[00:00.000] 作词 : Destin Route/Latrell Jaimz Boyd/John Welch/Benjamin Tolbert/Eddie Jones/George Kerr/Gerald Harris/Lionel Newman/Dorcas Cochran/Gerry McClelland
[00:00.009] 作曲 : Destin Route/Latrell Jaimz Boyd/John Welch/Benjamin Tolbert/Eddie Jones/George Kerr/Gerald Harris/Lionel Newman/Dorcas Cochran/Gerry McClelland
[00:00.018] Our offense is oh so, our defense dominate
[00:04.640] We got that winning combination
[00:07.754] To what? To regulate
[00:10.522] Offense is oh so (Forever)
[00:12.590] Yeah
[00:13.206]
[00:13.348] 2007, Cole dropped The Come Up
[00:15.596] I was in high school playin' corner
[00:17.268] I never dreamt of mumblin' words in front of hundreds
[00:20.178] Studyin' plays all summer
[00:22.099] I'll hit the league if my growth spurt come in, on my mom
[00:25.099] 2009, bro dropped The Warm Up
[00:27.222] I was in warm-ups playin' Weezy
[00:29.125] And Yukimi, Little Dragon, flame breathin' the weed
[00:31.733] Patrick had the studio dorm room next to me
[00:34.617] I freestyled over his beats
[00:36.308] My nigga Keys transferrеd in from Tennessee
[00:39.041] He's a rеceiver, I played DB like Aqib
[00:41.881] Snatch a nigga chain, Talib
[00:43.205] Talib Kweli, I could be lyrically, but I put on cleats
[00:46.960] Scribbled lines goin' through my mind like a paper piece
[00:49.802] While I covered three, playin' nickel, doin' safety reads, watch the flats
[00:53.528] I can rap, but I rather tackle and pedal back
[00:56.082] Get a pick when my growth spurt hit
[00:58.343] I'ma be captain, and I was around 2010, no cap
[01:01.901] I got 'Freshman Player of the Year' and figured I was on track
[01:04.813] This nigga Pat' been in my ear talkin' 'bout rhymin' on tracks
[01:07.603] So after practice we record and then we got it on wax
[01:10.472] And on campus I heard about a couple rappers from Atlanta (Earthgang!)
[01:13.539] Said them niggas was snappin', maybe we could make somethin' happen and shit
[01:17.140] I wasn't serious enough to even be curious
[01:19.367] And we lose like every game, so every day I be furious
[01:22.269] So, the spirit of a nigga had changed
[01:24.181] To the point I had to reframe and focus my skills for other things
[01:28.118] I took the steel wheel, I'm steerin' in other lanes
[01:30.883] But my fuel on low and my oil need to be changed
[01:33.832] Amongst all the other shit that's goin' in my brain
[01:36.606] My brother got out of jail, I only know him by name
[01:39.461] He did a nickel and a dime in time, probably be stayin' with my mom
[01:43.200] And dad probably get mad, actin' lame some times
[01:46.175]
[01:46.327] Uh, look
[01:47.369] The Sideline Story came out September of 2011
[01:51.219] Ib said around that time:
[01:52.609] We was huntin' for a record, under lots of pressure
[01:55.405] Just combine the leverage with a better effort
[01:57.503] You could find a sound to get us out the underground forever
[02:00.149] Maybe you can bless a little brown effervescent kid
[02:03.144] Youngest of seven from the six, eight sections
[02:05.742] Section.80 dropped, yeah, we used to play that shit to death
[02:08.596] And if I recollect correct, you tried to sign him for yourself
[02:11.427] All the while I was 'round my out of town college, wildin' out
[02:14.786] Restaurants, Destin dinin', dashin', call it dinin' out
[02:17.332] ****in' *******, 'posed to be in class, but I was hiding out
[02:20.305] My friends take a little shot, smoke a lot of ********, coolest nigga on the campus
[02:24.126] Now a nigga skippin' practices, and actin' like a rock star
[02:26.753] Going from in the dorm to in the car, leavin' the football field
[02:29.916] But **** that, we still sorry, and the problems from the home front
[02:33.176] On my home screen callin' me, I don't wanna answer
[02:36.138] My brother Carl hit me, said my granny had cancer
[02:39.023] I'm 'posed to graduate and make my way back to Atlanta
[02:41.928] No job, no money or nothin' from ballin'
[02:44.325] Because between that and school, that was really all
[02:46.865] And maybe here's the back that broke the camel with the straw
[02:49.791] I wasn't on camera with them amateurs that they saw
[02:52.610] But they said they still caught me and my dawgs stealin' boxes
[02:55.677] Like Craig on his day off
[02:56.950] Called us in the office day before we 'posed to walk, uh
[03:00.321] Called a squad car, a couple officers
[03:02.739] I know bro was finna tell, he was lookin' nauseous
[03:05.592] Now I'm sittin' in a cell, nigga double crossed us
[03:08.540] Crossed me off the list for scholarship because I lost it
[03:11.320] No more football, my red-shirt senior season, exhausted, so I'm off it
[03:14.366] And I'm right back in Atlanta with a half a gram of weed
[03:18.083] And a gold Pontiac that my granny had bought for me
[03:20.855] I was sleepin' in the back, my dad kicked me in the streets
[03:23.713] When he saw my neck tatted, then I told him I was rappin'
[03:26.673] **** school, no goin' back, he said
[03:28.235] If I can not follow his rules, just go and pack
[03:30.994] Told you he be actin' lame some times
[03:33.137]
[03:35.734] This my son, he came from these ****
[03:39.248] This negro come back from school
[03:40.995] All tatted up like the Sistine Chapel
[03:44.094] Talkin' 'bout he ain't playin' football no more
[03:46.859] Because he know he ain't goin' pro (Hey, it's a standard that you left the house)
[03:49.369] But he left on a full scholarship to go to school and get a degree
[03:52.831] Because we taught education was the number one thing
[03:56.480] Anyway
[03:57.539] He came back, determined to do what he was determined to do
[04:01.127] And I know because I know he, he is, who he is, we taught him
[04:04.943] Hey, whatever you do, put your full self into it
[04:07.489] So he did that, anyway
[04:09.737] He's back home, I ain't with that
[04:11.757] So I'm sayin' "Hey, you got to go to work"
[04:14.125] And he sayin' "Hey, this is my job, what I'm about to do"
[04:18.130] So I'm like "Hey man, some times you got to work
[04:21.058] To do what you really wanna do"
[04:22.213] We went through this whole brain wrestle
[04:25.985] But anyway, he won
[04:27.591] He decided that "Hey dad, I'm puttin' this thing, I'm doin' this
[04:31.892] This is my job" and he committed to it
[04:34.800] And hey, the rest is history
[04:35.984] I'm lookin' at him, I believe in him
[04:37.836] I know what was in him
[04:39.390] All him and his brothers and sisters
[04:42.012] They all got the same mindset
[04:45.078] Do your best, give a hundred percent or don't do it at all
[04:48.956] So, I know whatever he put his all into, it was gon' be golden
[04:54.144] Anyway
[04:54.848]
[04:55.626] Look
[04:56.185] March 10th, 2017, The Never Story dropped
[04:59.183] And I'm comin' off of tour with ****
[05:02.087] That was three years after openin' up for Ab-Soul
[05:04.885] But it's EARTHGANG's set, I only came to do a song
[05:07.709] DoeBurger used to say "Ayy bro, this lil' nigga cold
[05:10.546] Keep on doin' what you doin', you gon' make it, you 'gon blow"
[05:13.441] I ain't know that Ced had went ahead and played my shit for Cole
[05:16.386] But I knew he knew the game, and he pulled up to his show
[05:19.245] And then that's where we first met, but I ain't think of it no more
[05:22.085] 'Til Ced Brown said that I should open up for Omen on my own shit, if I wanted
[05:26.609] Only four cities, maybe we get Rob Gibbs on the phonin', I got to hone in
[05:31.471] In the game grown men uncomfortable in they own skin
[05:34.979] But all I wanted was a chance
[05:36.667] It feel like I'm in a mannequin challenge
[05:38.703] Still stance, but I'm still standin'
[05:40.697] 'Til my nigga lend a hand and I'm no longer stranded
[05:43.573] Lookin' for strengths in the streets of East Atlanta
[05:46.014] Momma said "Don't take advice, they gon' try and take advantage"
[05:49.086] I was 'bout to sign with Coach K, I ain't take the advance
[05:52.024] Cole say "Hold on, wait, bro, I got the plan
[05:54.354] So come on, damn, lil nigga, come on, shit, let's roll, ****"
[06:00.170]
[06:01.538] Shsh, yo, that's crazy
[06:07.129] That's crazy, yo JID, I remember
[06:10.510] I remember you came to the crib
[06:12.237] You remember this? After we had met
[06:15.201] And I told you and EARTHGANG to pull up
[06:17.867] To the crib in Carolina, it's the studio house
[06:20.734] I wasn't on no shit, like "Yo, I'm tryna do some Dreamville shit with y'all", nah
[06:24.019] It wasn't no talkin' no deal, I didn't even know if I wanted to sign niggas
[06:27.376] I just knew I, y'all was ****, I **** with you
[06:31.002] Just pull up, let's see what the vibe is like, let's work
[06:33.302] In my mind, if something happen, it happen
[06:35.658] If not, then cool, niggas just got a chance to link and kick it
[06:38.637] But while we was there, the thing that I noticed off rip
[06:44.945] I said, "Oh, this nigga want it, this nigga really want it"
[06:49.354] That look in your eye, nigga, I know that look
[06:53.106] I know that look too well
[06:55.776] But a lot of niggas want it
[06:58.162] The thing I noticed about you my nigga, off rip
[07:03.242] "This nigga don't just want it, he willin' to do the work that it takes to get it"
[07:09.428] And that's the difference, that's the separator
[07:12.730] That's the difference between the niggas that never get what they want
[07:16.639] And the niggas whose names ring out forever
[07:22.239] Forever