Be Here for a While

Lyrics

[Intro: Nipsey Hussle] That's right... Yeah, look [Verse 1: Nipsey Hussle] Blue cup, black gun Paid dues, that's done Favors from me, can't ask none Black eyed the game and got passed on Me, I kept this shit super solid Came up, and nigga you acknowledge See me in my coupe, I got stupid dollars I'm a dropout but now I speak at colleges Ironic, I'm honest I get paid to speak my mind, and it's crazy to me Just pay me, fooly; if I wrote a script, it'd be a crazy movie About my life, about rolling dice About taking risks, you gotta know the price Gotta know yourself, on the coldest nights Can't turn it down, you gotta own the fight Win, lose, or draw, you could ball You could've kept it real, but nigga, you's a fraud Before you get the shit, you gotta lose it all And then you find yourself and see that you's a God And that's real shit, thousand hundred dollar bill shit From hood to the hills shit, like, "How the fuck did we build this?" Real shit, look Blue cup, black gun Paid dues, that's done Favors from me, can't ask none Came in the game then I passed up And I can't stop, won't stop I'm the type to get more guap You the type to fa sho flop I'm from Brynhurst and them dope spots Now look [Chorus: Vernardo] It's hard but it's fast, see, these haters don't care When they see you, they stop and stare (See you, they stop and stare) Rollin' on them thangs with them gold out rings Smokin' kush and switchin' lanes (Switchin' lanes) See, the only thing I think about is when the star might fall See, we won't stop until we reach the top And we gon' be there for a while [Verse 2: Nipsey Hussle] Aye, check it out, look I'm still runnin' laps, takin' fades, I still run it back Talkin' guns, I got a hundred straps And I be in your bush if you fuck wit' Fats, that's a fact I don't fuck wit' rats This boss life, I got a lust for that Pullin' up at Sak's, blow a hundred sacks in my V12 I don't fuckin' slack, not at all I gotta ball, they shot my dog Rest in peace, my nigga, Frogg Life is short, nigga, then it's gone But in the meantime we tryna get it all You should get involved, I'm really raw Before this rap shit, I really balled Alpina's, nigga, on white Lincoln's, nigga Black Beamers, nigga, they can't see us, nigga, naw Sometimes I get so offended by it Don't compare me to none of these fuckin' liars I'm fuckin' flyer, I'm fuckin' realer Play wit' me, I'll be a fuckin' killer Dropped seven tapes wit' no fuckin' filler Now Victory Lap's my fuckin' Thriller, uh If you broke, I ain't fuckin' wit' you Unless you went broke while you was fuckin' wit' me Then we bounce back 'cause it's nothing really Gon' do it big 'til they fuckin' kill me [Chorus: Vernardo] It's hard but it's fast, see, these haters don't care When they see you, they stop and stare (See you, they stop and stare) Rollin' on them thangs with them gold out rings Smokin' kush and switchin' lanes (Switchin' lanes) See, the only thing I think about is when the star might fall See, we won't stop until we reach the top And we gon' be there for a while [Interlude: Nipsey Hussle] Yeah I could remember, like, bangin' on the MPC late night Gettin' kicked outta the house because of that shit Catchin' the 108 to the Blue Line Niggas sittin' on the bridge, loadin' up they burners, sweatin' We were just kids tryna get to it Takin' losses, stayin' down Frustration Go looking back at the shit right now, it's like, it's nothin' It's gon' feel like that for you, too Hustlers [Chorus: Vernardo] It's hard but it's fast, see, these haters don't care When they see you, they stop and stare (See you, they stop and stare) Rollin' on them thangs with them gold out rings Smokin' kush and switchin' lanes (Switchin' lanes) See, the only thing I think about is when the star might fall See, we won't stop until we reach the top And we gon' be there for a while