What do you want... and need? Hard to say

*CHORUS*
Forgetting the things that you want
Versus getting the things that you need
And tell me how bad do you want it
And tell me how much of it's greed
Forgetting the things that you want
Versus getting the things that you need
And tell me how bad do you want it
And tell me how much of it's greed

*ABSTRACT RUDE*
You want wine, need water
These rhymes we offer
The kind of authors
To knock ya' out of ignorance
End of the innocence
Begin to the finishing
With the men significant
Welfare recipients
Tragic
Addicts with a bad habit
Somebody's baby's momma at the Carter in the new jack city
Oh what a pity, this again
Locked up for soliciting
Oldest profession
The men buy so it's selling
You want pork, need veggies
For your bone support
Be ready for armageddi
Hold the fort down
Go through the court trial
Get acquitted
Be committed
To the sacrifice
It's a lotta pie
Ab, get a slice

*CHORUS*
And tell me how bad you want it
And tell me how much of it's greed
Forgetting the things that you want
Versus getting the things that you need
And tell me how bad do you want it
And tell me mow much of it's greed
Forgetting the things that you want
Versus getting the things that you need

*MIKAH 9*
Right about now a nigga Drunk
Been smoking some old janky rolled
Stress blunts
I want skunk
I really want my baby momma cunt
She kick it with punks
When I know a family man what she want
Bitch made niggas
On the rag
Every month I should just punt fools like footballs
My goal is to make you look, yo
I could call some stunts
From porno industries
Or get some from in the streets
Shady heat that's meant for me
But what I want and what I need
Should be about me and my seeds
Cause sometimes I have flashbacks
Of chopping crack and weed
Moving X and LSD
Having sex with more than 3
Busting checks for 50 Gs
Catching jets and pushing keys
Vexed and connects
With the greed I possess
Take the Rolex off yo' wrist
Take the Rolodex off yo' desk
But in the long run
I'm a strong son
Those klepto-days done
My life reflects
Universal cause and effects
In every action
I'm sorry my karma ran over your dogma, loved one
Don't be upset
We can still pop a bottle
Then we can get lit up and wet
The common ground is the love we all express
Whoever got a problem with that (whoever!)
Deserves what they get (got a problem with that)
(Deserves what they get)

*CHORUS*
Forgetting the things that you want
Versus getting the things that you need
And tell me how bad do you want it
And tell me how much of it's greed
Forgetting the things that you want
Versus getting the things that you need

*ACEYALONE*
Man, I want money
I need food
I want clothes
I need housing
I want cars
I need good health
I need knowledge of self
I got knowledge of self
I want peace, but I need help
I want to do right
But I need the mic
I want wings, but they gave me a bike
I need light
I want the blacks
To know they need the facts
I want a Cadillac, but I need tracks
To make stacks
I want a million in the bank and a pound of dank
But I need to think
Cause I could sink
And get caught up in the funk stank
I want to pull rank (rank!)
But I need to be a saint
And so I need a prayer
And after that I need a drink
Cause I want to be wanted
Need to be needed
But I want to stay blunted
And need to be weeded
For my own goodness sake
I want to escape
But I need to set you straight
So tell me how bad do you want it, punk
And tell me how much of it's greed
Versus getting the things that you want
Pumpkin
Or getting the things that you need (*fading into the chorus*)
Sucker

Forgetting the things that you want
Versus getting the things that you need
And tell me how bad do you want it
And tell me how much of it's greed
Forgetting the things that you want
Versus getting the things that you need
And tell me how bad do you want it