Time Is Money
by Akon

Album: Stadium (2011)
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Songfacts®:

  • Senegalese-American R&B singer/rapper Akon's second single from his fourth album, Stadium, finds him talking about how he has no time to spend his money or maintaining his wealthy lifestyle. The song features rapper Big Meech and Caribbean-R&B duo Rock City.
  • The song title refers to a saying first promulgated by American statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), in which he advised young tradesmen to waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

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