[Intro]
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[Hook]
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Work so fucking much my greatest fear is I'ma die alone
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Every diamond in my chain, yeah, that's a milestone
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People calling me, asking me for money, man
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The only thing I'mma give you motherfuckers is the dial tone
[Verse 1]
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Flashbacks of a youngin' sipping that purple Kool Aid
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Skipping school with my homies and chiefing reefer for two days
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Running from the law, living how I'm living, fuck 'em all
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Bumping Triple Six
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Hennessy in my cup, driving through the sticks
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Who the bitch riding with me?
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Man, the devil tryna get me
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Motivated, under-educated, and hated
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But finally getting cake like a happy belated
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Bitch I made it, we on
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Buy it, break it, roll it, light it, smoke it, inhale it
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Write it, record it, mix it, master it, press it up, unveil it
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Feel like I've been waiting forever, forever to inherit
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This is war, I declare it
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Time is money, I can't spare it
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Futuristic, so simplistic
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Please decipher my linguistics
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Slow it down, Robitussin
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I'm the king, ain't no discussion
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And now we blowing up like spontaneous human combustion
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My consumption is the illest
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Section eight, I know you feel this
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On the come up, where they run up on you for nothing at all
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Brighter than eleven suns, this the first, where my funds?
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EBT, that's the card
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I thank God, I thank God, but it's hard, but it's hard
[Hook]
C
Work so fucking much my greatest fear is I'mma die alone
C
Every diamond in my chain, yeah, that's a milestone
C
People calling me, asking me for money, man
C
The only thing I'mma give you motherfuckers is the dial tone
[Verse 2]
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God damn, god damn, we at it again
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Me and my homies that know me blowing up like the Taliban
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Yeah, my stress up, but I'm blessed up
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Fuck around and get messed up
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When I murder the rhyme, I'm living divine
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You know that I'm one of a kind
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Lemme get it right now, ho
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Draped up and I'm dripped out, right now, ho
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Caked up 'til I cash out and I got 'em all wondering how, so
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On the down low, haters drown slow
C
On the down low, haters drown slow
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Oh God, my God, we got it all right
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Oh God, my God, we gotta get it, right?
Gm
These fuckers facades, they just a mirage, right?
Gm
I said these fuckers facades, they just a mirage, right?
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Tell me that they love me, know damn well that they don't give a fuck
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I be on that finger flipping killing shit up in the cut
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That's what's up
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All these bitches out here tryna gas it up
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This is everything I ever wanted, I can't pass it up
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Life changed in a year, couldn't happen fast enough
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"Can I do it like you do it?" That's what they be asking us
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White Benz, black card, bitch better get your plastic up
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Man, this shit is hella hard, but we never acting up
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Live it up, hold on to your dream, don't ever give it up
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Finally had my share of success, and shit, I can't get enough
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Now they know my name through the nation
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Cause my single like that good shit, man, always in rotation
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Now they know Logic for Logic, not through my affiliations
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Stacking profit on profit, from this music I'm making
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Even Jesus had haters, so when you feeling forsaken
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Tell 'em jealous Judases who this is, and man, that'll break 'em
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And bitch I'm still the same
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Dash of auto tune so y'all can feel the pain
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Broke as fuck, back in that basement, not a dollar to my name
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Chasing fame, chasing glory, 'til the day we make a story
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Positive that life ain't mine, bitch you can take that shit to Maury
[Hook]
C
Work so fucking much my greatest fear is I'ma die alone
C
Every diamond in my chain, yeah, that's a milestone
C
People calling me, asking me for money, man
C
The only thing I'mma give you motherfuckers is the dial tone
[Instrumental]
E A D D# C E
[Verse 3]
E C D
(Hello, no one is available to take your call)
D F A# A
I been working hard, I been searching for God
A D F A# A
I been working hard, I been searching for God
A
(Please leave a message after the tone)
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Little brother, this is your sister, you're busy, I get you
A
But I insist you call me back cause I miss you
D
I wish you well, well, I wish you would call
F A# A
Cause lately it feel like I’m just not your sister at all, all
D F
I’m sorry for calling and bawling, I’m all in
A# D
And I feel like I'm falling lately, it feel like my children hate me
F
You tell me I'm beautiful and yet no man wanna date me
A# D#
Haunted by vivid memories of that man who raped me
D A A#
And lately I, I feel more and more like mommy, I know I’m me, but still
D
You always seemed to pick up the phone and somehow I feel
A# D#
Better, but you been answering me lesser and lesser
A D
So I resorted to the pills in my dresser, I'm gone
C A#
And as for - he left and he ain’t coming back
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I hate him and if I see him I swear I tell him that
F A#
No longer cooking crack in my kitchen, cutting an' selling that
D
He broke my heart, that relationship been to hell and back
F A#
I been working hard, I been searching for God
A D
I can feel the Devil around me as they all applaud
F
Promise you won't forget me, that you'll always be with me
A# A
And even when you gone I can call whenever he hit me
D F A# F
Under pressure
D A F A# A
I've been feeling under pressure
[Verse 4]
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Hey, son, this is your father, don't mean to bother
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How are you? Heard you were in town, but I never saw ya
A
Tried to call ya, where are ya?
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In Paris? What a beautiful destination
A# A
To perish right by the Eiffel, come now, please don't be spiteful
D F
Of all my small talk, I think we're overdue a long talk
A# A
When I see kids around the way I say how I'm your dad
D F
It gets me thinking 'bout incredible moments we've had
D# A
And on the real I'm trying so hard not to bug you
D A#
But do you think you could stop rapping about my drug use?
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I'm two years clean, no longer a fiend
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Yeah, I'm 57, but I feel 19
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And I love you I swear, Bobby, I know you're there
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And when the time is right I know that you gon' take care
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Of anything I need, of your family
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Can I have some tickets to your next show?
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Would you stand with me?
A# A
Can I have some money for my new honey that's hella fine?
D C C#
I forgot to mention I got divorced from your step-mom
A# F
My mind going crazy, but I still look hella calm
D F A# A
Maybe you could tell *beep*
D
I've been feeling under pressure
[Instrumental]
F A# F D D A# A
[Interlude]
D F A# A D
Hey, what's up, bro? This Ralph, I didn't want much, man, just calling to see what's going on.
F A# A
I know you're busy. Dad hit me up, it's his birthday today, but I know you know that.
D D# A# A
Yeah, he calling, he be tryna introduce me to his new chick and stuff, man, I don't know how to handle that.
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I don't wanna tell him like nah, I ain't trying to meet her off top, you know.
A# A D
So what you think I should do? Text me, I know you're busy, dawg.
D# C# A# A
But he been calling me saying he wanna come down, he wanna bring his new chick and
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Brenda's like "damn, he really tryna rock out with his new chick" cause you know we all talk to Debbie.
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But I don't know, I don't know how to tell him this shit so just hit me back whenever you got the time, man,
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I know there's more shit on your plate. You ain't gotta hit me, dawg, but if you do I'd appreciate it.
A D F A# A
When you back, love you, do your thing. Swag RattPack all day, boy. Alright, nigga
[Verse 5]
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Yeah, dear family, I'm so sorry that I've been distant
A# F
Everything changed in an instant, my time has been inconsistent
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I know that you been insisting, I know that birthday I missed it
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I swore I told my assistant, but I guess my mind is in another place
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Thoughts often in another world, I started seeing another girl
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It fell through, man, what a world
Gm A# G# F
But I'm so focused on my craft, on employing my staff
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Such a perfectionist, I can't even finish this draft
Gm G# F
This letter to the ones I love, the ones that I miss
A# D
Brothers and sisters that hit me up just to reminisce
F A#
Meanwhile people outside of my blood asking for favors
A D
I don't owe you a fucking thing, you best switch your behavior
F A#
Truly remarkable how I barely know you, but somehow owe you
A
When you don't even know 'bout the shit I go through
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We ain't spoken in a while, tell me sister, how your child?
A D
Come now, girl, give me a smile, come on, girl, don't do me foul
F A#
Sorry I ain't call before, but I'm calling you right now
C D
I heard that you was popping E, stop resorting to the vowel
F A#
How my mama, how she doing, does she know what I'm pursuing?
D
I ain't talk to her in years, that relationship she ruined
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But sometimes I wake up and wonder just what the fuck I'm doing
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They say family is everything, I swear that shit the truth
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I should spend it all with y'all, but I spend it in the booth
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This is everything I love, this is everything I need
F A#
Never sacrifice this feeling even though my heart it bleed
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This is everything I love, everything I need
F A# A
Never sacrifice this feeling even though my heart bleed
F A# A
Under pressure
D A F A# F
I've been feeling under pressure
[Interlude]
D F A# A
Hey, son, I'm sorry I missed your call today, but I was in an AA meeting.
D F A# A
A friend of mine was celebrating four years so I couldn't get you right then.
A
And then when I did call you weren't able to answer or whatever.
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Just wondering how things are going. Jenn and I aren't together anymore.
A
Living on my own, you know. Anyway, the whole family, even the family that you don’t know,
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my sisters and your aunts that you've never met are very proud of you. Your cousins just love you too.
A
Anyway, son, I love you, I just want you to know that. And just keep grinding, you know.
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And I don't wanna hear you joining the Illuminati cause then I gotta kill ya. I love you, son, bye