A Couple Dollars - Apollo Brown, Skyzoo, Joell Ortiz

We just wanted to live

They told us that countin' up somethin'

Seems the only way you can live

Swear to God we just wanted to live

They told us that countin' up somethin'

Seems the only way you can live

In love with a mattress that was somewhat outta place

Where due to old habits it can double as a Chase

Talkin' major key, let it cut you out a case

And tryna run the city 'til it run you outta state

Told us all of this is straight, and it’s worth what you wait on

Starin' at the exit like «yo I ain’t tryna stay long»

Kitchen table decorator situate a plate on

Jeśus, heavy is the head the crown lay on

But all of this straight

Runnin' outta state is what you play for and stay for

To turn to what you leave for, get your 16 on

Like talkin' mic check, throw the beat on

Or talkin' 'bout a key but being 20 OZ short

16 ain’t enough, Andre features

As quick as you can be on, you’ll be gone

Waiting on a detour, couple U-turns to where you belong

At best you can get your sight see on

Just need a couple dollars

A couple dollars baby

Bet you I can plug 'em

Til the wallet dropping babies

Just need a couple dollars

A couple dollars baby

Told if I can get 'em

All of them will save me

Saved in a drop top BM

Right side, DM

All praise due up

Tell him when I see him

Started with a couple dollars baby

Was told if I can get 'em

All of them will save me

It’s off a couple dollars

And it sounds like beautiful like the truth

Like «she bad but even more beautiful in the coupe»

And seeing that was seeing all that I would need to pursue

The e-class that was used to corner me off the stoop

Was as clean as the book that your hand on

When you prayed that we stayed away from them anthems

Fuck is left for us except for us to go stand on

A box with a rope and a bottle of Spade

Carpe diem, carpe diem, make it pop it for the day

I threw money to jeweler, sneaker box full of change

Know me, I’m no better I’m about it the same

Cause on a box with a rope is how we got in this frame

Now flick it up, one time for 'em, one time for 'em

Know it’s lit if they in here with the 9 on 'em

One time for em, one time for em

And the parades lining up along the side for 'em

Just need a couple dollars

A couple dollars baby

Bet you I can plug 'em

Til the wallet dropping babies

Just need a couple dollars

A couple dollars baby

Told if I can get 'em

All of them will save me

Saved in a drop top BM

Right side, DM

All praise due up

Tell him when I see him

Started with a couple dollars baby

Was told if I can get 'em

All of them will save me

It’s off a couple dollars

As a youngin', had a lot on my plate

I ain’t finna complain, just had a lot on my plate

Razors, 12 12 skinnies and 58s

I cooked a 6 deuce and came back with 58

I ain’t stressin', I ain’t stretch it, I just cheffed it in the butter

Orville Redenbacher, had it poppin', word to mother

Swervin' under covers, had it local, had it OT

Whippin' up P-O-T tryna get to the T-O-P

Get in and get out, that’s always the plan

But all of them bands to a kid in the project who had nothin', so damned

Hard to let go from starvin' stomach, hollow with the echo

To the hardest Marc Ecko extra large retro

MJs before they dropped, but a lot started to drop

Stick up kids got the drop, my sneaker box dropped

Dropped crack, switched to diesel when some fiends dropped

Feds eavesdroppin'' on my drop, got 'em street blocked

They dropped by my man’s spot so now he locked

I drop to both knees prayin' dimes don’t get dropped

Dropped it all, be the bird locked in the coupe

Or take your talent more serious and lock in that booth

I chose the latter, and thank God for showin' Joe the ladder

Helped me climb through these rhymes

Who said I would never matter?

Look at me, such a hard act to follow

Lookin' forward to tomorrow, you’ll never hear me holler

Just need a couple dollars

A couple dollars baby

Bet you I can plug 'em

Til the wallet dropping babies

Just need a couple dollars

A couple dollars baby

Told if I can get 'em

All of them will save me

Saved in a drop top BM

Right side, DM

All praise due up

Tell him when I see him

Started with a couple dollars baby

Was told if I can get 'em

All of them will save me

It’s off a couple dollars