Let The Beat Build

Album: Tha Carter III (2008)
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  • Yeah
    I see you, big bro
    I'ma kill these niggas, man
    Yeah (haha)

    Straight off the block wit' it
    Eagle Street to be specific
    I'm peepin' at your people different
    I pay my dues, you keep the difference
    I can see the end in the beginning
    So I'm not racing, I'm just sprintin'
    'Cause I don't wanna finish
    They diminish, I replenish
    Scientific, I'm out this world, ho
    I wear bright red, like a girl toe
    No homo, fingernails dirty
    I've been counting dirty money since 12:30
    A.M., weigh them
    If they short, take them right back and spray him, amen
    Yeah, I just do my Wayne
    And every time I do it, I do my thing, yeah
    Believe that like a true story
    Rims big, make the car look like it's two stories
    If I hop out, that'd be suicide
    No back seats, call that paralyze
    I don't have a spine, I don't fantasize
    I mastermind then go after mine
    You see, I handle mine, I dismantle mine
    I tote a tool box, bitch, it's Hammer-time
    So excuse me as I nail 'em 'til some fell and
    Just repel 'em, I'ma kill 'em
    Someone tell 'em I'ma kill 'em
    I'm gon' fill 'em up, his momma can't tell 'em
    And the doctors can't heal 'em, I'ma kill 'em
    And, yeah, we sell 'em, I know you smell 'em
    And if you want it, you could just yell it
    And it be in the morning at your telly
    Whole ki' go for twenty, half a ki' go for eleven
    After me, there will be nothing
    I am legend and I will Smith
    Now that's how you let the beat build, bitch

    That's how you let the beat build, bitch
    Now that's how you let the beat build, bitch
    Let the beat build, bitch
    And the beat go boom
    B-boom-ba-boom
    Boom, b-boom-ba-boom
    It go, boom b-boom-ba-boom
    Now say (yeah, yeah, yeah)

    Come on
    Just a snare and a 808
    Weezy baby on the mic, D.O.A.
    OK, I'd like to thank Kanye
    And my nigga Deezle from giving me this diesel
    Like an F-350, tank never empty
    Damn, everybody in the bank act friendly
    Used to think my shit didn't stink, boy, was I wrong
    Approving million dollar deals from my iPhone
    I'ma take it one-two way back
    Like a silk wife beater and a wave cap
    Or the wave pool at Blue Bayou
    And I waved, fool, as I blew by you
    Hello, hi, you, I can buy you
    But I wouldn't try you, feed you to Piru
    I know what I'm doin', I show and prove and show improvement
    And I know just to go into it
    Could never amount to going through it
    Whatever or how you wanna do it
    We can do it like we late, ay, wait
    Deezle, let me just get the 808
    As I hit the kill switch
    Now that's how you let the beat build, bitch

    That's how you let the beat build, bitch
    That's how you let the beat build, bitch
    Let the beat build, bitch
    And the beat go boom
    B-boom-ba-boom
    It go boom, b-boom-ba-boom
    The beat go boom
    B-boom-ba-boom
    Now everybody say (yeah, yeah, yeah)

    And I am the best rapper alive
    I am the best rapper alive
    And I will eat you alive
    Think I'm lying?
    I'ma get in a nigga chest like a bunch of phlegm
    Like a fuckin' ram, I'ma hunt for the lamb
    I'ma dump 'em, man, in a dumpster can
    You ain't a soldier, ask Uncle Sam
    Hair nappy like Pam, nigga, fuck your plan
    Fuck your man
    You ain't a pimp unless you get the same bitch
    To fuck your man and fuck your clan
    And all my bitches know that's my plan
    Oh, goddamn, there's my sample playin' like that's my band
    Gotta get it cleared
    Suck my dick with red lipstick and don't let it smear
    And I got a lot of tattoos and I meant every tear
    And I'm still on that street shit
    Back to the beat, bitch

    That's how you let the beat build, bitch
    Now that's how you let the beat build, bitch
    Let the beat build, they say (yeah, yeah, yeah)
    And the beat go boom
    B-boom-ba-boom
    It go boom, b-boom-ba-boom
    The beat go boom
    B-boom-ba-boom
    Now everybody say (yeah)
    And the beat go boom
    B-boom-ba-boom
    It go boom, b-boom-boom
    The beat go boom
    B-boom-ba-boom
    Now say (yeah, yeah, yeah) Writer/s: Darius Harrison, Dwayne Carter, Kanye West, Leonard Caston, Terri Mcfaddin
    Publisher: Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Jerome Productions from FloridaThis song is a hit of many on Tha Carter III mane! Kanye really went hard producing and Wayne went in on it like a G
  • Alejandro from Sacramento, CaI second that comment
  • Charday from Bokey, FlHonestly i went crazi wen i heard dis beat man. Big Big Big Upz to Kanye for dis beat. And weezy killed it fo sho it's hott.
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