Supply & Demand Rap: WE GOT IT 4 CHEAP

by DORIANELECTRA on Dec 12, 2011

This song was created to enter the Supply and Demand Video Contest sponsored by Fayetteville State University's Hackley Endowment. We are students at Shimer College and Northwestern University.
Made by:
Dorian Electra & Neil Lokken
Music by:
Matt Kawahara
Special Thanks: Lynn Hong, Bryan Maddox, Robin Babb, Allison Savage, Allon Libermann, Rachel Davison.

LYRICS:

Yo. We got it 4 cheap
And we're tryin to be supplyin
So we got to compete. OH.
And we try to understand
The laws we all cant help but follow called:
SUPPLY AND DEMAND

If I'm sellin somethin
Here's what I got to know
To ensure my sales be bumpin
If we raise the price, fewer people be buyin
If we push that price down low, customers be multiplyin

It's not to simple just to sell it for cheap
You got to cover your costs
Ya tryna make ends meet
Say we were forced to keep our price way down. LOW
Our goods become more scarce become the talk of the town. OH

If the law won't let us respond in turn by raising our money PRICE
Then our lovely customers will have to pay the price in non-
monetary costs such as waitin in line

On day when you could be HUSTLIN and now you wastin yo time
So when the prices are fixed costs remain, don't fall for tricks
That extra cost don't disappear
It just shift from here to here

You got dem long long lines? Wait a sec, shorty, that ain't right

UHM. SHORTY DAT LOOK LIKE A SHORTAGE
SHORTY, SHORTY DAT LOOK LIKE A SHORTAGE

Ooo. When dat price so low
So they be rushin to da store tramplin one another to DA FLOOR uh

Ya get it? It's about supply and demand. Ya get it?

Yyeeaaaaaaaaahhhhh

Yes sir, sir yes, what about a surplus?
Yes sir, sir yes, what about a surplus?

When you got leftover GOODS on your HANDS
Cos the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded

Yo. We got it 4 cheap
And we're tryin to be supplyin
So we got to compete. OH
And we try to understand
The laws we all cant help but follow called:
SUPPLY AND DEMAND