Sunday, February 5, 2012

#DRAKEWEEK Verse of the Day: Drake - "Light Up"

"Triple entendre, don't even ask me how..."




Today, we're on to Thank Me Later, and the focus is his duet with Hovi Hov.



I've been up for 4 days
Getting money both ways
Dirty and clean, I could use a glass of Cold Spades
Rolexes, chauffeurs, and low fades
I keep thinking how young you can die from old age
They always tell me no one is working as hard as you
And even though I laugh it off man it's probably true
Cuz while all of my closest friends out partying
I'm just here making all the music that they party too
But party on, party on, all night n-gga
I got these new rappers nervous prom night n-gga
I grow tired of these f-cking grown man liars
Story tellers, they aint even need a camp fire
Uhh, but I just wanna tell the truth
Before one of these haters load a couple shells and shoot
This sh-t feel like when Fredro Star was in sunset park stunting hard in his yellow goose
Ya, and I'ma motherf-cking missed target
But a target none the less, and I just started
Was that directed at moi?
Cant be, they must be talking to themselves Hov, hands free
Yeah, and I'm just filling up this daily planner
Getting busy cuz im a star, no spangled banner
Jealous dudes get to talking in their music
And I just say I wrote it for your girlfriends Kelsey Grammar
Yah, that’s what life becomes when you doing you
Welcome to Hollywood don’t let this town ruin you
And if you pillow talking with the women that are screwing you
Just know that she gon tell another n-gga when she through with you
Don’t get impatient when it takes to long
And drink it all even when it taste too strong yeah
I gotta feel alive, even if it kills me
Promise to always give you me, the real me


This right here is the perfect distillation of what Thank Me Later was. And a Sunset Park reference? Beautiful.


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