Best hip-hop songs about being broke/making money by any means

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Being quite broke all the time, I tend to identify more easily with the songs about needy rappers telling how they struggle to get their hands on some dollars than with the bling bling hood rich ones... Too bad you can't hear much songs like this these times...

1. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
2. Black Moon - Munne Munne
3. Wu-Tang Clan - CREAM
4. Geto Boys - Ain't with Being Broke

― jeantu (jeantu), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

DJ Krush (w/C.L. Smooth) - Only The Strong Survive.

― biz, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Dizzee Rascal - Everywhere (assuming this the one with the "gotta get that dough" sample)

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Biggie - Juicy

"Tremendous CREAM, fuck a dollar and dream
still tote gats strapped with infrared beams."

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

"Back Then" Mike Jones
"I Wish" Skee-Lo
"How Will I Make It" Big L

― burna (burna), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

"H.U.S.T.L.E." Murs/9th Wonder

― burna (burna), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Pharcyde 'Drop'

"the worth of my birth is a billion and you know what time it is i'm gonna make a million"

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

A Tribe Called Quest, "Buggin' Out"

Believe that if you wanna but I tell you this much
Riding on the train with no dough, sucks.
Once again a case of your feet in my nike’s
If a crowd is in my realm I’m saying -- mic please
Hip-hop is living, can’t yank the plug
If you do the result, will end up kind of bugged

― special_ed, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

You mean "Big Poppa," though "Juicy" is, of course, about the rise from rags to riches and should make this list.

"Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis,
When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this,
Fifty-inch screen, money green, leather sofa,
Got two rides, a limousine wit da chauffeur..."

― Adam Harrison-Friday, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

pretty much every hiphop song but especially

Wu Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.

― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Whilst we're on the subject of Biggie, I feel it's my duty to remind you of "Gimme the Loot"

"Goodness gracious the papers,
where the cash at
where the stash at
nigga pass that!"

Started listening to that song right now, so fantastic.

― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Biggie-gimme the loot.

Busy Bee-making cash money.

― Ellis, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

WC and the MAAD Circle(feat. Lench Mob and Mc Eiht) - U Don't Work, U Don't Eat

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Eric B. & Rakim-paid in full (duh).

― Ellis, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Shit.

Scrub that.

― Ellis, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Jay Z-dead presidents 1 + 2.

Jay Z & Jermaine Dupri-money ain't a thing.

Puffy, The Lox, Lil' Kim, Biggie-it's all about the benjamins.

Hy Tymes & Sadat X-ka ching.

― Ellis, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Beatnuts-find that.

Beatnuts + Poet & Hostyle-thinkin' 'bout cash.

― Ellis, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Slum Village - Get Dis Money

― DawsonRules, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

That Kanye West song with the children's choir. His "Hard Knock Life." "Drug dealin just to get by, etc. etc. etc."

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

jay-z dead presidents

― Secundus Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

"Cheddar" WC * Ice Cube

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Best hip-hop label name about being broke/making money by any means:

BBE - Barely Breaking Even

― Rob Uptight. (Rob Uptight.), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

The Message Grandmaster Flash

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

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