T.I. - Paperwork Lyrics
[Hook: Pharrell](Paperwork)Don't do no business until you check his (paperwork)And if all else fails, I just hope that this (paperwork)(?) through the roofEverything got a cost, they gone need something on you(Paperwork)[Verse 1: TI]ATL, Westside, that's the only home I knowIn '85, me and Uncle Quint used to ride around in the big BroncoTook me up to (?) disco, daytime, set me down at the barWhere I drank Shirley Temple 'til he walked out with a bag and we got back in the carWhat you wanna be he ask? When you grow up big kid?I just wanna be like you, ridin' round town gettin' breadWe shot a couple Lac, couple summer pass,Uncle quint ain't nowhere to be foundLater we learn that someone ratted him out,for that reason 10 years he won't be around[Hook: Pharrell][Verse 2: TI]Picture me in '93, I'm the only man I seeFresh up off the porch looking for the drop Porsche and the fake I'dIntroduce me to the crack game,rap game was the furthest from my mindHad a notebook full of rhymes and a pocket full of crack rock dimes[Bridge: TI]Time on my side, lift.45 in my jeanOpen fire if you seem to be blocking my dreams, yessir[Verse 3: TI]Welfare, food stamps, section eight,me and Ma lived in the trapI said ***** school, it holdin' me backI wanna bankroll, chasin' after that[Hook: Pharrell][Verse 4: TI]Look at me at 17, livin' on my own, peddlin' quarter keyNow and then sellin' weed, tokin' too, cost my first felonyThat's (?) follow, drinkin' Henney up out the bottleTold a child I think I'm bein' followedFamily don't think I'll live to see tomorrowPay to have a story like mineNot many you had a little nineNot many and you did a little dirtToo many did a little timeWake up, 10 years of your life pass when you get your cake upDon't it seem like (?) when the Feds on your assPassin' out[Hook: Pharrell][Verse 5: Pharrell]If you think that you high, baby look above youIt's drones in the sky,there's nothing you could doSo left, two, three snapRight two, three snapDon't (?) it's too late for thatCause they got[Bridge: TI][Hook: Pharrell]The two southern legends team up as TI talks about his life growing up over Pharrell's beat.
