It Doesn't Matter (Inst.)-Wyclef Jean

[00:00.02]Yo this is the Rock kicking it with the Refugee camp [00:02.63]And you're 'bout to smell what the Rock is cooking [00:06.55]Yo this is strictly a club record [00:08.33]Dedicated to everybody who used to stand outside in the cold [00:12.31]When the F-L-E-X was spinning at the Red Zone hooded down [00:16.85]And these tired bouncers would not let me in [00:19.27]You know what I'm saying [00:19.91]Yo yo yo [00:21.24]I got fifty Bentley's in the West Indies [00:24.12](It doesn't matter) [00:25.58]I got a pocket full of cheese and a garden full of trees [00:28.26](It doesn't matter) [00:29.80]I just won the bingo bought a crib in Rio [00:32.41](It doesn't matter) [00:33.91]Cause if you ain't sharing people ain't caring [00:36.31]Come up in the hood and they take everything you wearin' [00:38.59]Back in the days it was all about the clubs [00:40.53]And the so-called thugs used to dance the break for love [00:43.11]The girls they wouldn't say "Hey" [00:44.70]Unless you bought 'em champagne like it was they birthday [00:46.92]Me I used to stand outside [00:48.67]Hustling my way in I'm on the guest list plus five [00:51.11]Who's performing tonight He said Shabba [00:53.23]Mister Lover Daddy he be the selector [00:55.14](Someone jump the Rock's up in here) [00:57.05]Disrespect emcees and catch a smack in your left ear [00:59.50]Light up like Vegas when it's time to gamble [01:01.31]Girls scream for me like I was part of the Beatles [01:03.35]But I'm not honey but I could be your Paul McCartney [01:05.57]And "Ebony or Ivory" into my Jacuzzi [01:07.56]Foundation like Kool Herc or DJ Red Alert goes bezerk [01:10.24]The needle ain't skip the record jerked [01:11.83]Cause y'all jumping too hard [01:12.28](Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey) [01:15.71]I got fifty Bentley's in the West Indies [01:18.38](It doesn't matter) [01:19.82]I got a pocket full of cheese and a garden full of trees [01:22.50](It doesn't matter) [01:23.69]What I just won the bingo bought a crib in Rio [01:26.73](It doesn't matter) [01:27.77]Yo 'cause if you ain't sharing people ain't caring [01:30.60]Come up in the hood and they take everything you wearin' [01:32.65](Yo Rock I just bought a fresh Bentley) [01:34.61](It doesn't matter you just bought a fresh Bentley) [01:37.44]How many of y'all ever been to a barbecue [01:39.01]And you always got an aunt or uncle [01:41.08]Wanna show you how the old dances go [01:43.37]And they start it off like this [01:45.09]Electric slide on the dance floor [01:47.48]Freaky-deaky like Studio 54 [01:49.41]Girls Until the IRS raids it [01:51.75]Drug money get converted into music [01:53.71]The d**e man becomes an entertainer [01:55.69]Leave that crack alone I told the customers [01:57.89]I'm into bigger and better things Mr. Fiend [01:59.94]You want a hit Give me a guitar and a drum machine [02:01.98]And the crowd will scream loud when the bass thump [02:04.20]I can smell it in the air the smell is funk [02:06.78]Excuse me I gotta cough [02:08.18]Girl you in so much ice you could freeze New York [02:10.20]You're man must really love you what does he do for a living [02:12.30](He works on Wall Street he's only home two nights a week) [02:14.60]That's when she said a little too much conversation [02:16.70]Think she want to indulge in lyrical masturbation [02:18.84]So I proceeded with the conversation I said [02:20.47]Can I offer you a glass of Merlot Mrs. No Name [02:22.97](Let's get it straight huh my name's Veronica) [02:24.99]She had the a** the size of South America [02:27.02]She said ain't you that kid that sing Guantanamera [02:29.24]Way before Ricky Martin sung "Livin' la vida loca" [02:31.89]What hood you come from [02:32.92]I was raised in Brooklyn but did my studies in Jerusalem [02:35.25]The New Jerusalem yup that's short for New Jersey [02:37.32]Checked my watch it was a quarter to three [02:39.47]Slid to her crib when we opened the door [02:41.28]Her man was on the bottle waiting for her with the 44 [02:43.49]Now what it look like it ain't really that [02:45.96](It doesn't matter) [02:47.88]So he cocked the gat at my top hat [02:50.13](It doesn't matter) [02:52.07]Are you crazy You was married [02:54.28](It doesn't matter) [02:55.91]Cause if you ain't sharing people ain't caring [02:58.42]Come up in your hood and they take everything you wearin' [03:00.61]Yeah that's when shorty walked up to her man [03:03.73]And she said I gotta go I can't be here no more [03:07.05]And she said this [03:08.18]Take me home to the place [03:12.30]I belong at the Refugee Camp [03:16.27]And the Booga basement [03:18.34]That's where I live oh [03:21.04]Come on [03:23.92]Yo Rock I sold like seventeen million records [03:26.41](It doesn't matter how many records you've sold) [03:28.75]Alright I'm with you yo check it out [03:29.79](It doesn't matter) [03:31.91](It doesn't matter if the Rock wants to go get diamond rings or not) [03:34.78]Man listen listen [03:35.36]I just got two new Grammy's man [03:37.70](It doesn't matter about your Grammy's) [03:46.66](It doesn't matter) [03:48.54]