More songs by Reuben Vincent
More songs by 9th Wonder
Description
Producer: 9th Wonder
Mixing Engineer: Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton
Mastering Engineer: Tony Dawsey
Composer, Lyricist: Reuben Vincent
Composer, Lyricist: Patrick Douthit
Lyrics and translation
Original
Yeah!
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.
Yeah.
Ay, gotta get it. I gotta get, get, gotta get it.
Gotta get it.
Uh, ay, Queen City raised a king.
Since the Hornets can't do it, ma, I gotta win a ring.
My parents never married, I carry the flag of a lone star, like what they was raised 'fore they bore me.
Please, don't compare me to any of my peers in this. Like Shakur, I done shed many tears for this.
I got God from my mom and the sins from my father, but I'ma break barriers like barter. I could've went to
Harvard, but see I chose a HBCU, then dropped out trying to be Sean Carter. At
NCAT passing blunts to down daughters, thinking to myself like I gotta go harder.
Ain't nobody better than, better than I ever been.
Was hesitant just to travel through hell again. They saying if it ain't trap, I'll never win.
I couldn't give a like I'm celibate, it's evident that. . . Yeah.
Hey, I gots to get paid, no church in the wild if we tryna get saved. They say. . .
Yeah.
Ay, I gots to get paid, got family to feed, ain't no time to be afraid.
Hey, ay, and I still need a lot of dough, lot to cope, being raised in survival mode.
Watching my mama take a check and pay tithes and love God, but we ain't gon' pay the bills with the Bible, though.
My religion was the mission, and if it isn't love, then I find a new edition.
The blind lead the blind 'til they find the truth is missing. But me, I was the realest, never was superstitious.
Listen, uh, what's the profit if these people gain the world and lose their soul?
That's why I learned to stack it and lay low. It's war where I'm from, soldier boys hold Dracos.
Halle Berry around, give a boy a halo.
I was more Basquiat, couldn't do the same old. is everybody, though, they try to make me change, though.
I'm still tryna put my mama in that Range Rover, staying ten toes 'cause I know how the game go.
Ay, I gots to get paid, no church in the wild if we tryna get saved. Say. . .
Yeah.
Ay, I gots to get paid, got family to feed, ain't no time to be afraid.
Say!