Slammin' Bentley doors
like we invented doors
Twenty years ago we drove
Bentley Azures
We drinkin' Cristal in, yeah
Kept the trey on me like
Chris Paulin'
Drinkin' Ace of Spade like it's codeine now
Tryna put a million on the whole team now
Push through the pain so
we can see new life
So all the ladies havin' ba bies,
see a sacrifice
Mama had four kids, but she's a lesbian
Had to pretend so long
that she's a thespian
Had to hide in the closet,
so she medicate
So ciety shame and the pain
was too much to take
Cried tears of joy when you fell in love
Don't matter to me if it's a him or her
I just wanna see you smile
through all the hate
Marie Antoinette, baby, let 'em eat cake
as draft picks, my name did not get called
Bet before I go, I put a billion on the board
Hall of Fame Hov, I did it all without a pen
Y'all knew that was comin',
I had to remind y'all again, huh?
Flyin' paper planes
through the projects
Now the whole project's on my jet
Now you see the real in the front row
In every one of y'all
televised shows
Super facts
Niggas switched sides, traded pride,
we don't do all that
A loss ain't a loss, it's a lesson
Appreciate the pain, it's a blessin'
Bad times turn
my aesthetics
I know you often heard me
wax poetic
'Bout bein' back in the Lexus
But trust me, that was nothin'
A nigga up in the hundreds of millions
I have no ceilings, ah, this that feelin',
I'm that boy
Anita Baker's "You Bring Me Joy"
Slappin' out of the toy,
the separation is clear
In my rear- view mirror, objects
is further than they appear
Oh yeah, I was born with a pair
Playin' for high stakes
Norman Cake,
he looked up and out of the Lear
How niggas can't relate?
Fuck a slice of the apple pie,
want my own cake
Chargin' my own fate
Re spect Jimmy Iovine
But he gotta re spect the Elo
him as a whole new regime
And niggas playin' for power, huh
So our music is ours
Niggas only own houses
Ours was, "Fuck you, pay me"
Now it's, "Fuck payin' me,
I pay you
Put the rest away for Blue"
That blood money, I giggle at it
Can't even support my
missus' habit
Jewelry shoppin' in Paris
All y'all jewelers should be embarrassed,
huh
Blood diamonds drippin', we cute
I still ain't trippin', that's life,
winners and losers, huh
Drug dealers and abuser
s, America like me ruthless
My therapist said I relapsed
I said, "Prehaps I Freudian
slipped in European whips"
God sent me to break the chain
I'm the true and livin'
God in the flesh,
the rest of these niggas is vain
A stain on the white suit,
inferior IQ
Niggas'll rip your shit off
TIDAL just to spite you
Ahhhh, what did I do?
'Cept try to free you
Niggas'll love you but hate you 'cause
they can't be you
Dump 'em all in the bayou, uh
Everybody wave bye to the guy
you thought you can lie to
This was meant to be a haiku, huh
But my story's too wide
to fit inside the line
And too old, these that drugs
Heroin flow, I spaz on the stove
This is Hov, no flex zone,
nigga, who lied to you?
Look, you a pedestrian
Don't ever question
the security I provided you
Oh y'all thought I was washed?
I'm at the cleaners
Launderin' dirty money like
the teamsters, huh
Shout out to Hoffa back home,
he in the church
When I heard you got
booked, that shit hurt
Fear for you, bro,
we know the system don't work
Take a young nigga freedom
over some dirt
Yet it's legal in Colorado
Yeah, we deny
Black entrepreneurs,
free enterprise
That's why it's a black market,
that's why it's called the trap
That's why it's called the project
'cause it's exactly that
All these people was gon' kill me,
heh
'Cause the more I reveal me,
the more they 'fraid of the real me
Welcome back Carter, smile
Living in the shadow
Can you imagine what kind
of life it is to live?
In the shadows people see
you as happy and free
Because that's what
you want them to see
Living two lives, happy, but not free
You live in the shadows for fear of someone hurting
your family or the person you love
The world is changing and they
say it's time to be free
But you live with the fear
of just being me
Living in the shadow feels
like the safe place to be
No harm for them, no harm for me
But life is short, and it's time to be free
Love who you love,
because life isn't guaranteed
Smile
