Late 808

I’ve been in a building sitting in a chair for an hour now
I’m out of it
Think I’ll get a drink
Then I finally play a beat I like
And dance uncontrollably

All my life, been grindin’ all my life
Sacrificed, hustled, paid the price
Want a slice, got to roll the dice
That’s why, all my life, I been grindin’ all my life
All my life, been grindin’ all my life
Sacrificed, hustled, paid the price
Want a slice, got to roll the dice
That’s why, all my life, I been grindin’ all my life

Collect the hundred dollar bills like a souvenir
Carbon 15 hit me, Jeezy want a zip
And Weezy gon’ buy everything except a brick
See I can run a check up, and you just run your lip
See I can run a check up, and you just run your lip
I can run a check up, and you just run your lip
See I can run a check up, and you just run your lip, uh
You ain’t runnin’ shit

Who thought that we would go this far?
Matter fact, who thought that we would live this long?

Double up
Three or four times, I ain’t tellin no lies, I just run it up
Never let a hard time humble us
Do-do-double up
I ain’t tellin’ no lies, I just (yeah)
I ain’t tellin’ no lies, I just
Five, four, three two
That’s time, I got, to you
That money, my dreams, come true
My life, in diamonds, who knew?
Who knew? Who knew?

Runnin’ out of time, runnin’ out of time, runnin’ out of time
Runnin’ out of time to make you love me
Runnin’ out of time, runnin’ out of time
To make you love me

Waiting for the break of day
Searching for something to say
Flashing lights against the sky
Giving up I close my eyes
Sitting cross-legged on the floor
Twenty five or six to four

Last time that I checked, it was five chains on my neck
It was no smut on my rep
Last time that I checked, I was sellin’ zones in the set
Make a quarter mill no sweat
Last time that I checked, I’m the street’s voice out west
Legendary self-made progress
Last time that I checked, first get the money then respect
Then the power, and the hoes come next
Last time that I checked

I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses
Can’t define how I be dropping these mockeries
Lyrically perform armed robbery
Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me
Battle-scarred Shogun, explosion when my pen hits tremendous
Ultraviolet shine blind forensics
I inspect you through the future see millennium
Killa Beez sold fifty gold, sixty platinum
Shackling the masses with drastic rap tactics
Graphic displays melt the steel like blacksmiths
Black Wu jackets, Queen Beez ease the guns in
Rumble with patrolmen, tear gas laced the function
Heads by the score take flight incite a war
Chicks hit the floor, die hard fans demand more
Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly
Proceeds to blow, swinging swords like Shinobi
Stomp grounds and pound footprints in solid rock
Wu got it locked, performing live on your hottest block

Now its a possibility, that I can come from nothing to having it all
Now its a possibility, that I ain’t gonna have it all and fall
But I stand tall
I’ve been down for so long, you really want a chance so
I done paid my dues, my dues, my dues
I got to go, up to the top

From the first time the doctor placed you in my arms
I knew I’d meet death before I’d let you meet harm
Although questions arose in my mind, would I be man enough
Against wrong, choose right and be standing up?

I’ll face it with a grin, I’m never giving in

[Instrumental]

Used to not be allowed in the building
But now we on the rooftop

Trust in me in all you do
Have the faith I have in you
Love will see us through, if only you trust in me
Why don’t you, you trust me?

The youth are starting to change
Are you starting to change, are you?
Together, together, together, together
Together, together, together
The youth are starting to change
Are you starting to change, are you?
Together, together, together, together
Together, together, together

“Mogul and they know that, logo on my floor mat”

I might pull up, leave ’em wet, rain on ’em

Dance with me
And I’ll sing to you a symphony
Won’t you kiss me?
Shut me up please
Dance with me
And I’ll sing to you
In my heart
Ohh, yeah
Dance with me
And I’ll sing to you a symphony
Won’t you kiss me?
Shut me up please
Dance with me
And I’ll sing to you a symphony
Won’t you kiss me?
Shut me up please
Dance with me
And I’ll sing to you a symphony
Won’t you kiss me?
Shut me up please
Dance with me
And I’ll sing to you a symphony
Won’t you kiss me?
Shut me up please
Dance with me
And I’ll sing to you a symphony
Won’t you kiss me?
Shut me up please
Dance with me
And I’ll sing to you a symphony
Won’t you kiss me?
Shut me up please
Dance with me
And I’ll sing to you
In my heart
Ohh, yeah
Dance with me
And I’ll sing to you a symphony
Won’t you kiss me?
Shut me up please

I been down with the coldest war
And I know where I been ’cause I bled before, yeah
How do I know if I let you stay?
How do I know if we did it your way?
You wouldn’t take my place
Put me away, I’d die lookin’ up at your face
How do I ever know? Who can I trust?
Feelings of emptiness
Only love could kill me, God bless

Isn’t it lovely, all alone
Heart made of glass, my mind of stone
Tear me to pieces, skin to bone
Hello, welcome home

The company I keep is not corporate enough
Child Rebel Soldier, you ain’t orphan enough
A rapper turned trapper can’t morph into us
But a trapper turned rapper can morph into Puff

Don’t you know too much already?
I’ll only hurt you if you let me
Call me friend, but keep me closer (Call me back)
And I’ll call you when the party’s over

Oh shit, you live in the canyon
How big is your mansion? Yeah
Fresh out of school
Now you working and focus on fashion
Pretty girl, and you let go
Got time, but you got goals
Hey baby, waste your time with me in California
Hey baby, waste your time with me in California

Zero one one one zero zero one one
Crying zeros and I’m hearing one one ones
Lifeless back slaps the surface of the pool
Pool killer, killer pool, pool killer

Kiss me

Guess you thought I was a sure shot
You never see me out on your block
How wrong
Caught your shadow at the bus stop
Bet your not ready for
What I got

With one light on in one room
I know you’re up when I get home
With one small step upon the stair
I know your look when I get there
If you were a king up there on your throne
Would you be wise enough to let me go
For this queen you think you own
Wants to be a hunter again
I want to see the world alone again
To take a chance on life again
So let me go

Keep looking through the window pane
Just trying to see through the pouring rain
It’s hearing your name, hearing your name
I really never felt quite the same
Since I’ve lost what I had to gain
No one to blame, no one to blame
Seems to me, can’t turn back the hands of time
Oh, it seems to me, can’t turn back the hands of time

When I was fifteen, sixteen, when I really started to play guitar
I definitely wanted to become a musician
It was almost impossible because, it was, the dream was so big
That I didn’t see any chance because
I was living in a little town; I was studying
And when I finally broke away from school and became a musician
I thought, “Well, now I may have a little bit of a chance”
Because all I really wanted to do is music
And not only play music, but compose music
At that time, in Germany, in ’69-’70, they had already discotheques
So, I would take my car
Would go to a discotheque, sing maybe 30 minutes
I think I had about seven, eight songs
I would partially sleep in the car
Because I didn’t want to drive home and that helped me for about
Almost two years to survive in the beginning
I wanted to do an album with the sounds of the ’50s
The sounds of the ’60s, of the ’70s
And then have a sound of the future
And I said, “Wait a second, I know the synthesizer
Why don’t I use the synthesizer which is the sound of the future?”
And I didn’t have any idea what to do
But I knew I needed a click so we put a click on the 24 track
Which then was synced to the Moog Modular
I knew that could be a sound of the future
But I didn’t realize how much the impact would be
My name is Giovanni Giorgio
But everybody calls me Giorgio

Many college students have gone to college
And gotten hooked on drugs, marijuana, and alcohol
Listen, stop trying to be somebody else
Don’t try to be someone else
Be yourself and know that that’s good enough
Don’t try to be someone else
Don’t try to be like someone else
Don’t try to act like someone else
Be yourself, be secure with yourself
Rely and trust upon your own decisions
On your own beliefs
You understand the things that I’ve taught you
Not to drink alcohol, not to use drugs
Don’t use that cocaine or marijuana
Because that stuff is highly addictive
When people become weed-heads
They become sluggish, lazy, stupid and unconcerned
Sluggish, lazy, stupid and unconcerned
That’s all marijuana does to you, okay? This is mom
Unless you’re taking it under doctor’s, um, control
Then it’s regulated
Do not smoke marijuana, do not consume alcohol
Do not get in the car with someone who is inebriated
This is mom, call me, bye

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania
Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten

They said “Doja hit so sticky,” I said, “Thank you very much”
Bent the whole world over and said, “Spank you very much”
Cheese like pizzeria, have a seat bitch, please, Ikea
From the Westside like Maria, I’m hot like grits, Madea

Haters wanna ball, let me tighten up my draw string
Wrong sport, boy, you know you soft as a lacrosse team

Maximize all the pleasure, even with all this weather
Nothing can make it better
Maximize all the pleasure
Maximize all the pleasure, even with all this weather
Nothing can make it better
Maximize all the pleasure