stop
Dirty police trying to fuck it up
If money come, he wanna pull you over
Just to say something under there
Baby momma' back drinking liquor
Now she trying to fuck my life up
I'm out here to get this money baby
37, throwin' dice up
Long nights of the wake up
New check, fuck my life up
Anytime I'm in a new city
I prefer to do light drugs
Police try to hit the tour bus
Try and fuck a nigga life up
You can fuck a nigga life up
By trying to fuck a nigga wife once
Told you baby this business
Please stop tryna ruin it all
Money fucked a nigga life up
New rims, new tires
Just get out here and show it off
Next, I'm a take the doors off
Whip browner than a band-aid
Take the sore off
Money coming so fast
Girl, I've been there for you
(Money coming, money coming so fast)
And you know that it's true
(You know it's true, you know it's true)
Girl, I've been there for you
(I've been there, I've been there for you)
And you know that it's true
You know I'm out here getting it baby
Stop trying to fuck my life up
Ball hard, and I'm still balling
Stop trying to fuck my life up
Money coming stu-stupid fast
Stop trying to fuck my life up
Getting money and I count it all
Stop trying to fuck my life up
Oh fuck my life up (it's true)
Eight stacks sitting in the club
Swipe my credit card, fuck my life up
These drugs gave me my light up
Told her "Baby please, don't bite it"
I ain't had sex in a whole week
Just so you can get to know me
Gushy, gush, so soaky
I put it in, go so deep
Motherfuck how far you
Come over here and get the write up
Homeowners' association, they always tryna get right up
You got a better advantage
Whatever you want, whenever you plan it
Pussy be fucking my life up, and yet at the same time its giving me stamina
My role model fucked my life up
Two bitches in the same room, no light on
So easy getting 100 thousand when the night up
Got cake cookin' up cake bake
My life fucked for a ladies bit
83 to 88, money comes so fast
Girl, I've been there for you
Money coming, money coming so fast
And you know that it's true
Girl it's true
Girl, I've been there for you
And you know that it's true
Know I'm out here getting it baby
Why you tryna to fuck my life up
Ball hard, and I'm still balling
Stop trying to fuck my life up
Money coming stu-stupid fast
Stop trying to fuck my life up
Getting money, then I count it all
Stop trying to fuck my life up, life up
Oh fuck my life up
I think I must have lost my way a long long time ago
Somewhere in the distance between love and business, I don't know
Didn't have that far to go to find my pleasure though
Lovers are like islands in an archipelago
Set in a sea of time
Love is a place you find
Where when two people rhyme, they begin to grow
Learning the other ninety-nine words for snow
This is a song for Barcelona, city of gravity and light
City that gave me back my fire and restored my appetite
I hear the sounds of youth up all night in the plaza
Under the sleepless eyes of the grandmothers on the Terrassa
In the streets of Gràcia and on the Ramblas
I see the searching eyes and youthful bodies pass
And my own vanished youth
Becomes my central truth
Though I no longer care
The truth is everywhere
That soon the world I love will no longer be anywhere
This is a song for Barcelona, city of Gaudíand Jujol
City that ignited my desire and temporarily my soul
They come from Ireland, they come from Africa
They come from the U.S., they come from Canada
They come from Norway, they come from China
They come from Uruguay and from Bulgaria
They come for pleasure
They come for freedom
For the chance encounter
Or the revelation
They come for business
Or for adventure
They fall in love with the information
About the world and about each other
They dream and when they wake up
They're not in Spain anymore
This is a song for Barcelona for architecture and fútbol
And for the streets that gave me refuge
In my escape from rock and roll
Una cançó per Barcelona
Per respecte I future
Per justícia I la terra, ara som sis milions I un
Via Laeitana, Gran Via, Urquinaona, Tarragona, El Parra.lel
Torrent de l'Olla, Carrer de l'Or, o Encarnació
Plaça del Sol, Plaça del Tripi, Passeig del Born
Sant Pere mes Alt, Sant Pere mes Baix
Carrer Robadors, Carrer Escudallers
Carrer del Mar, Carrer Vérdi
Pinto Fortuny, Marcat dels Encants, Portal del Angel
We got, we got, we got the vibes
All the people in Long Island, we got the vibes
Brooklyn and Queens, we got the vibes
Uptown and Now Rule, we got the vibes
People Upstate, we got the vibes
If you're in DC, you got the vibes
Maryland, Virginia, Carolina vibes
Out West, we got the vibes
In the Bahamas, we got the vibes
Over in Europe, you know what, we got the vibes
And we gotta keep it alive, it goes um
Of rap I'm a fan, I've seen a whole lot of slums
Good with the girls, I get a whole lot of 'em
From fat to skinny, Freda to Winnie
Emma to Cindy, Constance to Wendy
'Cause I be real friendly, never on the snotty side
I don't brag to brothers about the little papes I got
My vocal styles can vary, the sight is never scary
It's only legendary, my father well prepared me
My job ain't temporary, I'm here for the long shot
Better yet the long term, I don't have a perm
In a way I do, call 'em the perma-naps
I'm crazy slap-happy and I'm scrappy and I'm nappy
When I get the mic in my hand with the crowd in stand
It's as good as grand like that
I wanna say peace and dedicate this joint to MC Trouble
And to uh, Trouble T Roy
And to um, Scott La Rock
And to um, Cowboy, you know what I'm sayin?
This shit, gon' gift it
Word to the wise; keep it long distance
Don't need assistance, so mind your business
I hit and run, but when it comes to a sexy body, you're the one
Got a feeling that maybe this just was meant to be
Let's go, oh
Wanna feel you come in close like you belong to me
There's one thing I don't know
I would like, to get, to know you, baby
Like, to get, a piece of that sexy body
I would like, to get, to know you, baby
Like, to get, a piece of that sexy body
I would like, to get, to know you, baby
Like, to get, a piece of that sexy body
I would like, to get, to know you, baby
Like, to get, a piece of that sexy body
Like, to get, a piece of that sexy body
A piece of that sexy body
We've string beans, and onions
Cabbageses, and scallions,
And all sorts of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned to-mah-to
A Long Island po-tah-to
But yes, we have no bananas.
We have no bananas today."
Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."
Everybody
There is no competition
We the kings of New York where cash rules
In this game called life, you can't lose
And don't nobody get it confused
It's Staten Island vs. everybody this time, fool
Your gun up under the seats, we pay dues
We'll check S-I live, we bad news
And don't nobody get it confused
It's Staten Island vs. everybody this time, fool
We've string beans, and onions
Cabbageses, and scallions,
And all sorts of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned to-mah-to
A Long Island po-tah-to
But yes, we have no bananas.
We have no bananas today."
Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."
And I'm not gonna let some blasted government bureaucrat tell me how to run my business
But DOOM-
Will be my guest on my private estate on Long Island!
There's nothing you can do about it
He's dangerous, I just hope you know what you're doing
Don't I always?
Okay, check this out, man, let me tell you a story
About doing a fucking favor for a friend, right
We get in the car, I start driving
He want me to dump it somewhere in Long Island
Like out in some, you know, marsh
Or some wild field or some bullshit
That wasn't something unexpected
'Cause the nigga been doing dirt for years
He gets in, he gets out, but this time it's the Feds
So I know it's serious business
Heads or tails, death or jail
The road to success was hell
With the bones of the dead soldiers we left a trail
Your soul just left your shell (woo)
The cobra shed it's scales, the coke was Pelle Pelle (Pelle)
The rose Rollie' pink Champelle
Handlin' pills, Sam Cassell, slide on 'em (slide on 'em)
Hit em' up style, Blu Cantrell, you can't tell?
Ha, yeah
It go, gangsta, gangsta, thug, killa
I'm the black panther that shot the drug dealer (uh-huh)
I live on the block where dudes bust they knocks (mhm)
Ride on top of the car, they crush they rocks (like that)
Niggas hop my fence to run from cops
Shit, I'm a nigga too, so I know how niggas do
Keep it real, you should let that bullshit silence
You only been involved in domestic violence
Nigga, I chase Remis with Long Islands
Catch us in the club, doing them long wilding
It's the microphone marvelous Marvin Haggler
It's so obvious in the lobby, suavely dressed
Where the party is?
Ha, yeah
It go, gangsta, gangsta, thug, killa
I'm the black panther that shot the drug dealer (uh-huh)
I live on the block where dudes bust they knocks (mhm)
Ride on top of the car, they crush they rocks (like that)
Niggas hop my fence to run from cops
Shit, I'm a nigga too, so I know how niggas do
Keep it real, you should let that bullshit silence
You only been involved in domestic violence
Nigga, I chase Remis with Long Islands
Catch us in the club, doing them long wilding
It's the microphone marvelous Marvin Haggler
It's so obvious in the lobby, suavely dressed
Where the party is?
One, one two
Check me out right here, yo
Yo, the sun don't shine forever (you can turn the track up a little bit for me)
But as long as it's here then we might as well shine together (all up in my ears)
Better now than never, business before pleasure (the mic is loud, but the music isn't loud)
P.
One, one two
Check me out right here, yo
Yo, the sun don't shine forever (you can turn the track up a little bit for me)
But as long as it's here then we might as well shine together (all up in my ears)
Better now than never, business before pleasure (the mic is loud, but the music isn't loud)
P.
We've string beans, and onions
Cabbageses, and scallions,
And all sorts of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned to-mah-to
A Long Island po-tah-to
But yes, we have no bananas.
We have no bananas today."
Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."
Babylon yuh betta turn wi loose
God knows, turn wi loose now
Sing along, a little song
An guh a ting like
Freedom, for some I am bawling
Babylon yuh pull di chain from mi han
Mi still under yuh Babylon system
God knows, Freedom for some I am bawling
Oh Selassie I, rastafarian calling
Beenie Man a sing a ting
From the day mi know miself, man a born of mammal
Although yuh smart, dem sen yuh guh a Jamal
Teach yuh how fi spell gun and nuclear weapon
How fi spell politics and greet politician
Nowhere in the Bible where those words come from
Dem restore wi name an class us as African
When con is a short name for condemnation
I nuh know bout di I, I a true Ethiopian
Christopher Columbus, bout him discover island
Discover what when him come spot the Indian
An a him tun roun an all enslave black man
Mussolini an him friend dem tief the gold and all di diamond
Who steal wi name, check the queen wheh deh a England
A she build the pope and introduce vatican
From Constantine, Julius and all Pope John
Now dem reach Paul I wonder if dem want to expand
Queen Elie-zabeth, all she is a next one
Well mi naah guh too stress me just a look a explanation
This is the word from the black man
Freedom, for some I am bawling
Babylon yuh pull di chain from mi han
Mi still under yuh Babylon system
God knows, Freedom for some I am bawling
Oh Selassie I, rastafarian calling
Beenie Man a sing a ting
I say man a true needle kill the dragon and eagle
Murda di pope wheh a defender of evil
Long time dem bwoi deh a pressure black people
Have wi like a slave under chain and shackle
Now wi buss out inna muscle
Well a long time mi deh warn dem fi look to the east
Warning to the dragon and the mark of the beast
Mek dem a galong suh like dem caan tun discease
Call on the Selassie wheh a blow all di breeze
Weeping wailing, nashing of teeth
God judgment, is only certain man see it
Pope Constantine inna him grave an all a grief
This is no Pelican brief
My Speech
Freedom, for some I am bawling
Babylon yuh pull di chain from mi han
Mi still under yuh Babylon system
God knows, Freedom for some I am bawling
Oh Selassie I, rastafarian calling
Beenie Man a sing a ting
People, well unnuh clean out yuh ears an listen to mi lyrics
Yuh nuh hear bout di Lieshah di ball head prophet
Word of Elijah, di man used to spread it
John di most righteous man yet still wasn't a prophet
He could not be God, dem haffi tun him inna baptist
This is the meaning of ma lyrics in these times
Mandela come an try it
Well him never reach far, prison wall di man face it
Malcolm X try an a copper shot end it
All try and dem beat it an kill it
Marcus Garvey try, a fi rice dem sell it
Only we inna di music business can stop it
Follow Beenie Man and all live it
Freedom, for some I am bawling
Babylon yuh pull di chain from mi han
Mi still under yuh Babylon system
God knows, Freedom for some I am bawling
Oh Selassie I, rastafarian calling
Beenie Man a sing a ting
One, one two
Check me out right here yo
Yo, the sun don't shine forever
But as long as it's here then we might as well shine together
Better now than never, business before pleasure
P.
(P.Diddy)
10 years
Yo the sun don't shine forever
But as long as it's here then we might as well shine together
Better now than never business before pleasure
P-Diddy and the Fam, who you know do it better?
(P.Diddy)
10 years
Yo the sun don't shine forever
But as long as it's here then we might as well shine together
Better now than never business before pleasure
P-Diddy and the Fam, who you know do it better?
When we touchdown
[Chorus]
In the Midwest we OK
Everybody know them southern boys love that bass
Atlanta go bananas, Alabama, Louisiana
Mississippi tenekeys, every mothafuckin' state
When we touchdown
Go right from the plane to the range
When we touchdown
On the private plane gettin' brain, till we
Touchdown, eh ain't no way to keep 'em quiet
Wit T.I. and Shady baby we bout to insight a riot
When we touchdown
When we get in town, you know how we getting down
Pull a cling an hop on out, snatch all the freaks then walk on out
I'm livin' what they talkin' bout, shinin' if it dark or not
That one hundred D-X double R, you'll find that in the parkin' lot
You barkin' up the wrong tree, I do this shit for zone 3
4, 5 and 6 as well as 1, atlanta I'm forever son
Still be on whatever coat, grindin' blowin' heavy smoke
Him you better tell 'em fo, won't hesitate to let him go
They know I put that green light on them haters
Keep on tryin' me I'll put that beam right on ya tater
(Bow wow wow wow)
You don't wanna see T.I.P he irate
Try to keep in a cage but some how he keep escapin'
That's why I be on vacation, Virgin Islands I be takin'
Private planes out to Spain, now keep on flyin' I ain't fakin'
The money ain't a thing, think I'm lyin' your mistaken
You can find long lines, and all kinds of bitches your way
When we touchdown
[Chorus]
Welcome to the Midwest, yes
Where the Detroit players, ball like you have no idea
The boy is here
Got the whole place lookin' like its candy painted, ain't it
Like we left the kids at home and just let 'em loose with the crayons
Fuck, I just hit a jogger
People lookin' like frogger
They hoppin' out the way whenever they see Marshal's car comin'
The kids painted my windows with black, permanent marker
And left the rest of the car color cover like swirl pops
And I got the bass thumpin' but I'm bound to bump into something
Kids are flyin' through the air lookin' like they're crumpin', the way they're tumbling
I gotta do something
But soon as I hit the carwash, to get the tar off
Then it's right back at it tomorrow
They're like dad, this is in, so get with the trend
This is for the pimps, listenin' to MIMS, nail polish on the rims
And now it's custom chrome, but I gotta go do a show
So go on with your bad self, just have it back to normal when I
Touchdown
[Chorus]
From my arrival, to my departure
I guarantee I put this d-i-c-k in somebody daughter, ey
I still have my way with the ladies across the water
Flew from Paris to Haiti, just some shit that I thought of
Its ironic kind of shit that we buy man
Make us psychotic
Threat to corporate America, then why they runnin' from me
How could they be so ignorant look at what hip hop den done
Its allowed us to run a business, we should of made it our money
Got us out the ghettos, relocated our mommies
I made it all the way here, ain't no way you takin' it from me
So excuse me Oprah honey I'm sorry really I promise
But niggas bitches and hoes do exist I'm just bein' honest
But why am I bein' punished why is you so astonished
Now I ain't got a degree just intelligence and abundance
So you ain't gotta like me I know millions folks that love me
Well u can tell how they yellin' and screamin'
An waitin' for me
When I touchdown
[Chorus]
One, one two
Check me out right here, yo
Yo, the sun don't shine forever (you can turn the track up a little bit for me)
But as long as it's here then we might as well shine together (all up in my ears)
Better now than never, business before pleasure (the mic is loud, but the music isn't loud)
P.
Look what hip-hop done brung us!
It's allowed us to run a business, legitimated our moneys
Got us out of the ghettos and relocated our mommies
I made it all the way here, ain't no way you takin' it from me
So excuse me, Oprah, honey, I'm sorry, really I promise
But niggas, bitches and hoes do exist, I'm just bein' honest
For that am I being punished?
Order in the Court
Here ye, here ye, here ye
Step forward, Beachfront Vinny
The surf rock fraud charges before me
The High Surf Council Association finds you guilty
Judge Edward G. Oggen from the H.S.C.A.
Sentenced me to live out
The rest of my days
Surrounded by impersonators and tribute bands too
Uh oh, here comes fake Little Richard
Tutti Fruiti, wooh
The Eagles band with fake Joe Walsh, hey
Bases are loaded and Casey's at bat
Taking it day by day
My own private hell for a surf guy like me
Became known in the papers as the Nightmare in Maui
Back on Long Island
Things got way way worse
Black Sabbath tribute bands
Rolling up to gigs in a hearse
The lead singer though he really was Ozzy O.
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