Respect

Duration

4:36

Genres

Hip-Hop

Description

Lyrics

[Chorus All] Aye what I gotta do to get respect?/ Now do I gotta lie, to approve what I project?/ But I won't even try, I will only do my best/ As I sit and I reflect, I'ma tell you like this/ Then I'ma tell ‘em Do That - Do That - Do That.... Cause You[‘re] That - You[‘re] That - You[‘re] That… Do That - Do That - Do That... And You Bet - You Bet - You Bet... [Verse 1] Would you respect me if I used nigga more? So when I go describe about my dawgs, I might say my nigga Shawn/ Or my nigga Jon, nigga Paul, my nigga Mike/ Now does that make sense? Even if they was all white?/ Is that all right? Absurd? Go peep the essence?/ Would you care if how I say my words, supersedes the message/ Maybe you'd care if I was drug dealing/ Or if I lied, when I damn sure know I didn't/ I’m talking kilo...When you and me know – I’ve never seen No--/ Nan drug in my possession -- whiter than some vino/ Stimulating simulations of zeros out of Chino/ Emulating, immitating Pacino & Casino/ Damn! Seems like every rapper wants to be Scarface/ Until they get that call, from the law bout their dawg man/ If that's cool, I'ma tattoo my face up/ Stay strapped up from the waist up, just for some respect/ [Verse 2] Would you respect me, if I started to conform/ To everything you thought that I should be within the norm/ Would ya, like me better if sweat ya? Gave you my body even though I just met ya/ Would you respect me so much more, if to get what I wanted started actin like a whore/ And would love me if i cried, and begged for your love until a part of me died/ But I will say the girls these days, don't hesitate to give it all away/ be walkin round like they got something to say, better look in the mirror get your head on straight/ Would you respect me if I fit your mold with a perfect body and expensive clothes/ wouldn't be happy till I sold my soul but at the end of the day would you respect me/ [Bridge] And if I gave, almost everything, what would you say, baby/ What would you do, would you approve, be what you need/ Would you respect me? [Verse 3] Would you respect me more? If I was out on the tour.../ Getting BJ's, cause of my leeway, when their like "DJ.../ Can we lay?” – It’s just that easy.../ Cause they don’t give a damn bout my name, where I came, or that I’m leaving/ Would you respect that? Well then you’re pitiful.../ My pivotal issue with these issues, made me change it from the original/ What if I hit a few, cause I did a few.../ Things I didn’t appreciate, cause I’m miserable and “slizzard” too/ What if I were to get on an interview? Talking “bitch” this, “hoe” that/ No regards to hold back..../ Or the smarts to know that my own mama.../ Would see all this drama that I conjure, to her name and bring dishonor/ Would you respect that? Well my people say that I’m uptight/ But they don’t know the toll, cause my people had raised me up right/ I make mistakes like the next man, in order to be the best man/ That I can be...No longer blind, cause I can see.../