{"id":2616,"date":"2025-01-14T06:12:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T06:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:44:55","slug":"ren-money-game-parts-1-2-and-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"Ren &#8211; Money Game (Parts 1, 2, and 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Money Game (Part 1)<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ren - Money Game (Official Music Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ivQwwgW4OY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strange times we&#8217;re living in<br>World can put fear in ya<br>Hierarchy parties, they make us feel inferior<br>Greed runs through the parliament interior<br>Devils walk among us, they fit the criteria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eerie theories strike fear in weary minded men<br>When we&#8217;re clearly living in dictatorships<br>Nearly blinded by illusions to choose<br>But who&#8217;s fooling who?<br>A ball chained to your shoes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m pained, it&#8217;s a crying shame<br>The pursuit of our own wealth lights a flame<br>That makes greed a game that lets the whole world burn<br>As the world turns, the whole world burns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Money was invented for trade<br>But now those bits of paper twist hearts, make slaves<br>Turns a saint into a sinner, a child into a killer<br>His finger on the trigger of a money game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, rain, rain, rain, rain<br>A storm, it comes our way<br>And those who rise through distorted lies<br>Poison in the veins<br>But we like to point the blame, blame, blame, blame<br>It&#8217;s easier to blame<br>But point the mirror at ourselves<br>We&#8217;re all part of this old money game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This old money game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This old<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Mr. President, it&#8217;s evident that everyone&#8217;s a resident<br>Of fear when they support the ideas that keep us separate<br>When they make us believe that everybody<br>Is coming to terrorise you in the streets<br>They say proudly through gritted teeth<br>&#8220;It&#8217;s my right to hate, that&#8217;s freedom of speech!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When did freedom become a reason to hate?<br>A way to justify a racial slur or insult we make<br>There&#8217;s an irony in freedom, because us in the west<br>We have pillaged and plundered and murdered like savages<br>Colonised all of the rest, that&#8217;s called hypocrisy<br>Preach a certain value that you&#8217;d never keep yourselves<br>If your country was in flames, you&#8217;d emigrate yourselves in a second<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, you spit your venom, demonising immigrants<br>When really, you&#8217;re an immigrant<br>&#8216;Cause all of us are immigrants<br>Or descended from immigrants<br>The irony is imminent, I&#8217;ll shed the light on immigrants<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">America was colonised by Britain<br>Britain, it was colonised by Rome<br>Also, colonised by the Saxons<br>They were German, by the way<br>You know how people throw shade upon the Germans<br>&#8216;Cause of history&#8217;s pain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet we make the same mistakes all again<br>Demonise a whole people, Jewish or Muslim the same and the same<br>Old situations play on repeat<br>The same old TV shows repeat<br>Yeah, we worship the bleak<br>Our opinions aren&#8217;t our own and we follow like sheep<br>There&#8217;s no left, there&#8217;s no right<br>In the middle we sleep<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rain, rain, rain, rain<br>A storm, it comes our way<br>And those who rise through distorted lies<br>Poison in the veins<br>But we like to point the blame, blame, blame, blame<br>It&#8217;s easier to blame<br>But point the mirror at ourselves<br>We&#8217;re all part of this old money game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This old money game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This old money game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Money Game (Part 2)<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ren - Money Game Part 2 (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YonS9_QJbp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strange times we&#8217;re living in, panic and hysteria<br>Poor man learn the rich man don&#8217;t care for ya<br>Narcissist mindsets spread like malaria<br>Sit back and watch the show, America!<br>Britain split through fickle shit<br>A government of hypocrites<br>These counterfeit politicians sit<br>In parliament, not adequate<br>Needlessly bleeding resources all dry<br>Turn a blind eye if it means a pay rise<br>&#8220;Oh what a shame it would be I would die&#8221;<br>If Number 10 Downing Street burned in a fire<br>Only joking, only messing, don&#8217;t be stressing<br>I&#8217;m a peaceful adolescent, there&#8217;s no need to be unpleasant Write my thesis in a rhyme scheme<br>To analyze the brain<br>While my fingers on the trigger of a money game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh Ren, Ren, Ren, Ren<br>A storm, it comes our way<br>And those who rise through distorted lies<br>Poisoning the veins<br>But we like to point the blame, blame, blame, blame<br>It&#8217;s easier to blame<br>But point the mirror at ourselves<br>We&#8217;re all part of this old money game<br>(This old money game)<br>(This old)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Money is a game and the ladder we climb<br>Turns a saint into a sinner with his finger in crime<br>I&#8217;ll break it down for you motherfuckers line by line<br>This is business economics in a nursery rhyme<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She sells seashells on a seashore<br>But the value of these shells will fall<br>Due to the laws of supply and demand<br>No one wants to buy shells &#8217;cause there&#8217;s loads on the sand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 1, you must create a sense of scarcity<br>Shells will sell much better if the people think they&#8217;re rare, you see<br>Bare with me, take as many shells as you can find and hide &#8217;em on an island stockpile &#8217;em high<br>until they&#8217;re rarer than a diamond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Step 2, you gotta make the people think that they want &#8217;em<br>Really want &#8217;em, really fuckin want &#8217;em<br>Hit &#8217;em like Bronson<br>Influencers, product placement, featured prime time entertainment<br>If you haven&#8217;t got a shell then you&#8217;re just a fucking waste man<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three, it&#8217;s monopoly, invest inside some property, start a corporation, make a logo, do it properly<br>&#8220;Shells must sell&#8221;, that will be your new philosophy<br>Swallow all your morals they&#8217;re a poor man&#8217;s quality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four, expand, expand, expand, clear forest, make land, fresh blood on hand<br>Five, why just shells? Why limit yourself? She sells seashells, sell oil as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six, guns, sell stocks, sell diamonds, sell rocks, sell water to a fish, sell the time to a clock<br>Seven, press on the gas, take your foot off the brakes, Run to be the president of the United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eight, big smile mate, big wave that&#8217;s great Now the truth is overrated, tell lies out the gate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nine, Polarize the people, controversy is the game<br>It don&#8217;t matter if they hate you if they all say your name<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten, the world is yours, step out on a stage to a round of applause<br>You&#8217;re a liar, a cheat, a devil, a whore<br>And you sell seashells on the seashore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ren, Ren, Ren, Ren<br>A storm, it comes our way<br>And those who rise through distorted lies<br>Poisoning the veins<br>But we like to point the blame, blame, blame, blame It&#8217;s easier to blame<br>But point the mirror at ourselves<br>We&#8217;re all part of this old money game<br>(This old money game)<br>(This old)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Money Game (Part 3)<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ren - Money Game Part 3 (Official Music Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nyWbun_PbTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let me tell you a story about a boy named Jimmy<br>One years old and his first words were mine, mine gimme<br>Two years old, he was walking, three years old, walking quickly<br>Four years old, he was running around the pavements of his city<br>Five years old, and his daddy told him, listen here son, you&#8217;ve got to learn to be a man<br>A man he works for what he wants<br>Six years old, and he&#8217;s reading, writing, top of the bunch<br>And when he&#8217;s seven, his progression made him student number one<br>Eight years old and he&#8217;s praised for unusual grades<br>Nine, his parents pay for private school to nurture the flame<br>10, 11, 12, 13, he ascends and ascends, his daddy tells him, son, money is the means to all ends<br>14 solving complex mathematic equations, at 15, IQ 150, still elevating<br>16 he develops complex software code that detects weaknesses in cyber security protocol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">17, and he sells his vision, keeping the share, not yet an adult<br>But he&#8217;s practically a millionaire<br>18, and his daddy tells him now you&#8217;re a man the world don&#8217;t give a damn about you<br>So take all that you can<br>19, he turns a profit, stocks and shares, invest in product<br>20, double down deposits 21, his income rockets<br>22, he learns that truth is just an obstacle to wealth<br>If you manipulate the data, then the lie will sell itself<br>23, a life of luxury Crystal and cocaine<br>24, he makes the Forbes list, they&#8217;re applauding his name<br>25, and his daddy told him, listen here, son, while you&#8217;re sitting in the palace<br>That don&#8217;t mean that you won<br>26, his business shifts, he switches business to arms<br>He&#8217;s 27, dealing nuclear shells in Iran<br>28, inside the Senate, money bought him a seat<br>He&#8217;s 29, role of counsel in the president suite<br>And now he&#8217;s 30, his daddy says, you&#8217;re losing the race<br>You&#8217;re just a servant to the king, not even in second place<br>31, a big maneuver for his daddy&#8217;s approval<br>Moving imports over borders from the exports out of Cuba<br>32, moving grams, growing kilo to tons<br>He&#8217;s 33, filling warehouses with powder and guns<br>34, turf war with nobody to stop it, blind eye from the Po po inside of his pocket<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">35, he gets a call, I&#8217;m sorry, son, but it&#8217;s your father, had a heart attack<br>I&#8217;m sorry, he&#8217;s gone, 36, getting pissed off abusing this product<br>37, eyes glazed, disposition demonic<br>38, with a prostitute, a moment of passion<br>Heating up the silver spoon and then chasing the dragon<br>39, getting reckless and hungry for power<br>Daddy&#8217;s words still driving him to kill him and devour<br>He makes a move against the cartel, but the strategy&#8217;s flawed<br>They retaliate and leave him in the hospital ward<br>A bullet buried in his vertebra, and one in his leg<br>The doctor sighs and says, I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll be walking again, fuck<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let me tell you a story about a boy named Jimmy<br>He was 40 and he cursed the words mine, mine gimme<br>41, he wasn&#8217;t walking, 42, not walking quickly, 43<br>Never running round the pavements of his city<br>44 inside a palace with a mountain of gold<br>But those riches turn to rubble when perspective evolves<br>Weighing heavy on his conscience is the value of gold, Lamborghini for a life<br>Trading money for souls, Jimmy followed the code inside the land of the free<br>Put your hand inside the cookie jar, take more than you need<br>And his example is exaggerated versions of me, and it&#8217;s a version of him<br>And it&#8217;s a version of she, and it&#8217;s a version of you<br>There&#8217;s no escaping the blame, the way we live, it&#8217;s parasitic<br>Fuck the money and fame, cut the music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn&#8217;t entertainment, this is real life, the way we live is lunacy, community it declines<br>We&#8217;re hyperpolarized, we&#8217;re always fighting and we divide<br>Truth is less important than the money that we designed?<br>Money&#8217;s an invention, politics from our invention, they all come from people&#8217;s ideas<br>Did I mention, border&#8217;s an invention<br>Law and order fuels the tension that leads to people killing each other<br>My solution? Everything is subject to change<br>We could build utopias if individuals were taught to use their brains<br>But if we teach kids in schools to always be sheep and put themselves before the herd<br>If there&#8217;s more money for meat<br>Then there&#8217;s no future I see where the humans survive<br>We&#8217;re parasites inside the Petri dish, with cannibal mines<br>Mold will grow upon the surface, then consumes &#8217;til it dies<br>And our fate could be the same without this story to the wise<br>45, Jimmy comes home out of the rain, soaking wet upon a wheelchair<br>Drinking again, he has everything he wants, he has fortune and fame<br>Such a fortunate fool with an unfortunate fate with a 45 caliber aimed at his brain<br>45, a fitting number because his age is the same<br>Here&#8217;s the words of his father, it&#8217;s such a damn shame<br>Then he presses on the trigger of a money game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1009\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ren-Gill-Photo-Samuel-Perry-Falvey.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ren-Gill-Photo-Samuel-Perry-Falvey.jpg 1009w, https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ren-Gill-Photo-Samuel-Perry-Falvey-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ren-Gill-Photo-Samuel-Perry-Falvey-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ren-Gill-Photo-Samuel-Perry-Falvey-850x563.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren Gill Photo by Samuel Perry Falvey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[899,897,898,903,894,895,901,902,896,900],"tags":[904],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative","category-genre","category-hip-hop","category-indie","category-music-music-videos","category-musician","category-pop","category-rb","category-ren-gill","category-rock","tag-ren-gill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}