(Intro)
Me and poverty nuh friend no longer
Me and poverty nuh friend no longer
(Verse 1)
Mi just cut off one a mi friend
The one weh love barrow and never can lend
Him meck white squall box mi down flat a Grands Pen
And hungry a kick from when
Sake a that friend my life dryy skin
Mi use to beg weed, man couldn’t buy blem
Mi couldn’t buy a chain it nuh pretty fly gem
Everyday get worst but mi never try hang
Waan some new friend now
Yeah some Benjamin Franklin
New Shearer, but the Nanny fi do spanking
Euro a mi best friend pon BB
Pon facebook, Pound, Sterling, Ranking
Must turn friend with CI, thank him!
Ratio high fi do offshore banking
Mi glag when mi cut off da friend deh a Magatti
Go s**k yo mumma poverty
(Chorus)
Cause right now a money a mi friend, money a mi friend
Mi nuh like poverty, mi nuh like beg
Suh a money a mi friend, money a mi friend
If is even a one grand, mi nuh like beg
Suh a money a mi friend, money a mi friend
Yo cyaa trust people but money buy friend
Suh a money a mi friend, money a mi friend
Listen meck mi tell unuh again
(Verse 2)
The friend whe mi use to have
Weh mi use to rob
Same poverty, him meck mi use to bad
If mi tell you some road weh mi use to chad
Meck christian seh mi nuh use to God
Mi a talk to the youth dem weh use to grab
People phone and chain get use to drop
Pree a 9-5, low the 4-5
Poverty meck people seh yo use to mad
Ghetto youth cut off da friend deh
Money you fi friend yeah
Money a mosquito, meck it give you dengue
Just don’t bow or rub up in a bengae
To how yo pocket dem slim
As yo turn friend wid money dem fatter than Bembi
If yo si mi up a Ready Wednesday
A just me, and mi catty, and mi gun
(Repeat Chorus)
