| No talkin don’t pay the rent | 
| And sittin won’t let you style like this | 
| But money don’t make you rich | 
| But hatin won’t let you smile | 
| Yeah, the Teknology is too advanced | 
| Attach dynomite to opportunity, blow your chance | 
| Enhance the vision, Kweli tell 'em to listen | 
| Before I probably get a hundred niggas to diss 'em | 
| Yeah, and I can’t wait, sit up straight | 
| Hungry niggas eatin your plate, compete in a race | 
| Full of rats, the homie’s torso is full of tats | 
| I’mma put the rest on my back, it’s best if I, bless 'em with that | 
| Specify the facts from the fiction | 
| I gotta draw the line with the diction | 
| And I ain’t whistlin, Dixie; | 
| this is Hi-Teknology wit me | 
| You couldn’t find a finer designer to tailor fit me | 
| To be, yay a nigga Tone, Cincinnati’s own | 
| Hometown favorite like the Bearcats win the zone | 
| Strong Arm keep it runnin on like a sentence | 
| They wouldn’t know the difference when I hit 'em from a distance | 
| Clack, conventional (bullshit) nothin identical | 
| The West has evolved and Steady’s, at the pinnacle (yeah dat) | 
| Still saggin in my crispy Dickies | 
| But my gangsta’s fly, I make sho' the wrist is extra crystal-y | 
| Cock it on the side for the next telly is | 
| Ghetto nigga on Lambo’s mailin list | 
| Money don’t make you rich | 
| But it’s funny how it’ll make a snow bunny suck your dick | 
| I have a hater in the shrubs where you park your shit | 
| I had a homie blowin you up when he hit the fence | 
| To the Steady, Slick bring the gangsta shit | 
| Like the hankerchief, once you add on the Paisley print | 
| On the rights where I dang a lick | 
| But since I learned red and blue make green it’s Tek hits | 
| It’s the premier kids cast to build the pyramids | 
| A '08 Escalade’s in prepaid appearances | 
| It’s hard to even entertain a few, an invalid | 
| Lame in the brain can’t talk or remember shit | 
| I don’t blame him — the daddy ain’t around | 
| Left him lonely in the hood without good home trainin | 
| Frustrated, pissed cause probation | 
| Got him pissin in a cup without proper occupation | 
| So they — get up, get out, and get it like Goodie Mob | 
| Niggas must be crazy thinkin we won’t do the job | 
| Dookie colored droptops sob, with the feet tall | 
| Hi-Tek beats bump from Lynn Street to Crenshaw | 
| Steady means stupid stand up, start elevatin | 
| Violate and come to your final destination | 
| Mouth pacin — Pacific Ocean main land | 
| Chasin retail, re-up in rotation |