More songs by Reuben Vincent
More songs by 9th Wonder
Description
Producer: 9th Wonder
Mixing Engineer, Mastering Engineer: Gimel “Young Guru” Keaton
Composer, Lyricist: Reuben Vincent
Composer, Lyricist: Patrick Douthit
Lyrics and translation
Original
Yeah. Uh, uh, uh-uh, uh, uh.
Yeah.
Ay.
Gotta get it, uh, I gotta get it, get it, gotta get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Gotta get it. Uh, uh, uh. 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 where they was raised before 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 Shawn Carter.
At NCAT passing blunts, dicking down daughters, thinking to myself like, "I gotta go harder.
" Ain't nobody better than, better than I ever been. What's heaven sent just to travel through hell again?
They saying if it ain't trap, I'll never win. I couldn't give a fuck 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 till 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 they soul?
It's why I learned to stack it and lay low. It's war where I'm from, soldier boys hold Dracos.
Halle Bailey fuck around, give a boy a halo.
I was more Basquiat, couldn't do the same old shit as everybody, though. They try to make me change, though.
I'm still trying to 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.