[Verse 1]
He had to laugh
A world of garbage and you're still trash
A grip of paper money, no liquid cash
Funds wired, local fixers hired
Get that ghetto pass
Caught the kid cat-napping, that's his ass
Settin' up the tripod, he begged them to make it fast
Hit up two dope and not right, begged for banner ads
Hit the roach wondering why the high don't last
Those dogs ain't sleeping, you're living in the past
Family Circus, Punch and Judy
Dad's out late, Mom's moody
Turns out the girls were right, he did have cooties
A thousand monkeys in front a thousand G5's
These were the best of timеs
For ten years one Nеgro spit the best rhymes
Line after line, yet they clap for Salieri
Put the Chocolope with the Blue, called it Halle Berry
So I had to laugh
So I had to laugh

[Verse 2]
I had to laugh
When Victor said he got nabbed and the money was tooken
Mufuckers'll look you in the eye tryna sell a bridge in Brooklyn
But I know he kept a MAC, ain't no stranger to the booking
So I smiled, wrote it off, Goldman Sachs status
The wizard's behind the curtain and this whole thing work with magnets
Georgia Ave, universal madness
Rock like planets, guaped up
Top of the World, Ma!
Till you locked up and forgotten
Like Manuel Noriega in gen pop
Slings and arrows, outrageous fortune
It is what it is like an abortion
To each their own portion, ever smaller
All together for the chairman's great leap
Golden fleece, styling on you
125th Street, gallows humor goes a long way these days
A splendid nerve tonic for the refined primate
Washed his hands to the bone, Pontius Pilate
They get wiretapped, study how those birds migrate
So he had to laugh