In the A

Album: Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors (2012)
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  • I keep it playa while some choose to play it safe
    Boy check the resume, it's risky business in the A
    I keep it playa while some choose to play it safe
    Boy check the resume, it's risky business in the A
    In the A, in the A, in the A, in the A, uh
    A, in the A, in the A, in the A, uh
    A, in the A, in the A, in the A, uh
    A, in the A, in the A, in the A, uh

    I'm a Bankhead nigga, you can bank that nigga
    Looking for a sucka, well I ain't that nigga
    I'm looking for the money, where the bank at nigga
    I'm triple OG, outrank that nigga
    I'm cold, riding through the city on vogues
    30 karats in the Rollie for the bitches and the hoes
    Hanging out the window of a Bentley
    I just met my connect, dropped off snow in the bluff
    On James P. Brawley, ain't we ballin'
    Got a problem with it, nigga bang that 40
    Niggas nowadays just ain't like shawty
    Don't spit that cocaine like shawty
    Set it on fire, they flame ain't like shawty
    Flow don't go insane, I'm mental
    Blowing presidential, 20 bricks off in the rental
    We official ATLiens with plenty ye to sell again
    DEA on our tail again, well tell amigo mail again
    Dope boy, trap nigga shit I did it
    Say you want a hundred bricks well I bet I get it
    Tell them other sucka niggas tryna rep my city
    K.I.N.G. bitch best get with it
    All I know is go get it, swag so silly
    Checks on deck, I'm racked up with it
    Got a house College Park, stay stacked up with it
    Got a Louis V bag, stay sacked up with it
    Big diamonds in my Cuban
    They won't be where we go shooting, mane
    In the A, it's undisputed
    We some legends, best to do it, mane

    I keep it playa while some choose to play it safe
    Boy check the resume, it's risky business in the A
    I keep it playa while some choose to play it safe
    Boy check the resume, it's risky business in the A
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    King shit, Buckingham Palace
    Til I'm bucking on a muthafuckin' beat goddammit, I
    Ain't lost a step, but some of y'all niggas flaw to death
    Since Player's Ball, I was called the best
    And now they only call me Daddy Fat Sax
    The Cadillac-a with the diamond in the back
    With the sunroof top
    My daddy said I'm lackin' the vitamin D the sun won't stop
    Shine brighter, rhyme tighter
    Than anybody in your top ten my nigga, my nigga
    Like a postman, I deliver
    See I'm the letter with the anthrax in it, pass that, hit it
    Sniff it, snort it, then gon' take a bump shawty
    Uh, take a number cause I'm serving the chumps
    That wanna jump up and get beat down, I'm Brand Nubian
    Brand new again, never get old
    When I was little, boy they said I had a old soul
    Old gold
    Riding with some pimps on a ho stroll, now that's loco
    And you're local, and I'm global
    That means worldwide like a rising tide
    I'm gonna subside and rise again like clockwork
    C-Bone is gonna show you how the Glock work (brap)
    Nonviolent though, no violence, just styling ho
    From the birthplace of MLK where everything ain't okay but KKK
    I'm more Malcolm than Martin, come get some, be a target
    Standing in the kitchen with the AK, aka the Choppa

    I keep it playa while some choose to play it safe
    Boy check the resume, it's risky business in the A
    I keep it playa while some choose to play it safe
    Boy check the resume, it's risky business in the A
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    Now this is the A-Town, come on the premises if you wanna
    Play with death, you get stung like the Crocodile Hunter
    Got them racks, slanging them packs and no we can't leave them sacks alone
    Hired an assistant 'cause my weed need a chaperone
    (Luda!) And then Big Boi will pass the lighter
    I'm convinced that we started the California brush fires
    One, two, and it don't stop, so many whips at my crib
    Ya chick came, the bitch thought it was a road block
    Spending cash so fast, you'd think I'm foolish
    And I love chicks with ass so it arch like St. Louis
    Got chicks hugging my nuts like a speedo
    'Cause when I'm on the mic, I go for broke like T.O
    But we know I'm rich and pay the bills at my mother house
    Atlanta cribs jealous cause I'm chilling at my other house
    Yea you may be able to out-trap me
    But none of you niggas will ever out-rap me

    I keep it playa while some choose to play it safe
    Boy check the resume, it's risky business in the A
    I keep it playa while some choose to play it safe
    Boy check the resume, it's risky business in the A
    In the A, in the A, in the A, in the A, uh
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    What is this that you say?
    What's this you say?
    Is that what you say?
    Is that what you say?
    Is that what you say?
    They stay out all night on the basketball court
    Practising, and practising their jump shot
    Practising their hook-shot
    And practising and practising, and then they're qualified for the majors
    Well why can't you stay up all night practising your multiplication
    Practising your Chemistry, practising your Physics
    Why can't you stay up practising that?
    If practice makes perfect, then why do you just specialize in fun things
    And not in the things that require effort, commitment, and sacrifice Writer/s: Antwan Patton, Christopher Brian Bridges, Clifford Harris, Cory Antonio Andrews, Lawrence Butler, Wilbert Lee Ellis
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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