| Ells, cue the sample
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| Don’t rush it nigga, just sing that shit
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| I don’t wanna hear that bullshit
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| Jag gon' pull up at the drums, on the bass line whatever
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| Yeah, tell Translee pull up like around like, like nine o’clock
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| Yeah, yeah
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| Yeah, check, didn’t I grow up?
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| Didn’t I put the pen down and gave y’all the notebook like Noah?
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| Didn’t I show up with my tank on empty?
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| Waited to blow up, look at the way y’all envy shit
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| Didn’t I help everybody I had around me?
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| Man in the mirror, kept lookin' for him but hadn’t found me
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| Was drowning but didn’t I learn to swim? |
| I listened to my pops
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| Taught my son what I learned from him, it worked for him
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| And didn’t I listen to Aquemini?
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| I skipped Big Boi verse just to get to Andre
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| Then later realized, I should’ve let the whole song play
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| Didn’t I hustle on the road all day? |
| You was at home always
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| Didn’t I drop so fast? |
| Didn’t I record?
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| All the way turnt up for Roscoe Dash
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| Didn’t I have to say it like that?
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| Didn’t I borrow 10 thou' from H and paid it right back?
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| Myself was down and out but he helped without a doubt
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| And I was that much short and it helped me buy a house, ugh
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| Didn’t I hang on? |
| Didn’t I have Jacquees, John John Da Don, and Migos on the
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| same song?
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| And 21 others, yeah I did did it
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| Didn’t I kill Sway In The Morning for 6 minutes?
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| Didn’t I do a song with Premier like—
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| Didn’t I? |
| Yeah, I did, ugh, I did, yeah, I did
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| Yo Sy this remind me of Mariachi days
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| If you know, you know (Yeah)
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| Didn’t I give 'em «Lost in the Sauce» but they still lost?
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| Gave the game free, I already had squared the cost
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| Didn’t I make sign me while I was working?
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| I was rappin' truth while Atlanta was swag surfin'
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| Didn’t I give you culture before it was for the culture
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| Before you could see the vultures, I mean
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| Someone gotta die right? |
| To see the vultures
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| That mean culture dead
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| So go ahead and put your boy face up on the sculpture head
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| Didn’t I give you black? |
| Didn’t I give you facts? |
| (Ugh)
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| Didn’t I never slip especially on wax? |
| (Nope)
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| Didn’t I make T.I.P double back to 'Bama after Dough died
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| Just keepin' the spotlight on that road tied (Grandma)
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| I got 'em squintin' they eyes, you see my soul shine
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| In this over 10 years, you know the whole 9
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| Ain’t gotta dig it for long, they see I’m goldmine
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| I see them try the school thing till it was pole time
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| I see them try the pole thing till it was fuck time
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| And then I show up on time like black lunch time
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| Huh? |
| Didn’t I? |
| I did
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| You know Sy I got you anytime you hit me, bro, like you
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| You know?
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| respect his sparring partner, you feel me?
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| Yeah, didn’t I? |
| I could’ve sworn I had reached—
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| —higher than what any critic of me would think
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| Elephant in the room nobody wants to see
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| Hate to say it’s me but it’s me
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| I can’t help I’m top five of all time
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| Oh my fault, I gotta die before I get my shine
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| Blog sites got the rough draft saved
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| «Alleged ghostwriter Quentin Miller passed away»
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| «L, L, Q. M» tweets, interviews on how dope I used to be
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| I see that’s how they want me going out
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| But fuck what they talkin' about, I know I’ll figure it out
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| Focus on whats within, no lookin' out
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| Real recognize real, I know the vouch
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| Get your ass out the house
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| You got another 24, make it count (Haha, aight)
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| Didn’t I? |
| I did |