You can hug that block all night, it ain't gon' hug you back (Facts)
21 Savage quotes
- Quotes
- 22
- Lyrics
- 15
- Interviews
- 7
Of the 22 lines here, 15 are lyrics and 7 come from interviews. The lyrics keep circling the same ground: 5 are tagged struggle and 4 justice, with 4 of them taken from Nothin New alone. Ocean Drive, Famous and Thug Life supply the before-and-after lines, from eviction notices and riding MARTA to a mother who now has reason to be proud. The interviews, from Rolling Stone, The Breakfast Club and The New York Times among others, are looser: happiness as the measure of success, not caring what anyone says, and the admission that "a lot of it be creative stories".
You was listening to your coaches
I was listening to the vultures
You can build a bear, fuck it, I'm finna build a thot
I used to sell dope, nigga, now I can't vote (Vote)
You can sleep with half the world
Bet you still won't forget me
Ridin' in the foreign, remember ridin' on MARTA
Grind got harder and my mind got smarter
They killed Martin Luther King and all he did was spoke (21)
I feel like describing male friendships is zesty as hell
And goddamn, if everybody was lyrical, everybody would sound the same.
Used to make my mama cry, but now I make her proud
Pain runnin' through my veins
I don't want the fame, I just wanna eat (Ooh)
How many problems you got? (A lot)
How many people done doubted you? (A lot)
The internet ain't gon' help you, understand me
If I didn’t get shot I’d be dead or in jail
I don't care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I'm happy, I'm living my life, and that's what it is.
It's just happiness. Happiness is success to me.
Welcome to the hood, yeah, where niggas dyin' at (Dyin')
Same place where the best chicken gettin' fried at (Uh)
Same place where the police killin', tellin' lies at (Uh)
Treat us like slaves then they lock us up in cages (21)
Young, black, poor, ain't had a father since a baby
They thought I only rapped about murder and pistols (21)
I'm tryna feed my family, I ain't being political (Fuck)
Eviction notices all on the door
Take out trash for some school clothes
I'm the one that the streets chose
Some of it be based off of real life, but a lot of it be creative stories.
If you tell me, I’ll give you 20 million to go stay somewhere you ain’t never stayed, I’d rather be broke. I’ll sit in jail to fight to live where I’ve been living my whole life.