Paperwork
by T.I.

Album: Paperwork (2014)
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  • (Paperwork) don't do no business
    Until you check his (paperwork)
    And if all else fails, I just hope that this
    (Paperwork) wanna swing Bentley door
    Blow smoke through the roof
    Everything got a cost
    They gone need something on you (paperwork)

    Atl, Westside, that's the only home I know
    In '85, me and Uncle Quint used to ride around in the big Bronco
    Took me up to Charles' Disco, Daytime, set me down at the bar
    Where I drank Shirley Temple 'til he walked out with a bag
    And we got back in the car
    What you wanna be he asked?
    When you grow up big head?
    I just wanna be like you
    Ridin' round town gettin' bread
    We shared a couple laughs, couple summer pass
    Uncle Quint ain't nowhere to be found
    Later we learn that someone ratted him out
    For that reason ten years he won't be around

    (Paperwork) don't do no business
    Until you check his (paperwork)
    And if all else fails, I just hope that this
    (Paperwork) wanna swing Bentley door
    Blow smoke through the roof
    Everything got a cost
    They gone need something on you (paperwork)

    Picture me in '93
    I'm the only man I see
    Fresh up off the porch
    Lookin' for a drop Porsche and a fake ID
    Introduce me to the crack game
    Rap game was the furthest from my mind
    Had a notebook full of rhymes
    And a pocket full of crack rock dimes
    Time on my side, lil' .45 in my jeans
    Open fire if you seem to be blocking my dreams, yessir
    Welfare, food stamps
    Section eight, me and Ma lived in the trap
    I said fuck school, it holdin' me back
    I wanna bankroll, chasin' after that

    (Paperwork) Don't do no business
    Until you check his (paperwork)
    And if all else fails, I just hope that this
    (Paperwork) wanna swing Bentley door
    Blow smoke through the roof
    Everything got a cost
    They gone need something on you (paperwork)

    Look at me, at seventeen
    Livin' on my own, peddlin'
    Quarter ki, now and then sellin' weed
    Tokin' too, cost my first felony
    That's one of many, that were to follow
    Drinkin' Henney up out the bottle
    Told a child I think I'm bein' followed
    Family don't think I'll live to see tomorrow
    Plenty have a story like mine
    Know many of you had a little nine
    Know many of you did a little dirt
    Too many of us did a little time
    Wake up, ten years of your life passed
    When you get your cake up
    Don't it seem like that
    When the Feds on your ass passin' out

    (Paperwork) don't do no business
    Until you check his (paperwork)
    And if all else fails, I just hope that this
    (Paperwork) wanna swing Bentley door
    Blow smoke through the roof
    Everything got a cost
    They gone need something on you (paperwork)

    If you think that you high, baby look above you
    It's drones in the sky, there's nothing you could do
    So left, two, three snap
    Right two, three snap
    Don't get serious now it's too late for that 'cause they got
    Time on my side, lil .45 in my jean
    Open fire if you seem to be blocking my dreams, yessir

    (Paperwork) Don't do no business
    Until you check his (paperwork)
    And if all else fails, I just hope that this
    (Paperwork) wanna swing Bentley door
    Blow smoke through the roof
    Everything got a cost
    They gone need something on you (paperwork) Writer/s: Clifford Harris, Pharrell Williams
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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