Anthony H. Forté (born March 2, 1968), better known by his stage name Rappi… Read Full Bio ↴Anthony H. Forté (born March 2, 1968), better known by his stage name Rappin' 4-Tay, is an American rapper from San Francisco, California.
Anthony Forte was born March 2, 1968 and grew up in San Francisco's Fillmore District. He has a twin sister. He has a son as well as three daughters.
Right after high school, 4-Tay made his debut on the Too Short album Life Is...Too Short. He was later convicted on drug charges and served ten months in prison. Upon his release from prison he released his debut album Rappin' 4-Tay Is Back in 1991, and followed up in 1994 with Don't Fight the Feelin', which included the hits "Playaz Club" (which sampled the song "Private Number" by William Bell and Judy Clay and hit number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100), the "Dank Season" featuring Seff Tha Gaffla, and "I'll Be Around" (which hit number 39 on the US Hot 100, number 59 in Australia, and number one in New Zealand).
In 1995, two Rappin' 4-Tay songs—"Problems" and "A Message for Your Mind"—were featured on the Dangerous Minds soundtrack. "A Message For Your Mind" sampled "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5.
Rappin' 4-Tay's mainstream success has been scarce since then, but he was featured on 2Pac's All Eyez on Me album on the track "Only God Can Judge Me" in 1996 and Master P's West Coast Bad Boyz II compilation in 1997. 4-Tay was also an original member of Bay Area supergroup T.W.D.Y. in 1999.
In 2003 Rappin' 4-Tay released the album Gangsta Gumbo with the single "Burning, Burning", followed up by the album That's What You Thought in 2007. In 2010 He was featured on R&B Artist E. Broussard's song titled Big Game Droppin'.
He was featured on the song "My Alphabets" on fellow Bay Area rap veteran Mac Dre's 2004 album The Genie of the Lamp. Dec 06 2011 Rappin' 4-Tay, E-40 and Playalitical collaborated on a song entitled "Bounce It Like a Bad Check" which was featured on the Political Playboy Music album released by Playalitical. In 2012 Rappin' 4-Tay collaborated on the song "Picture a Nigga" with Lil' Gang$ta, as well as helping with his debut album.
In 2013, he headlined the main stage of Seattle Hempfest with artists Ditch, Tony Tag, Brian Meyers and more.
In May 2014, he appeared with E Bone415 in a music video about Alcatraz Island.
Anthony Forte was born March 2, 1968 and grew up in San Francisco's Fillmore District. He has a twin sister. He has a son as well as three daughters.
Right after high school, 4-Tay made his debut on the Too Short album Life Is...Too Short. He was later convicted on drug charges and served ten months in prison. Upon his release from prison he released his debut album Rappin' 4-Tay Is Back in 1991, and followed up in 1994 with Don't Fight the Feelin', which included the hits "Playaz Club" (which sampled the song "Private Number" by William Bell and Judy Clay and hit number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100), the "Dank Season" featuring Seff Tha Gaffla, and "I'll Be Around" (which hit number 39 on the US Hot 100, number 59 in Australia, and number one in New Zealand).
In 1995, two Rappin' 4-Tay songs—"Problems" and "A Message for Your Mind"—were featured on the Dangerous Minds soundtrack. "A Message For Your Mind" sampled "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5.
Rappin' 4-Tay's mainstream success has been scarce since then, but he was featured on 2Pac's All Eyez on Me album on the track "Only God Can Judge Me" in 1996 and Master P's West Coast Bad Boyz II compilation in 1997. 4-Tay was also an original member of Bay Area supergroup T.W.D.Y. in 1999.
In 2003 Rappin' 4-Tay released the album Gangsta Gumbo with the single "Burning, Burning", followed up by the album That's What You Thought in 2007. In 2010 He was featured on R&B Artist E. Broussard's song titled Big Game Droppin'.
He was featured on the song "My Alphabets" on fellow Bay Area rap veteran Mac Dre's 2004 album The Genie of the Lamp. Dec 06 2011 Rappin' 4-Tay, E-40 and Playalitical collaborated on a song entitled "Bounce It Like a Bad Check" which was featured on the Political Playboy Music album released by Playalitical. In 2012 Rappin' 4-Tay collaborated on the song "Picture a Nigga" with Lil' Gang$ta, as well as helping with his debut album.
In 2013, he headlined the main stage of Seattle Hempfest with artists Ditch, Tony Tag, Brian Meyers and more.
In May 2014, he appeared with E Bone415 in a music video about Alcatraz Island.
Only God Can Judge Me
Rappin' 4-Tay Lyrics
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Only God can judge me (that right?)
Only God, baby (can judge me now)
Nobody else (nobody else)
All you other motherfuckers get out my business (really)
(Only God can judge me now)
Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back
I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats
Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed
And hocus pocus I try to focus but I can't see
And in my mind I'm a blind man doin' time
Look to my future 'cause my past, is all behind me
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Everybody's dyin' tell me what's the use in tryin'
I've been Trapped since birth, cautious, 'cause I'm cursed
And fantasies of my family, in a hearse
And they say it's the white man I should fear
But, it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here
I can't lie, ain't no love for the other side
Jealousy inside, make 'em wish I died
Oh my Lord, tell me what I'm livin' for
Everybody's droppin' got me knockin' on heaven's door
And all my memories, of seein' brothers bleed
And everybody grieves, but still nobody sees
Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix
'Cause the media is full of dirty tricks
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me) (that's right, baby)
Yeah baby, hahaha
Only God can judge me, only God can judge
(Only God can judge me, only God)
(Only God can judge me)
Only God can judge me, and only God can
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me, God can judge me
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge
(Only God can judge me now)
Flatline
I hear the doctor standing over me
Screaming I can make it
Got a body full of bullet holes laying here naked
Still I can't breathe, something's evil in my IV
'Cause every time I breathe, I think they killin' me
I'm havin' nightmares, homicidal fantasies
I wake up stranglin', danglin' my bed sheets
I call the nurse 'cause it hurts, to reminisce
How did it come to this? I wish they didn't miss
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here
'Cause even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
Try to remember, but it hurts
I'm walkin' through the cemetery talkin' to the dirt
I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward
There's a ghetto up in Heaven and it's ours, Black Power
Is what we scream as we dream in a paranoid state
And our fate, is a lifetime of hate
Dear Mama, can you save me? And fuck peace
'Cause the streets got our babies, we gotta eat
No more hesitation each and every black male's trapped
And they wonder why we suicidal runnin' around strapped
Mister police, please try to see that there's
A million motherfuckers stressin' just like me
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me
Only God can judge (only God can judge me now)
(Only God can judge me, only God)
And only God can judge me (only God can judge me)
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me now)
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger
(That's for real)
And I don't see why everybody feel as though
That they gotta tell me how to live my life
(You know?)
Let me live baby, let me live
'Pac I feel ya, keep servin' it on the reala
For instance say a playa hatin' mark is out to kill ya
Would you be wrong, for buckin' a nigga to the pavement?
He gon' get me first, if I don't get him, fool start prayin'
Ain't no such thing as self-defense in the court of law
So judge us when we get to where we're goin wearin' a cross, that's real
Got him, lurked him, crept the fuck up on him
Sold a half a million tapes now everybody want him
After talkin' behind my back like a bitch would
Tellin' them niggas, "You can fade him," punk I wish you would
It be them same motherfuckers in your face that'll rush up in your place
To get your safe, knowin' you on that paper chase
Grass, glass, big screen and leather couch
My new shit is so fetti already sold a key of ounce
Bitch, remember 2Pac and 4-Tay
Them same two brothers dodgin' bullets representin' the Bay
'Pac when you was locked down, that's when I'll be around
Start climbing up the charts, so sick, but they tried to clown
That's why they ride the bandwagon still be draggin' sellin' lies
Don't think I don't see you haters, I know y'all in disguise
Guess you figure you know me 'cause I'm a thug
That love to hit the late night club drunk and buzzed
Been livin' lavish like a player all day
Now I'm 'bout to floss em off, player shit with 4-Tay
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me
Only God can judge
(Only God can judge me, only God)
That's real (only God can judge me now)
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me)
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me now)
Only God, man (that right?) That's for real
(Only God can judge me now)
Fuck everybody else, know what I'm sayin'?
(Only God can judge me now)
Man, look here, man
My only fear of death is comin' back to this bitch reincarnated, man
(Only God can judge me now)
That's for the homie mental
Hahaha
We up out (only God can judge me now)
(Only God can judge me now)
(Only God can judge me now)
(Only God can judge me now)
Only God, baby (can judge me now)
Nobody else (nobody else)
All you other motherfuckers get out my business (really)
(Only God can judge me now)
Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back
I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats
And hocus pocus I try to focus but I can't see
And in my mind I'm a blind man doin' time
Look to my future 'cause my past, is all behind me
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Everybody's dyin' tell me what's the use in tryin'
I've been Trapped since birth, cautious, 'cause I'm cursed
And fantasies of my family, in a hearse
And they say it's the white man I should fear
But, it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here
I can't lie, ain't no love for the other side
Jealousy inside, make 'em wish I died
Oh my Lord, tell me what I'm livin' for
Everybody's droppin' got me knockin' on heaven's door
And all my memories, of seein' brothers bleed
And everybody grieves, but still nobody sees
Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix
'Cause the media is full of dirty tricks
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me) (that's right, baby)
Yeah baby, hahaha
Only God can judge me, only God can judge
(Only God can judge me, only God)
(Only God can judge me)
Only God can judge me, and only God can
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me, God can judge me
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge
(Only God can judge me now)
Flatline
I hear the doctor standing over me
Screaming I can make it
Got a body full of bullet holes laying here naked
Still I can't breathe, something's evil in my IV
'Cause every time I breathe, I think they killin' me
I'm havin' nightmares, homicidal fantasies
I wake up stranglin', danglin' my bed sheets
I call the nurse 'cause it hurts, to reminisce
How did it come to this? I wish they didn't miss
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here
'Cause even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
Try to remember, but it hurts
I'm walkin' through the cemetery talkin' to the dirt
I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward
There's a ghetto up in Heaven and it's ours, Black Power
Is what we scream as we dream in a paranoid state
And our fate, is a lifetime of hate
Dear Mama, can you save me? And fuck peace
'Cause the streets got our babies, we gotta eat
No more hesitation each and every black male's trapped
And they wonder why we suicidal runnin' around strapped
Mister police, please try to see that there's
A million motherfuckers stressin' just like me
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me
Only God can judge (only God can judge me now)
(Only God can judge me, only God)
And only God can judge me (only God can judge me)
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me now)
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger
(That's for real)
And I don't see why everybody feel as though
That they gotta tell me how to live my life
(You know?)
Let me live baby, let me live
'Pac I feel ya, keep servin' it on the reala
For instance say a playa hatin' mark is out to kill ya
Would you be wrong, for buckin' a nigga to the pavement?
He gon' get me first, if I don't get him, fool start prayin'
Ain't no such thing as self-defense in the court of law
So judge us when we get to where we're goin wearin' a cross, that's real
Got him, lurked him, crept the fuck up on him
Sold a half a million tapes now everybody want him
After talkin' behind my back like a bitch would
Tellin' them niggas, "You can fade him," punk I wish you would
It be them same motherfuckers in your face that'll rush up in your place
To get your safe, knowin' you on that paper chase
Grass, glass, big screen and leather couch
My new shit is so fetti already sold a key of ounce
Bitch, remember 2Pac and 4-Tay
Them same two brothers dodgin' bullets representin' the Bay
'Pac when you was locked down, that's when I'll be around
Start climbing up the charts, so sick, but they tried to clown
That's why they ride the bandwagon still be draggin' sellin' lies
Don't think I don't see you haters, I know y'all in disguise
Guess you figure you know me 'cause I'm a thug
That love to hit the late night club drunk and buzzed
Been livin' lavish like a player all day
Now I'm 'bout to floss em off, player shit with 4-Tay
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me
Only God can judge
(Only God can judge me, only God)
That's real (only God can judge me now)
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me)
(Only God can judge me, only God)
Only God can judge me
(Only God can judge me now)
Only God, man (that right?) That's for real
(Only God can judge me now)
Fuck everybody else, know what I'm sayin'?
(Only God can judge me now)
Man, look here, man
My only fear of death is comin' back to this bitch reincarnated, man
(Only God can judge me now)
That's for the homie mental
Hahaha
We up out (only God can judge me now)
(Only God can judge me now)
(Only God can judge me now)
(Only God can judge me now)
The lyrics to Rappin' 4-Tay's song "Only God Can Judge Me" depict a sense of disillusionment and distrust in society. The opening lines emphasize the singer's belief that only God can truly pass judgement on him, and not the opinions or interference of others. He expresses feeling betrayed by people he once considered friends, describing them as "dirty rats" who have stabbed him in the back. The songwriter also reflects on his past and the struggles he has faced, contemplating whether his fight for what is rightfully his is considered a crime. He acknowledges the violence and death that surround him, questioning the purpose of his existence and expressing his desire to escape the constant suffering.
The second verse delves further into the singer's struggles, both physically and mentally. He describes being in a vulnerable state, with bullet holes in his body and a feeling that something evil is being injected into him through his IV. He experiences nightmares and homicidal thoughts, feeling overwhelmed by the pain and reminiscing on how he arrived at this point. The lyrics also touch on the experience of the Black community, expressing a sense of racial pride and the belief that Heaven belongs to them. The singer questions whether the Lord cares about their plight and highlights the hardships faced by young Black men who feel trapped and resort to carrying weapons for protection. The final verse includes a reference to 2Pac (Tupac Shakur) and their friendship, as well as the challenges they both faced in the music industry.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Songtrust Ave
Written by: Tupac Amaru Shakur, Harold A. Fretty, Douglas B. Rasheed, Anthony Forte
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@FaizCaliph
Rappin’ 4 Tay underrated. Love his verse
@BlackCulturalPreservation2023
That's that FILLMORE San Fran SMOKE
@RalphHund
Agree!
@bluestarfc7370
I love 4 tay i get around what a tune. 4 tay and pac was close friends
@mr-junebugg74
Only God can judge me forget you busters 💪🏾💪🏾
@jeffpower-thisthattheoddtr4503
I'm 49 and still love 4 tay
@shaniajacobs7312
R.I.P Tupac 😢
@cj-s90
THE G.O.A.T THE DON P.A.C ❤🕊👑
@ekman2188
MY FAVORITE SONG OF ALL TIME.....!!! NUFF SAID!!!!
@cdawg5104
4-Tay servin em!