It Doesn’t Matter

[the rock]
Yo this is the rock kicking it with the refugee camp
And youre bout to smell what the rock is cooking

[wyclef jean](the rock)
Yo this is strictly a club record
Dedicated to everybody who used to stand outside in the cold
When the lfex was spinning at the red zone
Putting it down
And the tired bouncers would not let me in
Know what Im saying?

Yo, yo, yo, yo
I got fifty bentleys in the west indies
(it doesnt matter)
I got a pocket full of cheese and a garden full of trees
(it doesnt matter)
I just won the bingo bought a crib in rio
(it doesnt matter)
Cause if you aint sharing, people aint caring
Come up in the hood and take everything youre wearing

Back in the days it was all about the clubs
And the so-called thugs used to dance the break for love
The girls, they wouldnt say hey!
Unless you bought em champagne like it was their birthday
Me I used to hustle my way in
Im on the guest list plus five!
Whos performing tonight?
He said shabba
Mister lover that be needy and selective
(someone jump the rocks up in here)
Disrespect emcees and catch a smack in your left ear
Light up like vegas when its time to gamble
Girls scream for me like I was part of the beatles
But Im not honey
But I could be your paul mccartney
An ebony or ivory into my jacuzzi
Foundation like cool hirth as dj red alert go bizzerk
The needle aint skip the record jerked
Cause yall jumpin too hard
(hey! hey! hey! hey! hey!)

[wyclef](the rock)
I got fifty bentleys in the west indies
(it doesnt matter)
I got a pocket full of cheese and a garden full of trees
(it doesnt matter)
What? I just won the bingo bought a crib in rio
(it doesnt matter)
Yo cause if you aint sharing, people aint caring
Come up in the hood and take everything youre wearing
Yo rock I just bought a fresh bentley
(it doesnt matter you just bought a fresh bentley)

[wyclef](melky sedeck)
How many of yall ever been to a barbecue
And you always got an uncle juan that wanna show you
How all the dances go
And they start it off like this
Electric side on the dance floor
Freaky-deaky like studio 54
Girls!! until the irs raids it
Drug money get converted into music
The dope man becomes an entertainer
Leave that crack alone!
I told the customers
Im into bigger and better things mr. fiend
You want a hit?
Give me a guitar and a drum machine
And the crowd will scream loud when the bass thump
I can smell it in the air, the smell is funk
Excuse me I gotta cough
Girl you in so much ice you could freeze new york
Youre man must really love you
What does he do for a living?
(he works on wall street hes only home two nights a week)
Thats when she said a little too much conversation
I think she want to indulge in lyrical masturbation
So I proceeded with the compensation, I said
Can I offer you a glass of merrill mrs. no name?
(lets get it straight huh, my names veronica)
She had the ass the size of south america
She said aint you that kid that sing guantanamera
Way before ricky martin started livin la vida loca
What hood you come from?
I was raised in brooklyn, but did my studies in jerusalem
The new jerusalem yeah thats short for new jersey
Checked my watch it was a quarter to three
Slid to her crib when we opened the door
Her man was on the bottle waiting for her with the 44

[wyclef](the rock)
Now what it look like, it aint really that
(it doesnt matter)
So he cocked the gat at my top hat
(it doesnt matter)
Are you crazy? you was married!
(it doesnt matter)
Cause if you aint sharing, people aint caring
Come up in your hood and take everything youre wearing

Yeah thats when shorty walked up to her man
And she said I gotta go I cant be here no more
And she said this

[melky sedeck]
Take me home, to the place
I belong at the refugee camp
And the booga basement
Thats where I live, oh

Come on
Yo rock I sold like seventeen million records
(it doesnt matter how many records youve sold)
Alright Im with, yo check it out
You wanna go get diamond rings
(it doesnt matter if the rock wants to go get diamond rings or not)
Man listen, listen
I just got two new grammys man
(it doesnt matter about your grammys)

It doesnt matter