Featured In
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
ScHoolboy Q
Vocals
Jesse Rankins
Background Vocals
Mark Spears
Piano
Terrace Martin
Vocoder
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Quincy Hanley
Songwriter
Mario Loving
Songwriter
Tyruss Himes
Songwriter
2Pac
Songwriter
Claydes Smith
Songwriter
Dennis Ronald Thomas
Songwriter
George Brown
Songwriter
Jeannette Dubois
Songwriter
Jeff Barry
Songwriter
Johnny Jackson
Songwriter
Nesbitt Wesonga
Songwriter
Otha Nash
Songwriter
Richard Westfield
Songwriter
Robert Bell
Songwriter
Robert Spike Mickens
Songwriter
Ronald Bell
Songwriter
Vince Edwards
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Derek "MixedByAli" Ali
Mixing Engineer
James Hunt
Recording Engineer
Mike Bozzi
Mastering Engineer
Nez & Rio
Producer
Sam Hook
Vocal Producer
Lyrics
[Intro]
Uh, believe that
Yo
For real, yo (Uh, uh, uh)
[Verse 1]
Figured that I gotta sell dope or the money won't grow, uh
Figured I was too short and I could never turn pro, uh
You could tell I never had shit, but bet I get that eighty-grand wrist
Told me we could never get rich
Now watch me ride the Chevy, hit the switch
Straight ballin' like a bitch
Ayy, ridin' through the city on chrome (Come on)
Ghetto **** out the sunroof, hey
Foreign keys, bitch, please, straight ballin' like a bitch
Flossin' in the mind
Stuntin' like the first, shufflin' the work
Uh, I done came from the dirt
Now the engine make the tire go skrrt
Used to sleep with roaches, crackhead uncle and all
Now a hundred thousand just an hour involved, hmm
So easy how I make a mil' flip
Snoop ain't the only rich Crip, **** (Uh)
From sleepin' on Top's couch to multiple bank accounts
To havin' me a mall for a house, like
They tried to slim my chances as a kid, though
They always said I'd never make it big
Straight ballin' like a bitch
[Chorus]
Picture me rollin', oh
Straight outta the ghetto to a deluxe apartment in the sky (Straight ballin' like a bitch)
Picture me rollin', oh, yeah
I used to smoke bush, now all this kush got me so high
So high
I used to smoke bush, now all this kush got me so high (Straight ballin' like a bitch)
(So high)
Straight ballin' like a bitch
(So high)
Straight ballin' like a bitch
Straight ballin' like a bitch
Straight ballin' like a bitch
[Verse 2]
Ayy, wait-waitin' on my turn to get paid (Come on)
**** tryna make a mil' a day (Come on)
Put that rental on the interstate
Since a youngin, I was gifted
Mama bought me something for the bitches
Bruh, I got some things you gotta witness
Stomach gets to mumblin' at night
Watchin' every car that drive by
Lookin' every driver in the eye
52nd enterprise
Marchin' in these Chukkas like they boots
Money make a pussy get the juice
Money make the copper give a pass
Money make me cop a bigger roof
Money got me skippin' every class
Tryna kill 'em for the summer
The teachers ain't teachin', the judge taught us numbers
Uh, we was raised by single mothers
Pop wouldn't tuck us under covers
Through the streets, we learned colors
Hidin' from the reaper, tryna dodge the cage
The shit I've done to rhyme on this stage
I went from king of the corner
To breaking down weed on my diploma
Straight ballin' like a bitch
[Chorus]
Picture me rollin', oh
Straight outta the ghetto to a deluxe apartment in the sky (Straight ballin' like a bitch)
Picture me rollin', oh, yeah
I used to smoke bush, now all this kush got me so high
So high
I used to smoke bush, now all this kush got me so high (Straight ballin' like a bitch)
(So high)
Straight ballin' like a bitch
(So high)
Straight ballin' like a bitch
Straight ballin' like a bitch
Straight ballin' like a bitch
Written by: 2Pac, C. Smith, Claydes Eugene Smith, D. Thomas, Dennis Ronald Thomas, G. Brown, George Melvin Brown (Music by), Himes Tyruss Gerald, J. Barry, J. Dubois, J. Jackson, Janet Du Bois, Mario Loving, N. Wesonga Jr., Nesbitt Mayabi Wesonga Jr., O. NASH, Quincy Hanley, R. Bell, R. Mickens, R. Westfield, Richard Allen Westfield, Robert Earl Bell (Music by), Ronald N. Bell, Tyruss Himes, V. Edwards