Get The Money Video (MV)

(Intro)

I got ambitions, I got plans to get busy.
I got ambitions, I got plans to get busy - one day.
One day. One day. One day.

(Verse)

Long nights, long flights on the east side of Queens.
I reminisce about the visions we would think of as teens.
Feeling empty cause my memory is honestly depleting.
Grew up broke as f*ck and so the dollar is deceiving.
At least that's how I thought of when I was brought up a fetus. I was off in the evening,
Lost the meaning of believing.
Grieving cause no one who I grew up with could understand me.
Not even my best friends,
Especially not my family
Even as an adult I feel the sadness in my pulse.
At a comedy show but I'm laughing cause I'm the joke.
Watching capitalism wrap its hands around my throat.
Thinking why be a Goat when lying gets you the throne.
Hear me,
I didn't always see clearly.
I was driven but the system didn't know how to steer me.
Child of immigrants who were learning their English from TV.
And what's crazy is,
Money was the language
I always had to translate for them.

(Chorus)
This is my city,
And damn right I rep it to the fullest.
Put on for my hometown,
Show the young kids how to do this.
A lot of shit done changed since the days I was a student.
But Queens get the money, it was written, I'ma prove it.

(Verse)
This is who I am on the daily.
The younger me would tell me I don't think you get it, man, he would hate me.
Cause the way I think about making money now is kinda J.D. Rockefeller.
Plan won't get foiled by hip-hop pretenders.
I am the lochness of the metropolitan.
Whole city behind me like the meteorologist.
Queens get the money yeah I gotta represent.
Beats knocking cause I knocked on doors but they ain't let me in.
Then again.
I need money, I need freedom.
Not many people with means from the streets we from.
Couldn't teach us, couldn't reach us,
Cause the teachers felt defeated, and our parents were defeatists cause their dreams were never achievements.
Life would beat them, it would leave them,
Weakened in their incompletions.
Perceiving the playing field as uneven,
If they even tried.
And now I'm bragging about a salary.
Truth is I made a success story out their tragedy.

(Bridge)
Hey ma, I want to be rich.
I wanna get us out of this mess.
No more struggle to pay rent.
Time for us to take a chance in the city.
I got ambitions,
I got plans to get busy.
I got ambitions,
I got plans to get busy.
One day, one day,
I'm a be rich.
Promise we gon make it out this bitch.

(Chorus)
This is my city,
And damn right I rep it to the fullest.
Put on for my hometown,
Show the young kids how to do this.
A lot of shit done changed since the days I was a student.
But Queens get the money, it was written, I'ma prove it.