Diddy Ft The LOX, The Notorious B.I.G. & Lil’ Kim – It’s All About the Benjamins (Remix) Lyrics

From Puff Daddy and the Family’s No Way Out album, this song features most of Bad Boy’s star lyricists (no Mase). The original appeared on a random DJ Clue mixtape, making this the more popular version

The theme is similar yet somewhat the opposite of Wu-Tang’s C.R.E.A.M., which also centers around the all-importance of money. Wu focuses on the struggles of making cash and how it controls them while Bad Boy brags about the pleasures of spending it. It’s an excellent indicator of the changes hip-hop underwent from the early to the late 90’s

The main beat features a sample from Love Unlimited’s “I Did it For Love”, while Biggie rhymes over a different beat featuring a sample from The Jackson 5’s “It’s Great to be Here”.

In 2008, it was ranked number 32 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.

It’s All About the Benjamins (Remix) Lyrics by Diddy Ft The LOX, The Notorious B.I.G. & Lil’ Kim

[Produced by D-Dot (The Mad Rapper)]

[Intro: Diddy & Missy Elliott]
Uh, uh-huh, yeah
Uh, uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Uh, uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Goodfellas (Uh)

[Verse 1: Diddy]
Now, what y’all wanna do?
Wanna be ballers, shot callers, brawlers?
Who be dippin’ in the Benz with the spoilers?
On the low from the jake in the Taurus
Tryin’ to get my hands on some Grants like Horace
Yeah, livin’ the raw deal
Three course meals, spaghetti, fettuccine, and veal
But still, everything’s real in the field (Uh, yeah)
And what you can’t have now, leave in your will
But don’t knock me for tryin’ to bury
Seven zeros over in Rio de Janeiry
Ain’t nobody’s hero, but I want to be heard
On your HOT97 every day, that’s my word
Swimmin’ in women with they own condominiums (Uh-huh, yeah)
Five plus fives who drive Millenniums
It’s all about the Benjamins, what?
I get a fifty pound bag of Euk for the mutts
Five carats on my hands with the cuts
In somethin’ European chromed out with the clutch, what
[Verse 2: Jadakiss & Diddy]
I wanna hold figures, fuck bein’ a broke nigga
Drinkin’ malt liquor, drivin’ a broke Vigor
I’m with Mo’ sippers, watched by gold diggers (Uh)
Rocking Girbaud denims with gold zippers (Come on)
Lost your touch, we kept ours
Poppin’ Cristals, freakin’ the three-quarter reptiles (Hahaha)
Enormous cream, forest green Benz jeep
For my team, so while you sleep, I’ma scheme (That’s right)
You see through, that’s why nobody never gon’ believe you
You should do what we do, stack chips like Hebrews
Don’t let the melody intrigue you (Uh-uh), ’cause I leave you
I’m only here for that green paper with the eagle

[Verse 3: Sheek Louch & Diddy]
I’m strictly trying to cop those colossal-sized Picassos
And have papi flip coke outside Delgado’s (Woo)
Tienda, with cash flowing like Sosa
And a Latin chick transporting in the chocha
Stampeding over, pop Mos, never sober
Flexin’ Range Rovers, dealing weight by Minnesota (Uh)
Avoiding NARCs with camcorders and Chevy Novas (Uh-huh)
Stash in the building with this chick named Wilona (Uh-huh)
From Daytona, when I was young I wanted to bone her (Uh-huh)
But now I only hit chicks who win beauty pageants (Hahaha)
Tricking and taking me skin at the Aspens, uh (Come on)
Gangsta mental, stay poppin’ Cristal
Pack a black pistol in the Ac’ coupe that’s dark brown (Woo)
Pinky-ringin’, gondolas with the man singin’
Italian music down the river with your chick clingin’
To my bizzalls, player, you mad false
Acting hard when you as pussy as RuPaul’s
[Chorus: Diddy & Missy Elliot]
Come on, Come on, uh-huh (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)

[Post-Chorus: Diddy, Lil’ Kim & Missy Elliott]
Now, what y’all wanna do? (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Wanna be ballers, shot-callers, brawlers (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Who be dippin’ in the Benz with the spoilers (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
On the low from the jake in the Taurus (Uh, uh, what the bloodclaat?)

[Verse 4: Lil’ Kim, Diddy & The Notorious B.I.G.]
Wanna bumble with the bee, huh?
Bzz, throw a hex on the whole family (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Dressed in all black like The Omen (Say what?)
Have your friends singin’, “This is for my homie” (That’s right)
And you know me from making niggas so sick
Floss in my six with the Lex’ on the wrist
If it’s murder, you know she wrote it (Uh-huh)
German Ruger for yo’ ass, bitch, deep throat it (Come on)
Know you wanna feel the womb ’cause it’s platinum-coated
Take your pick, got a firearm you should have toted, suck a dick
All that bullshit you kick, player hatin’ from the sidelines
Get your own shit, why you ridin’ mine? (Uh-huh)
I’m a Goodfella kinda lady
Stash .380s in Mercedes, Puffy, hold me down, baby
Only female in my crew and I kick shit like a nigga do
Pull the trigger too, fuck you (Uh, uh, uh)
[Verse 5: The Notorious B.I.G. & Diddy]
I been had skills, Cristal spills
Hide bills in Brazil, about a mill’, the ice grill (That’s right)
Make it hard to figure me, liquor be kickin’ me
In my asshole (Uh), undercover, Donnie Brasco
Left my east coast girl the Bentley to twirl (Uh-huh)
My west coast shorty push the chrome 740
Rockin’ Redman and Naughty, oh, where my kitty cat?
Half a brick of yay in the bra where her titties at
And I’m livin’ that, whole life we push weight (Uh-huh)
Fuck the state pen, fuck hoes in Penn State (C’mon)
Listen close, it’s Francis, the praying mantis
Attack with the MAC my left hand spit
Right hand grip on the whip for the smooth getaway
Playa haters, get away or my lead will spray (Get away)
Squeeze off ’til I’m empty, don’t tempt me
Only to hell I send thee, all about the Benjis, what?

[Outro: Diddy & Missy Elliott]
It’s all about the Benjamins, baby
Uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Uh-huh, yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Yeah (It’s all about the Benjamins, baby)
Yeah, yeah, yeah