| Money for Nothing | ||
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| Our Dancing Days | ||
| Album: | Original Soundtrack from Season 1 of Empire Empire: Music From Our Dancing Days. | |
| Released: | February 24, 2015 | |
| Sung by: | Jamal Lyon Hakeem Lyon | |
| Place: | Laviticus | |
Money for Nothing is a song performed in the Season One episode, Our Dancing Days. It is a reworking of "Money for Nothing", a 1985 song by rock band Dire Straits, to the point of being credited to original writers Mark Knopfler and Sting. It is performed by Jamal and Hakeem and is featured in the album Original Soundtrack from Season 1 of Empire and Empire: Music From Our Dancing Days.
Jamal and Hakeem perform this song at the party at Laviticus.
Lyrics
Intro: Hakeem
Consumers, silver spooners
It's nothin', we get money for it
Verse 1: Jamal
Commas and zeros, that's the way we do it
We make it work in this economy
Rollin' dinero, pockets stay polluted
Money is dirty and we don't play clean
We chasin' paper, run, run, hurry, move it
Get out the way if you ain't 'bout that green
Intensive labor, taxes are included
Ain't nothin' in this effin' world for free
Pre-Hook: Jamal
We got to install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We got to move these refrigerators
We got to move these color TVs
Verse 2: Yazz
We are the people who turn illegal to legal
We take the good, turn it evil, create more sales than the Beatles
And the lion's our logo, we the sharks in the water
Multimedia moguls, more offices than the oval
We do everything, pull up in the game to entertain
Finish it by any means necessary
We everywhere, millionaires, billionaires, visionary
Back to business, let's just spend, think it in and celebrate
Pre-Hook: Jamal
We got to install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We got to move these refrigerators
We got to move these color TVs
Hook: Hakeem (Jamal) x2
(Move that work, move that work)
Commercialize, commercialize
(Get that work, get that work)
To advertise, to advertise
(Make it work, make it work)
Look mom, I'm on TV
(Gotta make it work, make it work)
Hi mom, I'm on TV
Bridge: Jamal (Hakeem) x2
My talent's worth a fortune (500)
They know that I'm a boss
I got the ice flossin'
I'm all about my business (all about my money)
I'm all about my business
Hook: Hakeem (Jamal) x2
(Move that work, move that work)
Commercialize, commercialize
(Get that work, get that work)
To advertise, to advertise
(Make it work, make it work)
Look mom, I'm on TV
(Gotta make it work, make it work)
Hi mom, I'm on TV
Videos
EMPIRE - Money For Nothing from "Our Dancing Days"
Money For Nothing . Jussie Smollett and Yazz)
