Money's Just A Touch Away Lyrics - Mack 10

featuring Gerald Levert 

[Mack 10] 

This song is dedicated 

to all the up and coming rappers singers hustlers actors 

Whatever you may be remember: 

without no struggle you get no progress 

So keep grindin keep on mashin get yours 

Chorus: Gerald Levert 

You're nothin far from comin up (keep on) 

Money's just a touch away (keep on) 

So keep on grindin don't give it up (keep on) 

There'll always be another day (keep on) 

[Mack 10] 

And now I'm sittin at the pad, teary eyed and depressed 

Starvin and sufferin from mental stress 

Now a true center to the game of beginner 

but hard to feel like a winner when you eat spreads for dinner 

Hit the streets late night in the form of star mushin 

On the 211 mission just to pay tuition 

For my kids I got to grind and develop street saavy 

Servin stress cause I just ain't got enough to cop cavi 

But I can't stop, I won't stop, til I got it made 

Either build my clientele, get a job or learn a trade 

like hip-hop, and make enough to live good forever 

So I learned to write the rhymes and get my metaphors together 

Then I joined a rap crew, with the homies on my street 

Sellin underground tapes out the local swap meet 

Gettin tighter on the mic, as I worked day to day 

So now I lay down at night, and I hear voices say, "Mack" 

Chorus 

[Mack 10] 

Now I'm new to the scene, H as in Hard, N as in Nympho 

So like EPMD, could you _Please Listen to My Demo?_ 

I left the local crew, felt like I was the man 

In popular demand and now ready for SoundScan 

So I searched for a deal with no luck I kept rappin 

Felt like it would take a miracle to make it all happen 

Marble said it was a test, "Mack don't do nuttin wrong! 

Just have faith in God and keep your hustle goin strong 

Stay hongry, keep writin, don't quit you're too close 

Remember good things come to those who want it most" 

So I never left the house, without my rap book 

Thought I found a new crew but eventually got shook 

First they said I was cool, but then started to doubt me 

Put me on the backburner and just forgot all about me 

Partna said I wasn't fresh, and sent me on my way, but you know what? 

As I was leavin, I could hear voices say, "Mack" 

Chorus 

[Mack 10] 

Now the tables turned, but I remember they used to clown me 

The hard work paid off, and luck finally found me 

So call every publication, Billboard and the editor 

and tell em Mack's being signed by dude workin on _The Predator_ 

I got the Midas touch, now everything be the bomb 

Hooked up with The Don, now made a few mill-ion 

I don't bang I write the good rhymes, you know about mines 

Man I'm the tightest MC, Ice Cube ever signed 

Now if ain't the radio, it's a video shoot 

Livin life in the limelight, with a bank full of loot 

Now my crew is solid, shook the haters and the leeches 

Runnin full court at my house with our girls on the beaches 

Plus the violence is ceased, no more bi-coastal beef 

Cause now I get down with the North South and the East 

I reminisce on hard times, seem like yesterday, but now 

Hoo Bangin' is official and I remember they used to say, "Mack" 

Chorus 

[Levert] Money's just a touch, just a simple touch 

Money's just a touch away.. 

Money's just a touch, just a simple touch 

Money's just a touch away.. 

[Mack 10] Man I knew I was gonna make it, but they didn't believe me 

YaknowhatI'msayin? Clowned me -- gon' be a rapper, what? 

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