"When You Have No Money"

[bigted]

What's up y'all it's been a while since I posted some of my rhymes, I haven't really had much time to write that much new material but I came across this song in my rhyme book and figured I'd share it with y'all, Enjoy y'all: :1-say-yes:

“When You Have No Money”

Written By Big Ted

Intro(3X):

You don't need a degree to see

That the world evolves around money

Nothing's free

Verse One:

No matter where you travel

It all comes down to economic matters

You gotta have the cash flow

'Cause you need a plan to grow

In order to get a hand full of doe

Nobody's gonna help you out

When you have money problems found

Everybody tries to hurt you now

'Cause you can't buy thing that're expensive

And don't worry, you'll get dissed

By those you thought they were your friends

They have no affection, don't depend on them

Y'all know hoes only wanna french kiss

If you go and buy them necklaces

But don't buy into it

I'll give them some French

With me it's more like, “Non merci beaucoup”

You know how I'm not interested in you

If you give that point of view

That's the way I interpret it

A lot of peopl play to blurt out a diss

If you don't own this

Or you don't wear that

I can't no longer bear that

Fools always act like they got it all

Until the day where their stock falls

And they ain't got nothin' at all

Everything appears all great

Until you forget to save for rainy days

Chorus:

When you have no money

You'll see who's your friend

They might just be after your money

And when the day you don't have any

You won't see many of them

You'll won't see many of them

You'll see that you don't need them

In order to survive, you need to have money

If you want to stay alive, it comes down to economics

In this life it comes down to economics

Verse Two:

All around this world

People are dying of hunger

And tonight many wonder

If they'll find any shelter

To go under

When it's cold in the street

And they have nothin' to eat

Yet we see punks worry

'Bout buying new And-1's every week

While others are dying of disease

Even diseases like HIV

Could be avoided in places like Africa

But nobody pays funds to teach them

'Bout the aftermath of it

So the morality's jet

When there's nobody to teach them about safe sex

At least in America there's opportunity

We're better off than many countries

A lot of us take for granted

All the opportunitys we have

But in this generation

It's all about immitation

Rather than innovation

'Cause if we don't dress like celebrities

We see on television

People will believe that there's something

Wrong if you don't blend in

With all of the bling-bling

And you can't afford it

Many people act like they're better

Than you, if they're more rich

And you get depressed

[Repeat Chorus]

Verse Three:

When you're parents ain't ever home

Nobody's teaching you right from wrong

So you'll believe that there's nothin' wrong

With going on the streets hustling

'Cause you don't feel loving

And you're sick and tired of being picked on

When you can't buy that s*** to floss

Nobody wants to be your dog

And girls grow up

Also seein' no love and needin' some bucks

So they decide to be prostitutes

They need a way to find money after dropping out of school

Then babies get born

In a society more scorn

A lot of things can be so wrong

There's reality in the flow of the song

'Cause I see this on the news

All this makes confused

I know 1st hand 'cause I never went on a vacation beyond America

I can't afford the Bahamas

Growing up, I barely had enough

I couldn't buy rich clothes

And I ended up getting dissed by hoes

When I let their lies show

That I rather protect my doe

When I get it, y'all don't look out for me

Your parents are rich so you wanna party

And not study at your college dormitory

Since I've been poor, knowledge is the only thing that I get going for me

'Cause I know that it'll bring me more money

Then I'll see that people will wanna be knowin' me

Like The Lox said, pwer and respect come from money

And I don't wanna die from poverty, 'cause you see...

[Repeat Chorus]

[J-o-e]

Another Solid Rhyme Bidted!!!

[mfuqua23]

"Y'all know hoes only wanna french kiss

If you go and buy them necklaces" - nice line, but I think "hoes" take it a lil further when it comes to money, unless they're scandalouz.

"...But don't buy into it

I'll give them some French

With me it's more like, “Non merci beaucoup”" - that was nice continuation. My french is a lil rusty but that's 'No thank U very much'.

I loved how the rhyme just went on wit it. Great subject matter.

[fan 4ever]

Dope rhymes Ted..You should record this one! :2thumbs:

[bigted]

"Y'all know hoes only wanna french kiss

If you go and buy them necklaces" - nice line, but I think "hoes" take it a lil further when it comes to money, unless they're scandalouz.

"...But don't buy into it

I'll give them some French

With me it's more like, “Non merci beaucoup”" - that was nice continuation. My french is a lil rusty but that's 'No thank U very much'.

I loved how the rhyme just went on wit it. Great subject matter.

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Yeah that's what "non merci beaucoup" really means but the closest thing I could say in french that'd rhyme with the song to make my point, I coulda said something else instead but it'd break the flow, I took french a few years when I was in high school so I know quite a bit of it, I try to put more knowledge into the rhymes to seperate me from most mcs that sound generic, that's what most of the great mcs do. I appreciate the feedback! :kool: