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Light Up (feat. Drake)

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Light Up (feat. Drake)

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[Verse 1: Drake]

I've been up for four days, getting money both ways

Dirty and clean, I could use a glass of cold Spades

Rolexes, chauffers and low fades

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age?

They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you

And even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true

Cause while all of my closest friends out partying

I'm just here making all the music that they party to

But party on, party on all night nigga

I got these new rappers nervous: prom night nigga

I grow tired of these fucking grown man liars

Storytellers, they ain't even need a campfire

But I just want to tell the truth

Before one of these haters load a couple shells and shoot

The shit feel like when Fredro Starr

Was in Sunset Park stunting hard in his yellow goose

And I'm a motherfucking missed target

But a target none the less and I just started

Was that directed at moi? Can't be

They must be talking to themselves Hov, hands free

And I'm just filling up this daily planner

Getting busy cause I'm a star, no spangled banner

Jealous dudes get to talking in they music

And I just say I wrote it for your girlfriends, Kelsey Grammer

That's what life becomes when you're doing you

Welcome to Hollywood, don't let this town ruin you

And if you pillow talking with the women that are screwing you

Just know that she gonna tell another nigga when she through with you

Don't get impatient when it takes too long

Drink it all, even when it tastes too strong

I got to feel alive, even if it kills me

Promise to always give you me, the real me

[Hook]

Who would've thought I'd be caught in this life?

Let's celebrate with a toast and get lost in tonight and make it all light up

Wait until the sun goes down, we gon' make this bitch light up

Even when the sun goes down I'm a make it go

[Verse 2: Jay-Z]

Oww, hoes turn they heads like owls, I'm the man of the hour

Triple entendre, don't even ask me how

Con Edison flowing, I'm connected to a higher power

Bright lights will make your whole city light up

A trillion watt light bulb when I'm in the night club

I just landed in that G450

Caught the Mayweather fight cause the satellite was crispy

Y'all gonna miss me with the money talk

The smart money's on Hov, fuck what the dummies talk

I don't do too much blogging

I just run the town, I don't do too much jogging

Ain't got a scar yet

Cause you fucking around with me and my dogs is far fetched

Drake, here's how they gon' come at you

With silly rap feuds, trying to distract you

In disguise, in the form of a favor

The Barzini meet, watch for the traitors

I done seen it all, done it all

That's why none of these dum-dums could done him off

The summer's ours, the winter too

Top down in the winter, that's what winners do

And to these niggas I'm like Windows 7

You let them tell it, they swear that they invented you

And since no good deed go unpunished

I'm not as cool with niggas as I once was

I once was cool as the Fonz was

But these bright lights turned me to a monster

Sorry mama, I promised it wouldn't change me

But I would have went insane had I remained the same me

Fuck niggas, bitches too, all I got is this money, this'll do

[Hook]

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