The chorus of this song is referenced by Akon in a song featuring him and Lil' Wayne, "Sweetest Girl" by Wyclef.
The chorus of this song is referenced by Akon in a song featuring him and Lil' Wayne, "Sweetest Girl" by Wyclef. Another reference to this song follows the lines "I'm emotional (I hug the block)/Aye, I'm so emotional (I love my glock)." Referenced in such songs as "New World Water" by Mos Def and "Go Crazy" by Young Jeezy, its own music video opens with a scene of its performers gathered around a wastepaper basket on fire. Early in his life, the speaker moved "to Shaolin land" and later "started smoking woolies at sixteen," noting that "a young buck selling drugs and such who never had much" faced being "handcuffed in back of a bus, forty of us". Facing "times as ruff and tuff as leather," the speaker resolves to "kick the truth in the young black youth." For 10 points, identify this street anthem about a young man growing up in the "crime side" of New York, an early hit for the Wu-Tang Clan.
The chorus of this song is referenced by Akon in a song featuring him and Lil' Wayne, "Sweetest Girl" by Wyclef.
{Cash Rules Everything Around Me} [or {C.R.E.A.M.}]