R.A. The Rugged Man

Released: April 17, 2020

Featuring: Chuck D

Songwriter: R.A. The Rugged Man Chuck D

Producer: Mr. Green

[The Louvin Brothers - Sinner you'd better get ready Sample]
Sinner, you'd better get ready
The time's a-comin' when the sinner must die
Money

[Chorus]
Money make the globe turn
Money make the globe turn
Reach! (money)
Money make the globe turn (money)
Money make the globe turn
I get money

[Verse 1: R.A. The Rugged Man]
Power to override government by corporate elitists
The corporations write laws that government keep secret
Private prisons keep you in damn chains
While funding legislators, judges and presidential campaigns
Government propaganda appear pompous
But science is not science when theories is funded by fearmongers (money)
Warmongerin' and profitin' off of corpses is morbid
The poor get deported
The middle class get extorted
It's corporate, the criminals are those the IRS won't audit
Ponzi scheme make the cake off it, Bernie Made off it
We celebrate givin' thanks, having parades at Macy's
While we invade lands, bomb hospitals and kill babies
Mutilate human life, make hate, lie, take, rob, steal, law break, kidnap, murder, rape, for the money

[Chorus]
Money make the globe turn
Money make the globe turn
Reach! (money)
Money make the globe turn (money)
Money make the globe turn
Reach for it!

[Chuck D]
Its ain't worth the paper it's printed on
Backed by the Pentagon
Ass kickin' going on (money)
Gross National Product
Meaning war is the answer
Another missile
Duck!

[Verse 2: R.A. The Rugged Man]
Officer overseer gun kill nightstick choke hold ya
Klan hero, Margaret Sanger, population controller
Eugenicist globe-owner, You can buy shares
Operation depopulation, the Bill Gates billionaires
Speaking prejudice from tongue, where the venomous come from
And the heretics scum run, beget Genesis 1:1
The government become God, bomb mosques and burn churches
Kill for black liquid beneath the Earth's surface
DDT in the 1940s
Now it's genetically modified organisms created in laboratories
Toxic edible chemicals poisoning the nation
Cause Monsanto runs the Food and Drug Administration
Contaminate your DNA, Agent Orange inventors
Responsible for murdering 4 of my family members
I chase J.P. more 'till he's gone
Tell Wells how far I go
And keep your circus-act sideshow
Fuck the money!

[Chorus]
Money make the globe turn
Money make the globe turn
Reach! (money)
Money make the globe turn (money)
Money make the globe turn
Reach for it!

[Chuck D]
Accountants, bean counters, lawyers changed the planet
The workers, players and the artists go, "dammit"
How high you jump for this dollar?
Bust a light
It's God you trust for this paper, right?
Reach for it!

[Verse 3: R.A. The Rugged Man]
Encore when the bars from the God roar
Bombs galore
Strategic tactician soldiers in the art of war
Police with fire hoses harmin' the poor
Military designated regions in the city, part of martial law
Doctors prescribin' pills for non-existent conditions
'Cause pharmaceutical companies are in bed with the physicians
Push false diagnosis-es and drug your brains
Make Pablo Escobar's drug hustle look like chump change
No need for discipline, feed the children Adderall and Ritalin
Prescription medicine, synthetic heroin and Dexedrine
Use your kids as guinea pigs, their mind and bodies
Turn 'em into drug induced suicidal zombies
Hit like a plane in the sky when it fly in the tower
The more afraid people are the more government gain power
That's why I'm fighting that power
Like Mr Chuck Ridenhour
When I'm riding I'm arrivin' like on the island of Okinawa
Fuck the money!

[Chorus]
Money make the globe turn
Money make the globe turn
Reach! (money)
Money make the globe turn (money)
Money make the globe turn
Reach for it! (I get money)
Money make the globe turn
Money make the globe turn (I get money)
Money make the globe turn (money)
-globe turn
I get money
-globe turn
I get money

[Chuck D]
Money talks, but God left the room

R.A. Thorburn better known by his stage name R.A. the Rugged Man, is an American rapper, screenwriter, film director and film producer. He began his music career at age 12, building a reputation locally for his lyrical skills. R.A. signed to major label Jive Records at age 18, but his debut album, Night of the Bloody Apes, was never released.

Since then, he has worked with the likes of Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang Clan, Kool G Rap, and Notorious B.I.G., as well as producers Erick Sermon, Trackmasters, DJ Quik, The Alchemist, J-Zone, and Ayatollah.[citation needed] He was featured on all three of Rawkus’s Soundbombing albums, as well as the platinum-selling WWF Aggression album. After a brief stint on Capitol Records (during which he recorded another unreleased album, American Lowlife), R.A. signed with independent label Nature Sounds and released his official debut, Die, Rugged Man, Die.[4] In 2013, R.A. released his second album, Legends Never Die on Nature Sounds

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