WTF (Where They From)

Album: single release only (2015)
Charted: 66 22
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  • (Shorty, what?)
    The dance that you doing is dumb
    How they do it where you from? (Hey, triflin')
    Stickin' out your tongue
    Girl, but you know you're too young
    A bunch of girls do it and the shit look fun
    That's how they do it where we from (hey)
    You know it don't start 'til one
    That's how they do it where they from

    I'm so faded, no exaggeration (what?)
    Back breakin' like a percolation (what?)
    Boys to the yard for some hip spankin'
    Where you make it drop down like you in the matrix (yeah)
    Can't take it, them chicks been fakin' (what?)
    Y'all still sleep, better stay awakened (what?)
    Hot new dance for the hood to make it
    Make the dope move fast, make them think you drinkin' (yeah)
    Head to the floor don't collect that though (what?)
    You better huddle up 'cause the beat's so cold (huh)
    Pop that, pop that, cock and reload (huh)
    This another hit, I got an ace in the hole (what?)
    Boys on my back, playa did you peep that?
    You got a small stack, playa, you can keep that (huh)
    I'ma Big Mac, make you wanna eat that
    Like m-m-m-m-m, yak it to the yak (yeah)
    Junk in the trunk, make you pumps in the bump
    Girls wanna have fun, make you stickin' out your tongue, uh (shorty, what?)

    The dance that you doing is dumb
    How they do it where you from? (Hey, triflin')
    Stickin' out your tongue
    Girl, but you know you're too young
    A bunch of girls do it and the shit look fun
    That's how they do it where we from (hey)
    You know it don't start 'til one
    That's how they do it where they from

    I come into this bitch like liquid (what?)
    Drip, drip, drip, then the business (nigga, what?)
    Click, click, get your picture
    Hermés Trismegistus (hey)
    Witness and get lifted
    Basic, nigga I was born in the basement
    Shape shift, nigga I think like a spaceship
    False, oh-nah-nah-nah
    I am so different than y'all
    So far apart
    The way that I balance the bars
    I never fall
    And if I do I just call
    The almighty yellow star, God
    Lyrically I'm Optimus Prime
    The car I drive, La Ferrari
    When I go by, smoke in your eyes
    So open your eyes, the joke's on you guys
    And you ain't gotta be a mason to see through
    Some of this shit on occasion (shorty, what?)

    The dance that you doing is dumb
    How they do it where you from? (Hey, triflin')
    Stickin' out your tongue
    Girl, but you know you're too young
    A bunch of girls do it and the shit look fun
    That's how they do it where we from (hey)
    You know it don't start 'til one
    That's how they do it where they from

    I'm like kak-a-rak-a-rak-rak-a-rak-a-rak (what?)
    Make a new track, make 'em fall on they crack (what?)
    Give 'em a slap, appetizer and smack (what?)
    I'm so fat in the back, make the boys all collapse (yeah)
    Yeah, when I rap they be all on my jack
    Boys wanna jump on this pussy cat, uh
    Got a new idea, let me switch it
    Man, I'm so futuristic
    Big lips and big, big, big hips
    Body be thick like a biscuit
    I'm different, rippin' shit
    Microphone grippin' it
    Gettin' these Benjamins
    New car, whippin' it, uh
    I'm so far ahead of y'all
    Man, I'm on top of the stars
    I don't care none of you are
    Blah-blah-blah, you best to go rewrite your bars (shorty, what?)

    How they do it where you from? (Hey, triflin')
    How they do it where you from? (Nigga, what?)
    That's how they do it where we from (what? Hey)
    That's how they do it where they from (shorty, what?)
    How they do it where you from? (Hey)
    How they do it where you from?
    That's how they do it where we from (what?)
    That's how they do it where they from Writer/s: Melissa A Elliott, Pharrell L Williams
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Kaden Vanciel from Visalia, CaliforniaThis song is in the second trailer for Solar Opposites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qscoHte0_SQ
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