God Nah Sleep [Rise And Fall Story]

[00:18.86] Make me tell you about him, Tim, one time kingpin
[00:21.68] Bigger than filthy rich, him did sink in
[00:24.24] Bag of sin ting, champagne bling bling
[00:26.48] Kanye and bubbly, the whole crew drinking
[00:29.12] Yeah! Big dots on the coke game
[00:31.15] Motorcade, him and him crew Benz inna boat lane
[00:33.76] On top of the world, a that him yacht and him boat name
[00:35.81] Him girl weh him buy out, she stick with the coach game
[00:38.35] Private jet, him and her fly 'round the world
[00:40.45] She get pregnant and bring forth a boy and a girl
[00:42.73] Him know the more drugs him sell, the more people live less
[00:45.48] But him coulda give less
[00:46.94] Him done have it, seh the same way him buy out him girl and him friend
[00:50.09] Dem a the same way him coulda buy forgiveness
[00:52.52] Fast forward a few years run off
[00:54.64] 'Nough needle jook, 'nough crack pipe bun off
[00:57.08] Him done have it, seh the money can't done off
[00:59.45] Every other week a new shipment come off
[01:01.93] Him best friend did a move weight, so him shell him out
[01:04.43] But him never know seh prior to that, him sell him out
[01:06.98] So him make a one flight, couple key wrapped tight
[01:09.35] When him land, the dog dem sniff and smell him out
[01:11.75] Now him inna cell a meditate, a look 'pon life
[01:14.07] Zion tell him it no good and him a look 'pon life
[01:16.62] Him gyal never visit him, she never show up
[01:18.71] She find another dad, she the dad's took five wife
[01:21.42] She can't help it, she get hooked 'pon the life
[01:23.94] The son get big and get hooked 'pon the pipe
[01:26.26] The daughter a sell it, man a jook out she tribe
[01:28.72] So all who a pree fi go look 'pon the hype
[01:30.82] 'Memba God nah sleep!
[01:36.13] Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
[01:43.01] Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
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[01:52.87] God nah sleep!
[01:54.32] Hey, make we rewind 'bout 1999
[01:57.33] Brand new artist did a try fi rhyme
[01:59.73] Everything did connect, every song line for line
[02:02.18] But nobody never know him, him mic did on sign
[02:04.55] One time, every show, every likkle interview
[02:07.59] Every likkle thing him reach 'pon time
[02:09.34] From there, everywhere, him and him crew from him era
[02:12.89] Word a bleach 'pon crime
[02:14.57] Some funny thing can reach mankind
[02:16.69] Artist find the song weh top the charts and rock the dance
[02:19.98] That's how the slattness starts
[02:21.20] Him have money inna kind, money elastic off
[02:23.73] Start spend weekends at some top resorts
[02:26.17] Hot girls with the top slip off
[02:27.96] Hot cars with the top slip off
[02:29.76] People a say, "That's the boss"
[02:31.51] Boss bigger than mosquitoes
[02:33.34] Now him think turn up start, get shows ten a one
[02:35.72] Fly hard, dem a ask weh him get him feather from
[02:38.18] Get high 'pon a beat, seh him a the forever one
[02:40.42] Lock up inna hotel suite with three girls
[02:42.96] When him fi do Charlie Rose and David Letterman
[02:45.58] Have it seh him bigger than all the veterans
[02:47.73] Full of bare yes man weh tell him him never wrong
[02:50.09] But dem never deh deh when him couldn't find another song
[02:52.85] Moving along, him coulda buy house bigger than Neverland
[02:56.36] But him never plan fi the future
[02:58.21] Now him deh a road a beg a grad
[02:59.68] Now him back to square one, hitch up
[03:01.27] Inna him bredda one room apartment
[03:03.29] A reminisce 'pon the past tense
[03:05.01] The hot girls and the flossings
[03:06.60] Taxman run in, repossess all him fast Benz
[03:09.02] New artist buss and take over the flossings
[03:11.59] All by himself 'cause him hype 'pon him past friends
[03:13.96] All who a hype 'pon a gwan like dem nah have sense
[03:16.22] 'Memba seh God nah sleep!
[03:22.63] Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
[03:28.75] Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
[03:38.40] God nah sleep!
[03:39.61] Hey, warn everybody, one and all
[03:45.34] Careful, careful of the rise and fall
[03:49.50] Smoke clear, make sure you stand tall
[03:49.54] Can't run before you can crawl
[03:49.62] Yo, warn dem already, one and all
[03:52.77] Careful, careful of the rise and fall
[03:55.41] Smoke clear, make sure you stand tall
[03:58.73] Wagwan, Tim Tim?
[04:00.02] Yo, mi deh ya, star
[04:01.83] Mi a tell you say mi messed up, King, oh
[04:04.71] Inna sah hell for real, you no see?
[04:07.64] Yo, mi can't even get fi hear from all mi youth dem
[04:10.78] What the youth dem a gwan with?
[04:12.00] You know say Martin Coke and Kim Town stripper
[04:14.98] Cha, no!
[04:15.38] That's what it deh
[04:16.35] So what happen to dem mother?
[04:17.35] Deh know say my youth a run it off, you know
[04:19.59] My youth used to drive the pink arm
[04:21.34] You mean the boy Joe Flossy Floss?
[04:23.22] Yeah, that's the youth deh
[04:23.99] So me bust dem likkle boy dem, man
[04:26.05] Know that!
[04:27.02] So alright, man, God nah sleep
[04:29.52] So him say go on a road
[04:31.34] Martin still a run the place now
[04:33.39] Run the place, right now him deh 'pon him base
[04:36.24] Lie!
[04:36.79] Me fi tell you
[04:38.44] Warn everybody, one and all
[04:40.84] Careful, careful of the rise and fall
[04:43.49] Smoke clear, make sure you stand tall
[04:45.90] Can't run before you can crawl
[04:48.05] Warn dem already, one and all
[04:50.44] Careful, careful of the rise and fall
[04:53.01] Smoke clear, make sure you stand tall
[04:55.23] God nah sleep!
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