Minimum Wage

Chris-cartier

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Minimum Wage by Chris Cartier

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Chris-cartier
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An introspective piece that utilizes Cartier’s dazzling wordplay to hammer home a message that has been ignored by Hip-Hop for far too long. A contrast to the egocentric materialistic themes rampant in Hip-Hop today, “Minimum Wage” offers a grounded but searing message instead. He channels his all...

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Minimum Wage Lyrics

[Verse 1]
How the fuck can I survive off $8.95?
That means I gotta work two jobs cutting out coupons
Until a nigga 95
I said, "Fuck that I want the world and everything in it! Everything in it!"
I'm talking 'bout the money, the cars and the fame
The clothes and the bitches let's get it

[Hook]
Fuck minimum wage! (Fuck!)
Fuck minimum wage! Fuck minimum wage! (Fuck!)
Fuck minimum wage! Fuck minimum wage! (Fuck!)
Fuck minimum wage! Fuck minimum wage! (Fuck!)

[Verse 2]
Yo, how you expect me to live?
Provide for myself and provide for the kids?
Pay mortgage on the crib?
Insurance on the car? Lord forgive me for my sins
I'm about to do a bid
It seems like dirty money is the only way to live
Can't you see a nigga ribs?
Cause we're starving in these streets in ain't no food in the fridge
Momma work too late to come and fix me a plate
And my dad ain't been home since 2008
Me and destiny got a date, it ain't hard to relate to the struggle
We all run a similar race
You wanna taste the good life, not living the hood life?
My flow so Death Row niggas thought a was Suge Knight
Cause I just wanna hit the club and the beamer [?]
Trynna get these hoes to show me some love
It's in my blood nigga, that's why I flex so hard
I got $2.75 on my Metro card
$50 on my debit and I maxed out my credit
But I still won't apply for no PetCo job
I know my worth nigga, why God put me on this earth nigga
Act like a bitch and imma buy you a purse nigga
The high life, life we smoking on the purp nigga
When your gift be your curse that feeling be the worst nigga
I said that feeling be the worst nigga
Yeah
You gon' get what's yours nigga, quit playin' with me
Crown's for the taking, this money what we're chasing
Yeah, what you tell them nigga?

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
Yo, I don't give a shit
I ain't working like a slave just for $136
These birds could get flipped
If worst comes to worst imma have to hit a lick
Put your books inside the whip
Moving state to state, getting cake, getting rich
I can't live my life like this
I worked through hell and back, I know that heaven exists
On earth through God's work so we could commerce
Stocks and fine art, my nigga we on first
Like the opening act, how am I supposed to react
To working at TJ Maxx, putting clothing on a rack?
With a sense of pride?
Nigga, do I need to emphasize that I'm out of this world
Like the Starship Enterprise?
So making french fries and 2-for-1 apple pies
Ain't the lifestyle a nigga tryna specialize
Line after line, bar codes, I bomb flows
For umbrellas, water boots and ponchos
Cause when you feel my rain you 'gon need scuba gear
My demeanor so Katrina, who could bear
With living life dormant?
I said fuck that I'm tryna die enormous
14 Karat gold coffin, what you living life for if you're not flossin'?
I said what you living life for if you're not flossin'?
If y'all niggas ain't about this money, y'all really ain't about shit...
They just want you to settle for less nigga. Know your worth
Yeah
What you tellem nigga?

[Hook]

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