It’s not about the money for Connor Price and Big Sean.
Over the weekend, the independent artist out of Canada traveled south for a conversation with the Detroit native about the gifts and curses that come with the money they receive as they ascend in their careers. While Connor Price would be considered the newbie or newcomer in this conversation, he speaks with the poise and knowledge of someone twice his age. Floating over the production of Elkan (“Nokia”) and Hit-Boy, he raps:
Money over morals? It seems that’s where the evil grows
Don’t get me wrong, go get the money. You need a home
But when it’s all you think about, you [are] predisposed to a life where you tryna make the deepest hole.
[You] keep on getting farther, but the light never seems to show.
[I] thought the seeds would grow, but [they] decomposed.
[It feels like I’m] in the red, getting split like the sea of Moses
Greed is hopeless. We learned it from the Greeks and Romans.
Connor Price’s verse and hook set the stage for Big Sean to continue what has been an under appreciated feature run throughout the last 18 months. After announcing his entrance with his signature “Boi” adlib, the penman from the Midwest launches into classic double-time flow as he employs DTP puns and rhetorical questions to get in the swing of things before slightly countering Price’s first verse.
Don’t listen to Connor when he says it’s not about the money
‘Cause let’s be real, you know he got a lotta money
But I get it, it’s not the end goal
It’s really just the asset, the vehicle to get to where you didn’t go, and get to where you get to grow.
And money’ll magnify what you been on, so if you lame and get rich, you gon’ be—
Man, you get it, bro
“Mula” is about much more than its title lets on. At a point in time in which unemployment, economic uncertainty, and much more are leaving millions on edge, it’s easy to point to money as a solution. Looking at the lives that Price, Sean, and many others live, it sure does look like it would solve everything, and the duo does acknowledge that it does. But the reality is that the saying, “Money can’t solve all of the world’s problems,” may be cliché, but it’s true.
