Money's Just a Touch Away
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This song is dedicated to all the up and
Coming rappers, singers, hustlers, actors
Whatever you may be, remember
Without no struggle, you get no progress
So keep grinding, keep on mashing, get yours
You're not that far from coming up (Keep on)
Money's just a touch away (Keep on)
So keep on grinding, don't give it up (Keep on)
There'll always be another day
And now I'm sitting at the pad, teary-eyed and depressed
Starving and suffering from mental stress
Now a true sinner to the game of beginner
But hard to feel like a winner when you eat spreads for dinner
Hit the streets late night and upon a star I'm wishing
On a 2-11 mission just to pay tuition
For my kids I got to grind and develop street savvy
Serving stress 'cause I just ain't got enough to cop Cappy
But I can't stop, I won't stop 'til I got it made
Either build my clientele, get a job or learn a trade
Like hip-hop, you make enough to live good forever
So I learned to write rhymes and get my metaphors together
Then I joined a rap crew with the homies on my street
Selling underground tapes out the local swap meet
Getting tighter on the mic as I work day to day
So now I lay down at night and I hear voices say
You're not that far from coming up (Keep on)
Money's just a touch away (Keep on)
So keep on grinding, don't give it up (Keep on)
There'll always be another day
Now I'm new to the scene, anxious and hard up as a nympho
So like EPMD, could you please listen to my demo?
I left the local crew, felt like I was the man
In popular demand and now ready for SoundScan
So I searched for a deal, with no luck I kept rapping
Felt like it would take a miracle to make it all happen
Martha said it was a test, "Mack, don't do nothing wrong
Just have faith in God and keep your hustle going strong
Stay hungry, keep writing, don't quit, you're too close
Remember good things come to those who want it most"
So I never left the house without my rap book
Thought I found a new crew but eventually got shook
First they said I was cool but then started to doubt me
Put me on the back burner and just forgot all about me
Probably said I wasn't fresh and sent me on my way
But you know what? As I was leaving I could hear voices say
You're not that far from coming up (Keep on)
Money's just a touch away (Keep on)
So keep on grinding, don't give it up (Keep on)
There'll always be another day
Now the tables turned but I remember they used to clown me
The hard work paid off and luck finally found me
So call every publication, Billboard and the editor
And tell 'em Mack's being signed by dude working on the Predator
I got the modern touch, now everything be the bomb
Hooked up with the Don, now made a few million
I don't bang, I write the good rhymes, you know about mine
Man, I'm the tightest MC Ice Cube ever signed
Now if it ain't the radio, it's a video shoot
Living life in the limelight with a bank full of loot
Now my crew is solid, shook the haters and the leeches
Running full court at my house with our girls in the bleachers
Plus the violence has ceased, no more bicoastal beef
'Cause now I get down with the North, South and the East
I reminisce on hard times, seem like yesterday
But now hoop banging is official and I remember they used to say
You're not that far from coming up (Keep on)
Money's just a touch away (Keep on)
So keep on grinding, don't give it up (Keep on)
There'll always be another day
Man, I knew I was gon' make it
But they didn't believe me, you know what I'm saying?
Clowned me, gon' be a rapper, what? Haha
Who got the last laugh, player?
Seven figures later