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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Common
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Casada Sorrell
Songwriter
Durk Banks
Songwriter
Jamell Demons
Songwriter
Martin McCurtis
Songwriter
Terry Sanchez Wallace
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Kanye West
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
It's only right that I address this
Gotta be in it to win it
I never come lame type killing in the game
Get busy
It's only right that I address this
Gotta be in it to win it
I never come lame type killing in the game
Hot music
[Verse 2]
Raised by game
Where **** ain't fazed by fame
Come to the crib, get bang, they take your chain
Stay in your lane
Brokeback ain't the way of the game
My brainstorm is like I stay in the ring
My favorite was Kane, now I'm dope with weight in the game
You was hot but can't stay in the flame
Ghetto pain and windows crack
The fist is like a symbol for black
Can tell the real by how the real interact
In the middle of wack my soul sticks to a track
Kickback records get kicked to the back
I want big cribs and my man Ronnie to get his
Child in a good school and know what her gift is
It's global warming, the world is shifting
Watching Sweet Sixteen, bitchin' ass rich kids
You don't know it like you gotta go the distance
Whether yoga or doja, we all get lifted in the game
[Verse 3]
It's only right that I address this
Gotta be in it to win it
I never come lame type killing in the game
I get busy
It's only right that I address this
Gotta be in it to win it
I never come lame type killing in the game
Hot music
[Verse 4]
I never kissed that ass of the masses, I'm the black molasses
Thick and I lasted, pass these rat bastards
They try to box me in like Cassius Clay
Hey I'm like Muhammed when he fasted
Opposing the fascist
Make cuts and got gashes, scratches over third eyelashes
Punchlines are like jab pits to rappers
Whose careers now ashes, it's too many slashes in their name
Came in the game, these gun clappers
From weak lines to clothing lines to an actress
I seen them dashing smash hits, I yell run **** run
While I cook up classics
The weak hearted, become Babylon puppets
Making it hard for real hustlers
Touch the sky now and then, with a lady friend
Give thanks to the most that's how the day begins in the game
[Verse 5]
It's only right that I address this
Gotta be in it to win it
I never come lame type killing in the game
Get busy
It's only right that I address this
Gotta be in it to win it
I never come lame type killing in the game
Hot music
[Verse 6]
I just wanna be like Akeelah, an achiever
From the streets of the Chi where some get high for leisure
Selling weed out of cleaners, from rocks to barber shops and beamers
Chicks with blond weaves and strong legs like Serena
The demeanor of the ghetto, to never stay settled
Alderman and corrupt mans play pharaoh
Good bring business to the hood like heralds
Five year olds walking by themselves in the street
The young die of cancer, I stop eating meat
Greet the gods on eighty-seventh street like peace
Even though it's war to G, got 'em facin' the east
The game ain't tastin' as sweet
Cash flowin' still and they complacent with beats
My radio station is deep, so F 'em
Progression, countin' paper and blessings in the game
[Verse 7]
It's only right that I address this
Gotta be in it to win it
I never come lame type killing in the game
Get busy
It's only right that I address this
Gotta be in it to win it
I never come lame type killing in the game
Hot music
Written by: Kanye West, Lonnie Lynn, Soul Ekos