Money, Power & Respect (Album Version)-The Lox

[ti:Money, Power Respect] [ar:DMX] [al:BillBoard Top 100 Of 1998] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.25]See I believe in money power and respect [00:03.20] [00:03.75]First You get the money [00:04.89]Then you get the muthaf**kin power [00:07.04]After you get the f**kin' power muthaf**kas will respect you [00:10.26]It's the key to life [00:11.44]Money power and respect [00:12.45]Whatchu' need in life [00:13.59]Money power and respect [00:14.81]When you eatin' right [00:16.04]Money power and respect [00:17.13]Help you sleep at night [00:18.45]You'll see the light [00:19.49]It's the key to life [00:20.88]Money power and respect [00:22.13]Whatchu' need in life [00:23.22]Money power and respect [00:24.87]When you eatin' right [00:26.02]Money power and respect [00:26.96]Money power and respect [00:28.37]Money power and respect [00:29.38]Ayo my whole clique bout it bout it [00:30.80]We take yours while you pout about it [00:32.42]Truck step out the whore's wanna' crowd around it [00:34.90]You could see me on optimum TV [00:36.81]Go in your bathroom turn the light out Scream [00:39.09]Bloody Mary 1 2 3 [00:40.28]Sheek ain't your usual friend [00:41.81]About to setchu' up like Kaiser and walk straight at the end [00:44.71]I'm done wit' ice and charms [00:45.87]I'm tryin' my whole casket when I'm gone [00:47.40] [00:48.02]Pull up wit' class on the don' [00:49.70]Once I meet em' I greet em' [00:51.13]Kiss his feet for freedom [00:52.26]Tell em' thank you lord [00:53.31]Cuz on Earth I was gettin' bored [00:54.87]Now resurrect me back to this cat called Sheek [00:57.00]So I can make this album [00:58.32]And get back the cats that's weak [00:59.76]Two thirty six two [01:01.15]Me bust for you that's like a cat vs a pitbull [01:03.65]Gun know clip full keep hunger [01:05.74]And plan for the future cuz you figure [01:07.77]You gon' be older [01:08.66]Way longer than you gon' be younger [01:10.16]It's the key to life [01:11.11]Money power and respect [01:12.28]Whatchu' need in life [01:13.32]Money power and respect [01:14.69]When you eatin' right [01:15.77]Money power and respect [01:17.17]Help you sleep at night [01:18.39]You'll see the light [01:19.41]It's the key to life [01:20.84]Money power and respect [01:22.22]Whatchu' need in life [01:23.43]Money power and respect [01:24.53]When you eatin' right [01:25.88]Money power and respect [01:27.21]Money power and respect [01:28.39]Money power and respect [01:29.92]It's the key to life [01:31.01]Only time could tell how the clock ticks [01:33.79]I'm really loved here but I'm still a hostage [01:36.22]Two personalities check the posture [01:38.68]Smoke out the mouth clear out the nostrils [01:40.99]You think of death but the life seem scary [01:43.56]I'm past the graveyard seein' people Hail Mary [01:45.41] [01:46.20]I ain't chillin til' I'm out parachutin' [01:48.48]Race my man in mountain climbin' for about ten diamonds [01:50.92]Twenty five thousand a piece [01:52.91]F**k streets [01:53.54]Tryin' to own the island [01:55.15]Forget about wilin' [01:56.17]Try ridin' in the car that be glidin' [01:58.78]If I showed you where I lived you would think I was hidin' [02:01.16]Sling dick to chicks that don't speak English [02:03.05] [02:03.59]Wake up in Trinidad like f**kin' em rich [02:05.88]Come back Private jet [02:07.81]Live on set [02:08.80]If you could sh*t gold like you split the decks [02:10.08]It's the key to life [02:11.16]Money power and respect [02:11.89] [02:12.47]Whatchu' need in life [02:13.64]Money power and respect [02:14.92]When you eatin' right [02:16.16]Money power and respect [02:17.29]Help you sleep at night [02:18.65]You'll see the light [02:19.56]It's the key to life [02:20.88]Money power and respect [02:22.40]Whatchu' need in life [02:23.58]Money power and respect [02:24.84]When you eatin' right [02:26.21]Money power and respect [02:27.52]Money power and respect [02:28.46]Money power and respect [02:30.00]Yo nutin' but the hotness [02:30.96]Whenever we drop this [02:31.83]Monotonous for ya'll to keep hatin' [02:33.53]Cuz ya'll never gon' stop us [02:34.99]I keep my rocks spotless [02:36.29]And my hoes topless [02:37.57]Take time try to figure out who da Lox is [02:40.15]Fear no one [02:41.00]Kick rhymes like Shoguns [02:42.22]You scared to blow one [02:43.63]Get robbed wit' your own gun [02:45.01]If I don't respect you I'm ah check you [02:46.93]And if I don't kiss you I'm a peck you [02:49.01]Right before I wet' chu [02:49.98]I sneeze on tracks an' bless you [02:51.90]I'm special [02:52.57]And if you like workin' out [02:53.86]Then I'm gon' stretch you [02:55.14]Husslin' is dead but we still get red [02:57.28]Turn the spots in the bakeries to get back bread [02:59.36]And ya'll said my monies spent [03:01.58]But it's in the Bent' [03:02.76]So when the feds come the dogs can't get a scent [03:04.98]For my story self-explanatory [03:06.78]That I'm the hottest thing on the street [03:08.66]An' yall ain't got nutin' for me [03:10.14]It's the key to life [03:11.32]Money power and respect [03:12.50]Whatchu' need in life [03:13.72]Money power and respect [03:14.87]When you eatin' right [03:16.15]Money power and respect [03:17.46]Help you sleep at night [03:18.75]You'll see the light [03:19.65]It's the key to life [03:21.02]Money power and respect [03:22.50]Whatchu' need in life [03:23.59]Money power and respect [03:24.66]When you eatin' right [03:26.09]Money power and respect [03:27.46]Money power and respect [03:28.58]Money power and respect [03:30.31]Arf arf [03:31.26]This is a beat that I can freak to [03:32.92]Just drop the reals [03:33.82]Plus a ni**a wit' the ill [03:35.02]Ya'll niggas know my skills [03:36.30]A** from the grills get em' up [03:38.08]Split em' up wet em' up [03:40.11]And watch em' come get em' up [03:41.81]Set em' up [03:42.75]When you do dirt you get dirt [03:44.07]B**ch I'll make your sh*t hurt [03:45.23]Step back like I did worse [03:46.34]This ain't no f**king game [03:47.67]You think I'm playin till you layin [03:49.40]To where The junkyard decayin' [03:51.38]Mom's at home prayin' [03:52.47]That chu comin' home [03:53.52]But chu not cuz you sittin up in the trunk [03:55.77]Startin to rot [03:56.53]And hell is hot I know because I'm here now Baby [03:59.10]It's goin' down baby [04:00.34]Git the full pound baby [04:01.61]And let off up in a ni**a [04:02.95]Especially if he think he bigga' [04:04.80]Than my muthaf**kin' trigga' [04:06.29]Did I [04:07.00]Can I get my [04:08.02]Is it gone [04:08.87]DMX represent for one time [04:10.13]It's on [04:10.48]It's the key to life [04:11.39]Money power and respect [04:12.43]Whatchu' need in life [04:13.69]Money power and respect [04:15.03]When you eatin' right [04:16.33]Money power and respect [04:17.61]Help you sleep at night [04:18.75]You'll see the light [04:19.78]It's the key to life [04:21.25]Money power and respect [04:22.49]Whatchu' need in life [04:23.67]Money power and respect [04:24.84]When you eatin' right [04:26.00]Money power and 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