Lyrics for Mo Money Mo Problems by The Notorious B.I.G. - Songfacts

Mo Money Mo Problems

Album: Life After Death (1997)
Charted: 6 1
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  • I'm coming out
    I'm coming
    I'm coming out
    I'm coming

    Now, who's hot, who not?
    Tell me who rock, who sell out in the stores?
    You tell me who flopped, who copped the blue drop?
    Whose jewels got rocks?
    Who's mostly Dolce down to the tube sock?
    The same old pimp, Ma$e
    You know ain't nothin' change but my limp
    Can't stop 'til I see my name on a blimp
    Guarantee a million sales, call it love or luck
    You don't believe in Harlem World, nigga, double up
    We don't play around, it's a bet, lay it down
    Niggas didn't know me '91, bet they know me now
    I'm the young Harlem nigga with the Goldie sound
    Can't no Ph.D. niggas hold me down
    Cudda schooled me to the game, now I know my duty
    Stay humble, stay low, blow like Hootie
    True pimp niggas spend no dough on the booty
    And then you yell, "There go Mase", there go your cutie

    I don't know what they want from me
    It's like the more money we come across
    The more problems we see
    I don't know what they want from me
    It's like the more money we come across (yeah, yeah, a-ha)
    The more problems we see

    I'm the D to the A to the D-D-Y
    Know you'd rather see me die than to see me fly
    I call all the shots
    Rip all the spots, rock all the rocks, cop all the drops
    I know you thinkin' now, "When all the ballin' stops?"
    Nigga never home, gotta call me on the yacht
    10 years from now we'll still be on top
    Yo, I thought I told you that we won't stop
    Now what you gon' do with a crew that got money much longer than yours
    And a team much stronger than yours?
    Violate me, this'll be your day, we don't play
    Mess around, be D.O.A. be on your way
    'Cause it ain't enough time here
    Ain't enough lime here for you to shine here
    Deal with many women but treat dimes fair
    And I'm bigger than the city lights down in Times Square
    Yeah, yeah, yeah

    I don't know what they want from me
    It's like the more money we come across
    The more problems we see
    I don't know what they want from me
    It's like the more money we come across (uh)
    The more problems we see (uh)

    B-I-G P-O-P-P-A
    No info for the DEA
    Federal agents mad 'cause I'm flagrant
    Tap my cell and the phone in the basement
    My team supreme, stay clean
    Triple beam lyrical dream, I be that
    Cat you see at all events bent
    Gats in holsters, girls on shoulders
    Playboy, I told ya, mere mics to me
    Bruise too much, I lose too much
    Step on stage, the girls boo too much
    I guess it's 'cause you run with lame dudes too much
    Me lose my touch? Never that
    If I did, ain't no problem to get the gat
    Where the true players at? Throw your Rollies in the sky
    Wave 'em side to side and keep your hands high
    While I give your girl the eye, player, please
    Lyrically, niggas see B.I.G be flossin'
    Jig on the cover of Fortune, 5-double-O
    Here's my phone number, your man ain't got to know
    I got the dough, got the flow down pizat
    Platinum plus like thizat
    Dangerous on trizacks leave your ass flizat

    I don't know what they want from me
    It's like the more money we come across
    The more problems we see
    I don't know what they want from me
    It's like the more money we come across
    The more problems we see
    I don't know what they want from me
    It's like the more money we come across
    The more problems we see

    What's going on? (Oh, what's going on?)
    Somebody tell me (what's going on?)

    I don't know what they want from me
    It's like the more money we come across
    The more problems we see
    I don't know what they want from me
    It's like the more money we come across
    The more problems we see
    I don't know what they want from me
    It's like the more money we come across
    The more problems we see
    I don't know what they want from me
    It's like the more money we come across
    The more problems we see Writer/s: Bernard Edwards, Christopher Wallace, J Phillips, Mason Betha, Nile Gregory Rodgers, Sean Combs, Steve Jordan
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 5

  • Steven from Sa , Txtha fly kid notorious big
  • Austin from Smallsville,new England, --This song was one of the few that helped get rap into the pop mainstream. THis song was released around Rap's 'Shiny Period' were the videos put more emphasis on dancing and rappers started sporting jewlery and shiny clothes and setting.
  • Austin from Smallsville,new England, --The music video begins with P. Diddy winning a golf tournament. It then showes Mase and Diddy rapping and floating with various people dancing. The video is set in a futeristic setting with the people wearing shiny clothes.
  • Andrew from Bartlett, TnI love this song because it's got a message. old rap has meaning and new rap doesn't, its all about sex and drugs.
  • Ron from Mount Holly, NjB.I.G. died in 1997
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