Rich Man's World (1%)-Immortal Technique

[00:00.47]Sample [00:01.13]You get up and howl about America and democracy [00:08.90]There is no America, there is no democracy [00:13.13]We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies [00:16.52]The world is a college of corporations [00:20.91]Inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business [00:27.19]The world is a business [00:32.41]And I have chosen you to preach this evangel [00:39.04]Intro [00:39.29]For all my free market, health care-robbing [00:41.99]Stock-stealing, retirement fund ****in'-with *****s [00:45.34]**** you little credit card-scamming, jewelry-stealing [00:48.56]Crack-selling, liquor store-robbing ************s! [00:54.06]Shout out to the homies Carnegie, OG Willy Randolph Hearst, [00:57.74]Farouk, Rockefeller – the real Rockefeller [01:00.39]My main ***** Leona, pour out a little Louis the 13th [01:03.42]Scott Rothstein, Jack Abramoff, hold ya head [01:06.21]My Rothschild *****s: Let's get this money! [01:08.80]Verse 1 [01:09.00]I spend my day pairin' America overseas [01:10.95]Pension for the workers, ***** please [01:12.94]Embezzlement etiquette, private settlement [01:15.13]I'm better with confederate rhetoric [01:16.97]From my mansion in Connecticut [01:18.56]Foreclose, evict hoes out of tenement [01:20.21]I twist words like a speech impediment [01:22.04]I hope you got good credit, ***** [01:23.70]If not, better get a new job with benefits [01:25.75]While I play golf with *****s I get cheddar with [01:27.68]New money buys brand new carats [01:29.47]My old money bought your great grandparents [01:31.37]You got grills in your mouth, I ain't mad at ya [01:33.22]I own every goldmine in South Africa [01:35.20]Thanks, baby, you made me a billion [01:36.94]Plus I own a building [01:37.89]For each one of my children's children; that's the **** [01:40.49]Snort coke in the whip, Miss USA suckin' my **** [01:42.78]Yeah, what! **** the law, ‘cause real jail is for suckas [01:46.57]I go to country club prison, you dumb ************s [01:50.31](I am the 1 percent, ****in' *****!) [01:53.35]Hook [01:53.84]You know my CEO, corporate steeze, please [01:57.22]Overthrow governments overseas in a breeze [02:00.86]Politicians in my pockets for a few hundred G's [02:04.40]So if I'm ever in court, my assets'll never freeze [02:08.69]Verse 2 [02:08.99]I got a job and a house and a bank account [02:10.75]When I'm out, I doubt that's something you can say [02:12.49]And if not then I'll fake death like Kenneth Lay [02:14.63]Make money everyday the world burns on its axis [02:16.62]While y'all strugglin' to pay taxes [02:18.11]I'm gettin' my money the fastest [02:19.85]Memos and faxes, shredded up documents [02:21.76]Slush funds through the corrupt continents [02:23.65]But they don't want me indicted [02:25.45]‘Cause they don't want my dirty laundry aired when I fight it [02:27.29]Don't get my lawyers excited [02:28.68]‘Cause what good is a law if you can't rewrite it? [02:31.02]I got CIA traitors, dictators [02:33.31]So **** y'all whistleblowers and haters! [02:35.31](Sheeeiiitt!) I'll invest money from al-Qaeda [02:40.20]In the bank 9/11 widows go to later [02:42.19]Capitalism's who I pray to, **** the state of the world [02:46.13]Money talks, so what the **** I need to say to your girl? [02:50.06](I don't pay them to ****, I pay them to leave!) [02:53.35]Hook 2 [02:53.60]You know my CEO, corporate steeze, greed [02:56.85]I treat countries like the IMF, down on your knees [03:01.33]Real gangstas run the world, **** what you believe [03:04.92]I'll cut down a forest while you *****s burnin' some trees [03:08.60]I'll get your family murdered for a couple of G's [03:12.38]‘Cause your working class money ain't ****in' with me [03:15.98]You think rappers are rich ‘cause of songs you heard? [03:19.31]My labels make the money and haven't rapped a ****in' word [03:23.05]Verse 3 [03:23.35]Yacht in the ocean, coastin' with the sails out [03:25.60]Hey, America, thanks for the bailouts [03:26.99]I made off with the Banco Ambrosiano [03:29.19]Got away scott-free like El Vaticano [03:31.03]Activists act a *****, get mad at me [03:32.72]‘Cause of my tax-free charity [03:34.26]80 percent to the staff and company [03:36.40]And 20 percent to the homeless and hungry [03:38.25]The country gotta pay the Fed Reserve [03:39.94]Kick back to the banksters—haven't you learned? [03:41.74]You protest cops or patrols on the street [03:43.63]But I bought city hall, so I own the police [03:45.42]Email, Facebook, and the **** you tweet [03:47.32]All the phone companies, so I heard you speak [03:49.06]And my suggestion is your correction [03:51.11]No elections, *** with no affection [03:53.05]No invention will benefit the world of man [03:54.64]Will exist 'til I've got the money in my hand [03:56.48]World Bank interest rate damn rape on the spot [04:00.02]But I'm a gangsta, you gon' take my money, like it or not, ***** [04:04.45](I got your country in my pocket, ************!) [04:08.19]Hook 3 [04:08.39]You know my CEO, masonic steeze, cheese [04:11.73]Only little people pay all these taxes and fees [04:15.87]Since you were born, we've controlled what you watch and you read [04:19.46]And pretty soon we're gonna own the ****in' air that you breathe [04:23.24]I take what I want, ******, I don't have to say please [04:26.97]I convince you that it's good for you, take it and leave [04:30.81]You think presidents are a face of a nation? [04:33.60]I put 'em all where they are, end of the conversation