Mantra
Earl Sweatshirt Lyrics

Get your lady
Go and get your girl

Cop, piff, inhale and cough
Buy some weed, smoke it, and cough

Rip the label off this
Take the label off the bottle or blunt

Picked the road that got twists
Chose a path with many unexpected turns

I'm holding my dick and playing cautious
Being careful and defensive

I'ma show you how it's done right nigga
I'm going to demonstrate how to do things properly

Drop this when the sunlight gone
Release this track when it's night-time

Better run right home when the sky turn black
Make sure you get home safe when it's dark

Screaming, "Fuck five-0" 'til my line go flat
Yelling "fuck the police" until I lose my voice

In that ash-gray Beamer we'll be callin' that the pigeon coupe
Cruising in a gray BMW, which we'll refer to as the "pigeon coupe"

Jack knife bitches to the couches in they living rooms
Attacking women and throwing them onto their couches

Ask who the best and I doubt that they picking you
If someone asks who the best rapper is, they won't choose you

Back like how I need to style, I invented you
I taught you how to rap and how to dress

Act like you don't know the name
Pretend like you don't know who I am

Only time I ain't eating when the cho-cha stanky
I only stop eating when I'm having sex with a woman who smells bad

Listening to Pre, getting dome while I lane switch
Listening to music and receiving oral sex while driving

Bitches by the three licking coke off the pinky of a
Girls snorting cocaine off someone's pinky finger

Poster child, you're supposed to hate me
I'm the perfect example of someone to hate

Bold and wild, you broke and angry, my nigga
You're angry and broke, while I'm daring and confident

Name getting bigger than the difference between us
My reputation is growing faster than the distance between us

Niggas is fake, I limit the features I give 'em
Rappers are disingenuous, so I don't collaborate with many of them

Sweat (sweat) shirt (shirt)
My name includes the words "sweatshirt"

You know you famous when the niggas that surround you switch
When people start acting differently around you because you're famous, you know you've made it

And if they hating in a passive tense, now they hounding dick
If someone is passive-aggressively hating on me, they're actually envious

And you ain't ask for this
I never asked for the fame and attention, it's just part of the job

Now you surrounded with a gaggle of 100 fucking thousand kids
Now, I'm followed by an enormous group of fans

Who you can't get mad at, when they want a pound and a pic
I can't be upset when fans ask for photos and handshakes

Cause they the reason that the traffic on the browser quick
They're the ones who drive up my online popularity

And they the reason that the paper in your trousers thick
They're the ones who make me successful and wealthy

You used to say you like violins
You used to enjoy the finer things in life

And your lifestyle depend on me
Your lifestyle was tied to mine

And I know it's night time when you get lonely
I know you're lonely when it's dark outside

And tell all your little friends how that bitch stole me
You complain to your friends how I cheated on you

And despite all the facts that you got phony
Despite your lies and fake stories

You gonna tell them bout the night that you exposed me
You'll tell them our secrets and expose me to the world

For the bastard I was
For the asshole that I used to be

And how I probably smashed every bitch that I passed in the club
And how I've probably had sex with every woman at the club

And the last couple months was the worst
The last few months were the most difficult

Cause I smashed all the trust
Because I betrayed your trust

That I earned in the past couple months
That I built up over the last few months

That we had as a couple
That we shared together as a couple

My absence, a fuss
My absence made you feel upset and agitated

Was a problem that we ain't ever really get to solve
It was an issue that we never truly resolved

We just smashed and we scuffled
We just fought and had sex

Tryna keep it calm but I snap at you
Trying to stay calm, but eventually losing my temper

Now you're taking all your property back and it's obvious that
Now you're taking your things and it's clear that

That apart from the fact that we fuck and it's bomb
Besides having great sex together

And I hate when you home
I can't stand when you're around

And when I'm gone I don't call cause you nag
When I'm away, I don't call you because you're annoying

Man I brought you some shit
I bought you some nice things

And I bought you some shit
I also bought you other things

What you offering here?
What are you bringing to the table?

What the fuck you offering here?
What the hell do you have to offer?

I shouldn't even, fuck, fuck this, fuck all this shit
I shouldn't even be bothered with this situation, I'm so over it

Young nigga, get your lady, cop piff
Young man, go get your girl and buy some weed

Inhale and cough, rip the label off this
Smoke and cough, take the label off the bottle or blunt

Picked the road that got twists
Chose a path with many unexpected turns

I'm holding my dick and playing cautious
Being careful and defensive