The Long Way

[00:06.78] Tech Nina, lets get it
[00:09.53] Mama told me get it and I did
[00:12.10] Make a beautiful livin' for my kids
[00:14.32] Man, I'm really in love with my gig
[00:15.83] Wasn't always known I couldn't take the throne 'till I raced for home and I slid
[00:19.38] For my labels flown where I lived
[00:21.57] But the Yates was growin' in my biz
[00:23.25] And I couldn't even afford Reebok's
[00:25.19] It was Payless shoes and holy socks
[00:27.03] Then I started to earn G-knots, screamin' F-T-I on TV spots
[00:30.47] Livin' the lovely life we chose
[00:32.56] Still I'm livin' it by street codes
[00:34.45] Pain and poverty put these flows in Beast Mode
[00:37.33] Here we go
[00:38.66] The road to my success from here was not a block away
[00:41.94] On the coast they told me I'ma part with Travis, not today
[00:45.90] We just wanted what's hot to play
[00:47.96] But they gave me no slot to slay
[00:49.77] Even though I'm not Lecrae, every day Tecca Nina would drop to pray
[00:53.11] On my knees in a cot
[00:54.78] There was multiple beds in my spot
[00:56.55] So let the champagne pop, everybody feelin' my gang, gang lots
[01:00.11] Took a lot of hard work to get guap, when you comin' from a scarred turf, could be stopped
[01:03.83] From the hurtful dirt to the top
[01:05.71] Yeah we gonna celebrate today cause we got
[01:07.57] Let the song play (We got it)
[01:10.09] 'Cause we done came a long way (We got it)
[01:14.09] They know we get that grown pay (We got it)
[01:17.80] Now they mess with me the long way (We got it)
[01:21.32] The long way
[01:22.63] Let the song play (We got it)
[01:25.28] 'Cause we done came a long way (We got it)
[01:28.85] They know we get that grown pay (We got it)
[01:32.94] Now they mess with me the long way (We got it)
[01:36.10] The long way
[01:38.19] Too big and too ugly, would you ever love me?
[01:41.02] Every city we visit, we get it, but people they look at us funny
[01:44.78] I feel like I'm way too fat, but what I'm packin' is making them kitties get after 'em
[01:49.75] They hearing me flippin' and rip the back up out the track, then they trackin' a pack of 'em
[01:52.82] Applause, applause, now we sell it enough to get our house and our cars up
[01:56.11] Gotta get them bars up to be part of the upper echelon and hit the stars up
[01:59.72] And we did it
[02:01.09] Me and Nina stay committed to our art, we always doin' our part
[02:03.97] We get it
[02:05.55] And we knew we gettin' the cheese or we siezin' our G's up, Jesus
[02:07.44] Only breaking from making 'em rock
[02:09.31] The pushin' manuever been making the block
[02:10.85] Indusin', I'm cool when I'm oozin'
[02:12.40] I'm cruisin' the planet, they think I'm faking a lot
[02:14.18] I gotta get to the money, gotta get to the money, and they think I'm making a lot
[02:18.06] I'm keepin' a millimeter pilly under the tummy for dummies, if they wanna plot
[02:21.38] New money, I ain't trying to save, cause I just made it
[02:24.84] Look at my royalty state, thank God for the ones who gave it
[02:29.39] Lots of props for the ones who made it
[02:31.32] Cause this road ain't paved
[02:33.05] Sippin' till I'm elevated
[02:34.67] We made it, so we gon'
[02:36.42] Let the song play (We got it)
[02:39.35] 'Cause we done came a long way (We got it)
[02:42.75] They know we get that grown pay (We got it)
[02:46.33] Now they mess with me the long way (We got it)
[02:49.88] The long way
[02:50.94] Let the song play (We got it)
[02:53.89] 'Cause we done came a long way (We got it)
[02:57.42] They know we get that grown pay (We got it)
[03:01.14] Now they mess with me the long way (We got it)
[03:04.78] The long way
[03:06.15] Yeah, we started this Strange Music in Trav's basement
[03:10.13] Now we gonna have our fifth Strange building because we had patience
[03:13.93] And I got all these mass payments with a mad cadence
[03:17.28] Kill it when I rip it up, I'm makin' 'em listen, not pickin' me up, and I never have a cash craving
[03:21.05] We appreciate this, so we create hits
[03:24.85] See me lay this, inebriated
[03:26.67] And we be faded, indeed we stay lit
[03:28.72] From the oddest, to people listen, and look at me Godish
[03:31.61] Not a time for Nina to be modest
[03:33.51] People celebrate with me 'cause we got it
[03:35.44] Let the song play (We got it)
[03:38.46] 'Cause we done came a long way (We got it)
[03:41.72] They know we get that grown pay (We got it)
[03:45.42] Now they mess with me the long way (We got it)
[03:48.83] The long way
[03:50.01] Let the song play (We got it)
[03:53.07] 'Cause we done came a long way (We got it)
[03:56.92] They know we get that grown pay (We got it)
[04:00.23] Now they mess with me the long way (We got it)
[04:03.53] The long way
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