Album Name

Black On Both Sides

Artist

Mos Def

Genre

랩/힙합

Release Date

1999.01.01

Release Agency

Universal Music Group

New World Water - Mos Def
There's nothing more refreshing
that cool refreshing drink
Than a cool crisp
clean glass of water
On a warm summer's day
That cool refreshing drink
Try it with your friends
New World Water
make the tide rise high
Come in and it'll make your
house go Bye
Fools done upset the Old Man River
Made him carry slave ships
and fed him dead nigga
Now his belly full
and he about to flood somethin
So I'ma throw a rope
that ain't tied to nothin
til your crew use the H2
in wise amounts since
it's the New World Water
and every drop counts
You can laugh and take it
as a joke if you wanna
But it don't rain
for four weeks some summers
And it's about to
get real wild in the half
You be buying Evian
just to take a fuckin bath
Heads is acting wild
sippin poor puffin dank
Competin with the next man
but how your playa rank
See I ain't got time
try to be Big Hank
Fuck a bank
I need a twenty-year water tank
Cause while these knuckleheads
is out here sweatin they goods
The sun is sitting in the treetops
burnin the woods
And as the flames from the blaze
get higher and higher
They say
Don't drink the water
We need it for the fire
New York is drinkin it
New World Water
Now all of California is drinkin it
New World Water
Way up north and down
south is drinkin it
New World Water
Used to have minerals
and zinc in it
New World Water
Now they say it got lead
and stink in it
New World Water
Four carbons and monoxide
Push the water table lopside
Used to be free now it cost you a fee
Cause all things fully loaded
they roam cross the sea
Man you gotta cook with it
bathe and clean with it
That's right
When it's hot summertime
you fiend for it
Let em know
You gotta put it in the iron
you steamin with
That's right
It's what they dress wounds
and treat diseases with
Shout it out
The rich and poor
black and white got need for it
That's right
And everybody in the world
can agree with this
Let em know
Consumption promotes
health and easiness
That's right
Go too long without it
on this earth and you leavin it
Shout it out
Americans wastin it
on some leisure shit
Say word
And other nations be
desperately seekin it
Let em know
Bacteria washing up
on they beaches
Say word
Don't drink the water son
they can't wash they feet with it
Let em know
Young babies and
professional neediness
Say word
Epidemics hopppin up
off the petri dish
Let em know
Control centers try to
play it all secretive
Say word
To avoid public
panic and freakiness
Let em know
There are places
where TB is common as TV
Cause foreign-based
companies go and get greedy
The type of cats
who pollute the whole shore line
Have it purified sell it
for a dollar twenty-five
Now the world is drinkin it
Your moms wife
and baby girl is drinkin it
Up north and down
south is drinkin it
You just have to go to your sink for it
The cash registers
is goin to chink for it
Four carbons and monoxide
Got the fish lookin cockeyed
Used to be free now
it cost you a fee
Cause it's all about
gettin that cash
Money
Said it's all about gettin that cash
Money
Said it's all about gettin that cash
Money
Said it's all about gettin that cash
Money
Said it's all about gettin that cash
Money
Said it's all about gettin that cash
Money
Said it's all about gettin that cash
Money
Said it's all about gettin that cash
Money
Said it's all about gettin that cash
Money
Said it's all about gettin that cash
Money
Johny cash
Money
Roseland cash
Money
Give me cash
Money
Cold cash
Money
Johny cash
Money
Roseland cash
Money
Give me cash
Money
Cold cash
Money
Cash rules everything around me
Move