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When I Get On

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When I Get On

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|Verse 1|

Look, my gift (my gift), my curse (curse)

Ima put it all out in one verse (yes)

So ima start by asking niggas whats worse

Going to a 9 to 5, grindin 'till I eat dirt (never)

You should know (know), what I do it for (for)

'Cause I don't ever wanna go back to being broke (no)

I don't ever wanna go back to the 3rd floor

08C, apartment 224

So I don't drink and I don't smoke

Don't get sleep, nah i just work

My and my brother, we've been doing this since knee-high

But ain't nobody checking for niggas in D.I

So we fly, I mean we flew

In to Georgia and we made plans too (what)

Get heard (get heard), and be seen (seen)

Put on for our city by any means (yes!)

|Chorus|

Thinkin' about whats been going wrong

Wondering when my time's gonna come

I've payed the cost, and worked so hard

So I can't wait 'till I get on

When it's my turn to be the boss

Ima show these niggas who put me off

That I'm the don, the only one

So I can't wait 'till I get on

Ima lose my mind if I don't get on

That's why I grind 'till I get on

'Cause I'm gon' shine when I get on

So I can't wait 'till I get on

Ima push these rides when I get on

Spit these lines when I get on

Ima be king when I get on

So I can't wait 'till I get on

|Verse 2|

How do I reign

In this over-saturated game

When everything I'm hearing is really sounding the same

If we lose you know who they gon' blame - us!

For not doing a song with T-Pain

Or even Akon or any big names

Spit it like Jeezy, Kanye or Lil' Wayne

And I'm a fan of 'em all

But the fact still remains - that I won't

'Cause we tryna create our own lane

I swear to God that I will never change

I refuse to compromise and be a victim of the game

I speak it from the heart so the world can feel my pain

Told you I don't care about the fame

I'm like a new Jay-Z with a Virgin Island swag

And a A-Town bounce with my Virgin Islands flag

Pardon me if I brag but see we ain't never had

Wake the neighbors, tell them haters that we came to make you mad

And I've been

|Chorus|

Thinkin' about whats been going wrong

Wondering when my time's gonna come

I've payed the cost, and worked so hard

So I can't wait 'till I get on

When it's my turn to be the boss

Ima show these niggas who put me off

That I'm the don, the only one

So I can't wait 'till I get on

Ima lose my mind if I don't get on

That's why I grind 'till I get on

'Cause I'm gon' shine when I get on

So I can't wait 'till I get on

Ima push these rides when I get on

Spit these lines when I get on

Ima be king when I get on

So I can't wait 'till I get on

|Bridge|

Feels like I'm gonna lose my mind

No matter what, we won't compromise

Ima rise from the bottom to the top one day

Swear that it never gon' stop, no way

And I don't care what these haters got to say

I knew that I was gonna make it there

|Chorus|

Thinkin' about whats been going wrong

Wondering when my time's gonna come

I've payed the cost, and worked so hard

So I can't wait 'till I get on

When it's my turn to be the boss

Ima show these niggas who put me off

That I'm the don, the only one

So I can't wait 'till I get on

Ima lose my mind if I don't get on

That's why I grind 'till I get on

'Cause I'm gon' shine when I get on

So I can't wait 'till I get on

Ima push these rides when I get on

Spit these lines when I get on

Ima be king when I get on

So I can't wait 'till I get on

Ima lose my mind if I don't get on

Wondering when my time's gonna come

Wait 'till I get on

When it's my turn to be the boss

Ima be king when I get on

Wait 'till I get on

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