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Just Another Rapper with a Money Song

from Glyde Drexler by Sankofa

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When I got this beat and heard the vocal samples, I knew exactly what kind of song it was going to be. This is not intended to be a tongue in cheek track, reacting to the near limitless supply of rappers rapping about how they're spending money, it's a track that got me realizing how much I think about money.

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And you can bet your man scored
A wardrobe from the secondhand stores
Now my feet demand more
A pair of Clarks sandals my only yearly new pair
Toes dangled over the front because I grew there
Penny for your thoughts in a nickel plated jar
A dime in the rough, quarter past time to starve
Even after savings had started to climb
I still live my life an Aldi quarter cart at a time
Traded in a lot of savings paying off student loans
College the perpetual trap to snap your fiscal bones
But the parasite is smart enough to never kill the host
keep sucking blood until the bills bewilder most
Bankruptcy won’t save you, word to Joe Biden
I know people who won’t answer the phone, hiding
Behind their caller ID
Trying to get a piece of every dollar that they might see


My credit card is not a savings account
Many are mistaken, that is why it’s making them drown
In ‘93 it was a big deal I got a credit card
Then banks figured they could sell your debt and get it large
Almost every custom pair of kicks in my closet
I bought with cash back bonuses, boss tip
20 turns to 25, 40 goes to 50
So I plan ahead and get for free the fresh that fits me
529as for each of our sons
Trying to get them a head start on college loans with a bump
Odds are good that'll only cover their meal plans
The price of tuition keeps climbing seems a real scam
I’m not using bricks of bills to make my phone calls with
My phone bill is big enough as it is
Then again, that’s probably the amount that I’ve paid
For all the years of data that I’ve frittered away


Grown up style, now I’ve got a mortgage
And for the next forever years I’m paying for it
Refinanced to get the rates down to 3 from 6
believe me, we’re not living like some hedonists
Put an extra hundred on the principal each month
Just to speed up the rate that we can be free from
My wife’s got the dope job and so we breathe a bit
IRAs and 403bs, it seems legit
But that's imaginary money that we don't touch
Until the time comes, A&W are grown ups
Gas station stops with some pops in the foam cups
And memberships to dope spots so our sons can grow thus
Money makes the world go ‘round
Chasing its tail until we all fall down
Now, it serves a purpose
But when wants become the needs we need to reconvene and seek the meaning beyond seeking recent purchase

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from Glyde Drexler, released April 18, 2020
phd beats
scratches by DJ Konfewshus

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