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Big Sean feat. Royce da 5′9″ Kendrick Lamar & James Fauntleroy Lyrics

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Introduction

I'm from a big city
I come from a large urban area.

Tryna make a living
Striving to earn a livelihood.

Come to my hood
Visit my neighborhood.

Everybody get it
Anyone can come here and obtain what they seek.

And for that paper all the wrong things sound right
People will do anything for money, making immoral acts seem justifiable.

Where I'm from they push a hundred keys and it sound like
In my area, they sell many drugs, particularly cocaine. It's as if every sound signifies a drug deal.

Young niggas gettin' money, young niggas gettin' money
Many young people are making money selling drugs.

Just a bittersweet symphony
This is a combination of good and bad situations, creating a bittersweet experience.

I play these keys, handle dope Barry Manilow
I'm selling cocaine; it's as if I'm playing piano keys. My clientele includes a lot of people, similar to how Barry Manilow's music is renowned.

The game a bitch but at times she sweet as cantaloupe
The drug dealing business can be rough, but it has some sweet moments too.

Hit the road, key of coke in the manifold
We take cocaine in the car's manifold and drive it to our intended destination.

Triple beam dreams with a trunk full of scattered clothes
We dream about making enough money to be able to afford a triple beam balance. We also store our clothes haphazardly in the car's trunk.

Japanese denim, down south numbers
I wear Japanese denim jeans while dealing drugs from the southern United States.

Hit it once trust it'll make a fat fiend stumble
Our drugs are so potent that one hit is enough to make even a heavy drug user fall.

Do the speed limit, all gold shoes
We drive at the legal speed, and I wear shoes made from a considerable amount of gold to display my wealth.

Call 'em penny loafers, they a pretty penny too
My loafers are expensive, and despite the nickname 'penny,' they cost a lot.

I'm tipping strippers but I call it penny pinchin'
I leave tips for the strippers, but I act as though it's a small payment.

She told me shit but I could get her titties lifted
A woman has shared her worries with me, but I could offer her a chance of breast implant surgery.

My new crib got its own city limit
My new home is so vast that it's like it's a city, a private place within a city's limits.

Motherfucker got his own city in it
The home belongs to me, and I consider it my kingdom.

Blue marble on the floor Where the salt water
The floor has blue marble tiles, symbolizing the ocean.

I'm the boss this player holes like a golf course
I have power and influence over people, much like how a golf course's owner can do pretty much whatever they want.

(Young niggas gettin' money, young niggas gettin' money) Just a bittersweet symphony
Repetition of earlier line

One hundred keys One hundred please
We're selling hundreds of keys of cocaine.

My gesundheit could make a whole city sneeze
If I sneeze, it could travel so far as to reach a whole city. This is a metaphor indicative of my power and influence.

Walk the mud jungle where they grinded out the leaves
I walked through a muddy place where people have harvested leaves for drug processing.

So they swarm to my honeycomb, hide out for the bees
People come to me to get products, and they will hide at my location like bees swarm around a beekeeper's hive.

You know what this sounds like Money countin' sound bytes
The sound of money being counted sounds like a certain number of bytes on a computer.

Machine gun fire Name ringin' through like the town like
We are doing so well that gunshots are the only sound, and everyone knows our name.

Church bells ringin' Know where he was found like?
Gunshots sound like church bells in our area, and everyone knows the location people have been shot.

Colombian necktie over hospital gown, right
We are killers, and our target's nece is slit to create a gruesome display, similar to how a Colombian ties their necktie. Afterwards, the victim's in the hospital and wearing a hospital gown.

She live on her knees I live in a condo in the trees
She makes money by performing oral sex, and I live in a luxurious home high enough to be like a condo nestled within the branches of trees.

The air's a little thinner that I breathe
I'm so high that it feels like the air is thinner to breathe.

Iron Man Audi, let the top strip tease
I own an Audi R8 (Iron Man's car) and let the convertible roof down like a strip tease.

My life is slow-motion but the watch screamin' freeze
I'm living my life in slow-motion, but my watch is still working and symbolizing time moving forward.

Yughck, young nigga gettin' money
Sound effect followed by repetition of earlier line.

The feds dragged neck, couldn't take nothin' from me
The authorities tried to apprehend me, but they were unsuccessful in confiscating my goods.

The decoy car is a crash test dummy
We leave a car as a decoy, but it was designed to be in a car crash so that even if the law enforcement catches it, it would be worthless to them.

What follows is a hundred of 'em wrapped like a mummy
We hid our real product in a hundred cars, wrapped in a way resembling mummies, so even if the authorities do catch one, it wouldn't lead them to the real product.

I'm from a big city
Reiteration of earlier line.

Tryna make a living
Reiteration of earlier line.

Come to my hood
Reiteration of earlier line.

Everybody get it
Reiteration of earlier line.

And for that paper all the wrong things sound right
Reiteration of earlier line.

Where I'm from they push a hundred keys and it sound like
Reiteration of earlier line.

Young niggas gettin' money, young niggas gettin' money
Reiteration of earlier line.

Just a bittersweet symphony
Reiteration of earlier line.

And they gon' risk a hundred lives
Drug dealers may take the risk of many lives for drugs.

So they could rock a hundred whites
Drug users may take a risk of their lives to indulge in hundred doses of cocaine.

The guests look like a hundred lights
The drug users look so ecstatic that they resemble vibrant bright sparkles.

Man when blade down my city, cried a hundred nights
Violence is so common in my city that when revolvers are heard 'blading,' people living here may cry so many times it's innumerable.

Yeah I got a main girl, but I done hit a hundred types
I have a girlfriend, yet I've slept with many women.

Every wrong I do, I'm stayin' tryna do a hundred rights
For every misdeed, I'm also doing a hundred potentially good things to balance it out.

Got her for cheap, a better price
I didn't have to spend much money to surround myself with good people.

My nigga keep that low key, Barry White
My friend stays low-key, like Barry White's deep voice.

And don't worry 'bout the info From where they ride Pintos, couldn't afford Enzos
You don't have to worry about people telling the truth, because they don't have reliable information. Also, their lifestyle isn't wealthy enough to have nice cars like an Enzo; they can only afford Pintos.

'Cause everybody know, keys open doors (keys-keys open doors) But bricks open windows
Everyone knows that drug dealers can open doors with their keys, providing them access. However, an abundance of bricks can open windows, meaning that many drugs can put a house's windows or glass to breaking point to force entry.

Countin' a hundred hundreds, more by more
We have large amounts of money, and we're counting a hundred hundred-dollar bills at a time.

Built this form the tile up, floor by floor
My luxury came from gradually securing it bit by bit.

Talk shit, I send 'em door by door
If someone speaks badly about me, they will face severe consequences.

Made for the Snow White life, four by fours my nigga
My four-by-four car that's built for living in complete luxury is like Snow White's in paradise.