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Popular Thug

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Popular Thug

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You know what I am

You know what I do well at least I thought you knew

They call me Pusha

Damn

I take you like a slap in the face

Everytime the bass is mentioned like I had bad intentions

Listen, I thought love was given

So for you I did those things you were missing

Never have to say

Please gimme borrow

As long as I got yay

And two semi autos

And connects in the jets

Like wetback Carlos

I ain't askin' you to follow

Just think 'bout tomorrow

Please

I should have known by the way that you stared

Eyeing passes by like you're rich but life ain't fair

But you make my record skip

Make my record skip

Make my record skip

Make my record skip

I would have never talked to you if I had known you was a popular thug

Hey, popular thug (you're damn right)

I would have never talked to you if I had known you was a popular thug

Hey, popular thug (you're damn right)

I can't help if I'm a thug and I'm popular

I think that come along with driving a shocking car

Watch the coke light up they life

The rocks with stars

Had fiends talking crippled

Cuz they locked they jaw

Aw Pusha T you think it's cool that you deal

Bout as cool as that breeze on the beach in Brazil

As long as fiends want pain

Then I'm gon' slang

When my financial change

Then I'm gon' change

I should have seen in the way you touched my hand

Shuffling your car keys

But sounded like a gentleman

But ya make my record skip

Make my record skip

Make my record skip

Make my record skip

I would have never talked to you if I had known you was a popular thug

Hey, popular thug (you're damn right)

I would have never talked to you if I had known you was a popular thug

Hey, popular thug (you're damn right)

I would have never talked to you if I had known you was a popular thug

Hey, popular thug (you're damn right)

You don't know it yet

It's the life that I live that you love

And the fact that I'm thug that had you holding techs

When you really didn't know what it was

But you did it out of love

Shit

Far from deprived

Give you all of you fetishes

Like treachervous necklaces, beget etceteras

Colors coming out make your head spin like exorcist

Spending bright futures in the hood

All them no good messages

I should have heard it in the way you said my name

While I analyzed your tone you were formulating games

But you make my record skip

Make my record skip

Make my record skip

Make my record skip

I would have never talked to you if I had known you was a popular thug

Hey, popular thug (you're damn right)

I would have never talked to you if I had known you was a popular thug

Hey, popular thug (you're damn right)

I would have never talked to you if I had known you was a popular thug

Hey, popular thug (you're damn right)

I would have never talked to you if I had known you was a popular thug

Hey, popular thug (you're damn right)

Hey, popular thug

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