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Riff: Bilal – “Money Over Love”

Jun 16, 2015

Money over love/You know how much you love the finer things/Money over love/Fast cars, diamond rings/Money over love/The best things in life ain’t free/Money over love

from Money Over Love lyrics by Bilal

Two world class lyrical contortionist somersault over a Funkadelic-themed beat, one provided by soul connoisseur Adrian Younge. It’s a fun house mirror of a song, reflecting the contorted image we have about love and money or in this case the love of money — backwards living from the other side.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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