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This song is about entrepreneurship, money dreams, the frustrations of working, job life, inflation being too damn high, the struggle being real, and staying in to work on your business plans because you just want change. Clean version available for educators, schools, professional events and nonprofits!
lyrics
INTRO ADLIBS
(For the hustlers...)
(For the builders...)
(Visionaries...)
(Let's go!)
I got shit to do
You know I got shit to do
I'm not comfortable
What I look like chilling with you
FIRST VERSE
Been so long since I had a real social life
I ain't really slept regular in many nights
Work balance, you mean pay a bill or hunger strike?
I'm trying to cut ties with all of these 9-5's
4-12's, 10-6, the shifts
That make a nigga blow his brains out
Or make hit lists
How many b.s. jobs I've quit, submitted to, I'm certified
In the pain of under-employed and over-qualified
Do what you have to, to do what you want
Just need to lower my costs and increase all of my revenues
But yo, really, where my C-suite at?
I want the acres and the papers and the digital racks
Can't let a nigga distract, I've learned the lesson
But it's a few that try to slick talk in codes of my profession
Be like, (you know the) mouth leaves the strongest impression
I'm like, just let me finish up this marketing section and
I got you
HOOK
I can't go tonight
(The expenses outweigh the investments)
I'm working on my business
I'm working on my business
My business plan
I'ma be up tonight
(You know the vibes, grinding till I recline)
I'm handling my business
I'm minding my business
My business plan
SECOND VERSE
They want to get an RSVP, want me to confirm?
I'm in the research phase of my consulting firm
Gotta Investopedia words, graphs, and purge
I'm trying to battle rap competitors and twerk team goals
But I give my word to be my best savage
Once I establish my market and psychographics
I'm trying to self-care with all things healing and ratchet
Once my profit and loss is something I can really manage
Now I know, real facts, this grind's unhealthy
So I need you to be complimentary
Like the goods I'll sell
When the well's dry and curve is belled
Are you going to ride with a hustler, be mental health
Equal relationship stages
To ownership over wages
Why blow it on bracelets
When we could scale up in phases
They trying to quote from a brand with a voice they lack
I'm trying to quote, build a brand, get that invoice back
HOOK
I can't go tonight
(The expenses outweigh the investments)
I'm working on my business
I'm working on my business
My business plan
I'ma be up tonight
(You know the vibes, grinding till I recline)
I'm handling my business
I'm minding my business
My business plan
BRIDGE
Scrolling on my LinkedIn
Peep my analytics and my metrics
Engagement is up
I put in the energy I put in time
I'm finna get blessed with the ROI
Trying to momentum, trying to grow budgets
Trying to own something, not owe nothing
THIRD VERSE
I'm not trying to outsource my connection
But please understand my methods
Why I stress my best ends
Cause liabilities and debt conspiring
Interest rising, best believe they keep a nigga bodied
Trying to have me in diapers, Depends chronically
I'm trying to be happy and break chains logically
Sorry not sorry, supply and demand
Know damn well I should be working on visions and plans
So I'm saying
HOOK
I can't go tonight
(The expenses outweigh the investments)
I'm working on my business
I'm working on my business
My business plan
I'ma be up tonight
(You know the vibes, grinding till I recline)
I'm handling my business
I'm minding my business
My business plan
(We going up!)
credits
released February 9, 2024
Written, arranged, and performed by: EMMA LEE M.C.
Produced by: Enrichment
Recorded and mixed by: Fred Ones at TME Pro Studios
EMMA LEE is a mold-breaker among Hip Hop artists today being a seasoned lyricist with an extensive creative
resume.
Born in Uganda & raised in Harlem, NYC her aggressive rhymes meet soft vocals, visual thoughts & boundless artistic appetite.
Creating & performing since a youth she's shared tracks/stages with the likes of Kool Keith, Nile Rodgers, DMC of Run DMC, M1 of Dead Prez & Patti Labelle....more
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