Lil B - I'm Gay (I'm Happy) Album Lyrics

We not gon' stop from the top to the bottom
Lil B, mental, you know, niggas is trapped in prison
It's time to live our life, mental, physical, all that

Mental slavery
Niggas be hanging off the trees in the woods, like the hood
It's more than Martin Luther King, fighting for a dream
Watch me go against everything you believe
They disrespect you tryna spark a dream
Everybody knows it's easy to fail but it's harder to think, think twice
I'm nicer than grandma with a cup of iced tea
You see me, I got ice like Ice
Serving them ice the same color small mice
Leaving my office, he gon' pay a small price
My advice: get out of the game
They giving me chains, new car and they taking my chains
Never with chains, the chains fastened
I'm switching the lanes, I got away, got caught in the game
You always complain about what you ain't got
Third world countries ain't even got sidewalks to walk on
200 people on the bus
Every busta moves harder than I ever thought
You never lost before you ever won
I never won, I'm still hungry, forever young
My soul hurt but I still move on, deep feelings aside
Feel like I'm a clone, I'm trapped in the USA
Where work is your home, no work, you ain't gon' talk on the phone
I've been born in the war, I grew up
I seen more, ever since the 28th floor
Looked down, I never seen more poverty before
From the top you see even more, I fight for the even draw
Before you even draw I'm already gone
With the heat drawn, my gun like Miami Heat, you're gone
Focused like Steve Nash, I pick my brain apart
Think about breathing last
See that casket, it's so close, it's like I'm a basket, go away
Step back faster, like your girlfriend just dumped him faster
The graveyard waiting, trying to stay away from the hating, whatever
F*ck the locations, trespassing, never close those pages
Never wanna cheat man, the thief's outrageous
Never been a bad farmer, if you put your heart in it,
Who gonna come up to you?
I dare niggas to say that I'm weak, you uncomfortable
Waiting for everything, man, the people
Like me and you, we gotta
Get one thing together and that thing I don't know
But peace is the first step, pepping your step
I ain't a drug dealer, I'm just a life liver
Like your liver fold like an open river
See between your eyes, I can see the pain
This is for the ones that got away
If you ran away, hope that you stay, stay Based, you feel me?
For real, man they try to take the real people
If you got a good heart, treat yourself like the President
Cause the bag'll suck you right in
Want you to be in the grave right beside them
Because they got a cold, they want you to have a cold
I stick by the cold, I let the story unfold
I say a lot of things, it's been told
I'm not scared, you asshole, at least I lived the dream
My daddy make the cash flow, even if the cast goes, start to lose their family
I buy back their lifespan with any type of money
You got one life: better live it
Can't be a leader if you're scared to make decisions
Living 2Pac and Biggie's visions, Lil B, I'm trapped in prison

Woo! You know we in Berkeley California right now
Riding on the freeway
Passing Emeryville, going through Oakland
Shouts out to Richmond, San Francisco, Lil B

One day to live, cause you living in the moment
The past is the present, the gift is my performance
I'm working for the future, cause I live in a computer
I could tell you things that I've seen
A lot of guns in the streets, saddened dreams
Spacebar, backspace, trace your steps
I'm on the block like Jahvid Best
Smoke a lot of weed, have to calm my stress
With the thought when the money would came
My problems have changed, step back I am not in my chains
Sport back like I'm out the game, I'm out of your lane
Think twice nigga, follow your brain
I've got riches and I act the same
Niggas is lame, I'm too real, you don't want new chains?
I had to open my eyes since I got that fame
Sit back in my partner's office
Nigga laughing, reminiscing, how I took them losses
Then I promise one day, if I take that loss
Take the whole city back, open up that coffin
No sir, I don't believe in Jesus
He was slaved to the world, in the books of preachers
I feel weird cause I go against my own body
Keep it too real, I got a new deal
Niggas is fake, but their money and their coop real
Actually, what's the root of how you feel
No disrespect, I found myself in church,
Paying respect to the Lord, like everyone else
But the picture of the blond hair and blue eyes
Is something that I ain't feeling
I ain't saying that I can't
But I ain't gon' be another slave to the race
And I got friends around the world at 21
This is on my mind, practice forgiveness
With nobody talking when I made the wishes for real, business
Niggas fell down, hopped off those fences
Feel bad because I made mistakes
And still got raped by the system, still forgive 'em
Spend your childhood in the courtroom system
Fell down, nobody gonna pick 'em
No money, no lawyer gonna pick 'em
And just forgive em, leave em to play nigga
Leave em to die, leave em to ride
I'm surprised he alive, for real, you poor you die
And rich get killed cause of the money they got
Man the sports get money while the doctors saving lives can't peel
9 to 5 can't even pay the bills;
We need to manage the money for the builders and plumbers,
The welders and purifiers to pay for their lumber,
I might go to LA for the summer
Venice beach music, open up the thunder, eternal slumber

[Intro:]
Most people are divided up
You know, just had to do this for the...
For the people and the love,
You know, if you don't know who I am by now,
My name is Lil B, shout, shout to the world...
Check me out!

[Verse 1:]
Most people are divided up
Like it's Apartheid
I'm sleeping where the sharks lie
Never see the snake eyes
Unless you f*ckin' with him
Always keep your distance
They won't have your back
But listen to every sentence
Never speak a sentence
You in the BasedGod's vision
And if you walk with it
Then it's a good decision
Don't try to talk a lot
Most people won't listen
You can't talk to yourself
To see the whole damn vision
Let's get it, Lil B!

One love, man
It's just game
I'm spittin' game
Throw it back to the lanes

[Verse 2:]
I'm stepping in the dragon's lair
With smoke in my eyes
I'm not surprised
Hell on Earth, you can't stop them guys
With death on their minds,
You can't stop their rides
With drugs in the car, with the eagle's eyes
Looking out for the cops and the needles, right?
Back then, they was watching and fiening
Like in the hood, dope man serving Jesus... life
No loyalty, no respect, no honesty
Honestly I'll move away
But niggas going to say that you never lived there.
New Kids On The Block putting new bids there.
New jails with new beds there.
They waiting to put some new kids there
My niggas thought they'd never get theirs
Passed jail, f*ck it, never lived there
Man I'm the rawest, it's Lil B

I'm spitting game
Let's get it, one live to live

[Verse 3:]
Please tell me who's your boss
Cause I'm a tell them that their dude is lost.
And you gonna feel like triple the cost.
Of course I must be dumb, how I get this far?
I must be real wack, how I get this car?
Niggas wanna be famous, why reachin' so far?
Can't see through, it's like a soul
Metaphoric to the Earth, I turn anything to gold
You waited too long, dudes, your dreams is old
Better live now and go feed your soul
Better late than never, go collect my cheddar
Give my mom a big check, she gonna be straight forever.
You ain't feeling me dog
My bank account was zero, you ain't feeling me dog
But I gotta be a role model
If he wrote all above
Lil B, brand-da-dang, swag!

Let's get it
One life to live

Been a long time coming
A lot of pain a lot of triumph
Now I've come to the point where I'm happy

You could break me out the strait jacket
This hip-hop is just play action
I switch off and I keep smashing
I'm a legend, f*ck the rap-off
They say I can't do my thing
I'm a build my own lane
You come in, you get ran over
But damn, you sober
I'm the god emcee like Hova
But I'm on another level and my grind is over
I'll put the heat on your back like you're sitting in Rovers
And he always prayed to God I'm just bringing him closer
Feel like I'm doing a bid and my mind in Angola
You be food, then I'm cool, they tried to get over
I stopped picking up my phone, they won't get any closer
They watch my every step because I'm living in motion
Seen it in the hood, I can't, feeling is open
They ask for my money, every other day like I'm asking for something
But when I had nothing they was laughing
They told me that I'd never make it rapping
It brings tears to see I'm on top, but I told you I'm a make it
14, I was living like my life was the pavement
And I wanted to die, couldn't nobody save me
Now I save my own self and I'm on and I'm famous
And I deal with the haters
Ain't nobody gonna take away what I built
F*ck the death threats, small impostors
But really got the love, but they just choosing that option
When I started to live better, they started to hate
I still got the same brain, that caught all the cases
I've still got the same eyes and seen all them places
But I ain't never been faking
And, it's not a game, it's not the Trail Blazers
Throwing shots but we dying
And the rap game
It's the slave trade
No time for meditation
Turn into robots
The Devil is money
It's not even human
The people die for a piece of paper
It's so stupid
Man, live however you do it
I guarantee, you see your life as a child
And make you who you are,
Just make sure that you smile
People are dying every day, might as well look at me now
There was hating, but I never stopped
I wanted to drop, but Based God
He gave me strength from the veins
I gotta really notice my chance
Make history, man
Three back, I was feeling like "damn! "
You don't know how I felt
When I was washing my hands
Off that filth that was around
I'd never be down
One the streets I'm gone
I never be around
Because the hood is a lie
Man, you better wake up
Before you're dead or surprised
I'm just trying to save myself man
For real, but they trapped in the middle
Don't wanna go to school
Because the teacher's too simple
I just wanna know where I come from
Did you tell me, the truth, before I'm gone and dissolve
Man, it's connected to the woods
The wilderness is my home
The world say I'm bad because of my color
But they don't get the fact that I say that I love you
People give the option to hustle
Just take it and, I swear to God if you're willing to struggle
And once you pass the bottom you gonna get to the top
It's a lot of hate up in the world, just make sure that you watch

[Verse 1:]
You can have your case, then
Praying on my downfall
The game got me f*cked up
Got to f*ck around y'all
Straight through - zoom - like a NASCAR
Visions, don't talk about decisions
I was the last one to get this
Last one to get that
Kept my head up when it rained
Through my coat-back
I'm a lumberjack,
I'm chopping trees to the game.
Not talking about the plants, talking drug fame.
You gonna see in jail, the criminals never safe
This came from the heart
Don't look at my past
I just left it in this dark
I could start from scratch
Multiply the truth: it's all facts
You can deny I'm great, you don't rap
If you say I ain't real
Then you don't trap
From waiting at the bus stop
To riding all-black
If God's real, then why my friend have to die?
Sometimes I've just got to ask: why?

[Verse 2:]
Back-to-back, cars move after the fact
It's like my life action-packed
Memories just fade in, caved in
I wrote this already, it's like a double-take
But I will never stop my love
You can't infiltrate, one in a billion
Like Young Jeezy feeling like one in a million
I get the chance, I work harder than ever
Anybody talking down, bitch we in it together
You seem to forget, you not gonna live forever
Why you cop that ride and you spend that cheddar?
Stack up your money, that's word to mother
Lot of people talking down man, living to maintain
My life not made, I'm in the hood like ant-spray
Words could kill. "Why they call his album that? "
And "How the f*ck he feel? "
Bitch I do what I want
And the tracks is I'll
Remember Lil B, bitch
That's that dude that's real
Let's get it

[Barack Obama:]
That's what's happening in America right now
Change is what's happening in America

[Intro:]
We made history for the first time ever
Like I said, things'll never be the same, you know
Keep your head up, one love and one life to live

[Hook: x2]
I'm a ask how you doing today
We gon' win somehow, someway
The world going through a critical change
I just want us to be okay

[Verse:]
Now I sit back dreaming a dream, a new being a spirit.
Coming from my heart I think you should listen
I came from the top and hit the bottom
I never came from the bottom, that's just a facade
Like seeing water in the desert, this song is depressing
But it's uplifting, holding on to my spirit
I'm so grateful when you hear it
It's so live when you quote my lyrics
And the sun is coming out, chains is dead
You're running in a race, just pace yourself
Love for ease, I live for it, I'm a take it and leave
Loving my seed, all the new kids, fathers is poppin'
Just promise one thing, it's on the option
Bring us together, now or never
Part through the crowds just to see the weather
I got enough room to take us together
More real friends: let's get this cheddar
Last but not least, the cheddar
I'm down for whatever, don't forget I'm down forever
This is my letter to my fans of 2011
Things have changed, and I do accept it
This is Lil B
We gonna live forever, Based World

[Outro:]
Yeah, there is a change but you know... it's not bad
Let's live this one life we got

Don't worry about the mishaps
Chin straps, headlock
We all got the same rise
We all got the same drop
2011: we all in the same pot
Make a choice, you have a voice
Back then, we was parted by the masters
Gave us religion so we couldn't move past it
In reality it's all about the Earth
People turn their back
Because the money and it's worth
Now I will never work just to work
People dying every day
Just to buy a t-shirt
And why college is so expensive?
People wanna learn, but there's always some fences
I tell you like that
I move with forgiveness
People always wanna cut
But not with precision
I guess that we're gifted
This is one life to live and I'm a live it
F*ck the critics, I'm happy: Lil Bars

Lil Bars: party and no party
People still rocking
It's Young Based God, no way to stop me
Stop with the hate
Tell them cowards watching
Signed a couple checks
And I ain't talking deposits
This is change for
This is wannabe gangstas
People that get lost
That walks with the strangers
Had no friends
I was looking for an angel
Wanted the floor map
But I ain't had no angles
Now every time I see the flag
I salute to the thugs
The flag salutes back
That's America for us
People have died just to speak for the freedom before us
Now we bleeding for more stuff
People watch over
There's clones in the hood
Everybody is a soldier
And everybody with this shit
But don't nobody wanna teach nobody
Wanna get sick, but be caught for the crime
That's why I keep it so real
Life after life, we might not talk
But I'm fine...
I'm at peace, one love man, I fixed that beef
Can't nobody do it like that boy Lil B

That's real shit
You know
You tell em muthaf*ckas to sample that...

[Goo Goo Dolls Sample]
Don't want the world to see me
Don't think that they'd understand
Everything's meant to be broken
Want you to know who I am

[Hook:]
I see myself in the mirror, but I don't see nothing
If you understand what I'm seeing please tell me something
When you black, the media make you wonder why
I need to learn...

[Verse 1:]
My lifetime came from struggle
All I've seen is what I follow
My skin color, automatic transaction
I'm already classified, no second chance
Taught to feel nappy hands, little grade
Why can't I sag when it's just a style
Grown beard, black hoodie, and I'm all good
People judge before they even know me
Stare at me, don't know I'm lonely
Outside's front these stares from police
And I get the bad rap because another man that just looks like me
Think life's a movie like Spike Lee
Too cool like Ice T
Yeah, I move with Life's Peace, and he move with the gun piece
So there's no peace
I gotta go to the hood, all I see is
Divided, the freshest schizophrenics
Men pimping women, people losing vision
Given choices before she started living
I hate myself

[Goo Goo Dolls Sample]

[Hook:]
I see myself in the mirror, but I don't see nothing
If you understand what I'm seeing please tell me something
When you black, the media make you wonder why
I just need my history, because I hate myself

[Verse 2:]
It makes me sad to see pimping like I'm at a battle with my surroundings
Everybody do it, but not really
And I couldn't imagine my momma
Universal knowledge is karma
I see young girls hanging off the corner
And they searching for love in the wrong space
Gave her mind to a pimp, now he's changing faces
Sometimes I just wish I could trade places
I hate myself for being taught the roots of the hood
Which don't matter, no respect and no love
That got jailed for the real thugs
And I'm sorry to all the innocent in prison
You get a second chance when you free or in heaven
I promise if you really love and you watch your steps
Respect everybody, man you will get blessed
Get your point across without violence
The black dying by the gun, I'm tired of crying
I hate myself

[Goo Goo Dolls Sample]

[Hook:]
For real man, this been in my heart for a long time
And if you understand, please tell me something
When you black, the media make you wonder why

[Verse 3:]
I'm ready to give up my old thoughts
I'm a move past what I saw
I'm a do what I want and be happy
I'm not gon' rob or kill to survive
Everything I've seen was a lie
I'm not ready to die, I love myself
I said...
Everything that I've seen was a lie
I'm not ready to die, I love myself
Break that mental

[Outro:]
You know we are free now man
Break that, uh, mental blockage
Don't think too hard, free your mind
That's real life man
I just... you know speak for real
Shit, that really feel real shit, man you know
We all human, we all got questions
You know, I'm designed this way and I got questions
It's all love over here, you feel me?
Like I said man, just livin'

Yeah, but then I hear me tho'
I said I'm ready to give up my old thoughts
I'm a move past what I saw
I'm a do what I want to be happy
I'm not gon' rob or kill to survive
Everything I've seen was a lie
I'm not ready to die, I love myself
But I don't see nothin'
If you hear what I'm sayin' please tell me somethin'
When you-, the media make you wonder why
I need to learn my history, because I hate myself

20k dollars make him bench press
Ima do push ups and never fold over
F*cking with my grind its mine young bitch
Respect my mind all the time press rewind
Its lord, Basedlord
Fast foward we in the big city
And we sleeping in the morgue ask them hoes
Like Lil Wayne said I'm Lil Boss
Want that Wayne bread
Never gone leave my head 2 G's
F*ck with real G's make your face bleed
Real nigga, trill niggas like Pimp C
Speak my mind, because it's free speech
Niggas scared to make a difference
Bitch I'm back for a vengeance
Didn't play much with precision
Learned a few things understand this
Rap like I'm making new dreams
Keep work you still working with practice
Top of the whole atlas
Just to see the package
Question what you really want in life
I'm thinking everyday wrong or right
Right or wrong, two paths don't make it right
Hype a flight just do it boy, we living life
No time to think, cruise control
Autopilot I fell asleep driving
Shady baby born on another island
Life's autopilot, no driving
I can never see what they see
It's like me times three
But I leave and come back OG
That's old rap new money on my
Mind like a nose bleed
As I roll up and I post up
You got tricks up your sleeve?
I'm like so what?
Niggas grow out, like bank account
Click, clear, nigga right there
I got a safe amount keep my head up high
Keep it real high
Because the money in the sky
And it's coming to you i'm telling the truth
Last year I was broke trying
To get in the booth
Next year I'm on tour for a cover the few
People said I wouldn't be in but
In my heart I knew i changed the whole world
Just to name a few
One man, one body that's the crazy truth
If you really understand what
Your mind can do you would be uncomfortable
And I'm rising to the top
Nigga see the haters at the top
But I'm on the bottom just watch
I brought myself off the water
Almost drowned in the streets
But I'm now on top floor
F*ck the models in streaks
I got a bad case of legend sickness
Legend status went platinum on the internet
Straight cashin

[Verse 1:]
Why niggas don't keep it real no more?
Leaning on the next man
Trying to get some dough
And I ain't making a diss
This really exists
Last time I made love is
When I wrote this song
People: you saying "B
You should be a preacher"
Like I told em far back
I'm a be a teacher
I told em one day
That we gonna reach it
This is cut down on songs
I don't got no features
Keep my squad close like we [?]
I don't got greedy, man
The fame is enough
And for people trying to hate
Saw my money
Karma is real, and you gotta love it
I could take a few trips in advance
Look! I'm flying to the snow and
I visit the sand, see
Life's real, when you're tied up in Japan man
My face is in the streets
You have my picture in your hand
Let's get it

So many questions I got...

[Verse 2:]
Why bitches don't keep it real no more?
Hopping on the next flight
Just to see you, but she don't know
That the game is played,
Try to say she love me
Naw, you love my fame
Cause real life: you don't know my name
You just know my lane
BasedWorld: it's a gorgeous game
I gained twice
I'm in the game
Y'all's after the catch
I'm in the dip like I'm on the Mets
On TV like I'm on the Nets
Bet I throw bombs like I'm on the Jets
How much I'm worth? I should make you guess
How much I work? It'll make you stress
I work hard like I'm living check-to-check
I made my mind up, I'm coming for respect
Bitch I love this life
I wouldn't trade it for the world
I guess I'm selfish, right?
It's Lil B!

[Verse 3:]
Now I be off like Kim's shit
Two mansion, five cribs
That's that king shit
Got so much money, on the hole that it leaks
Dream is to deal with me
Shit, young man doing what I'm supposed to do.
I can hear the money speak
I suppose it's true...
It said I'm coming soon
But I'm dropping sooner!
Let this shit drop then I cop it sooner
Lil B, you got my back for the love of the music
I appreciate your mind and I appreciate your soul
And that's just my promise
I give you my soul and the music's promised
Only one life, I'm a live it regardless
Only one mic, look at what we started!
Look at me now: how I get so tight
Nigga, day in, day out, bitch I seen that light
Let's go!

There's a lot of shit I'm still waiting for
Still wondering
Just, you know, crying on this notepad

[Verse 1:]
Still waiting on healthcare
Praying on welfare
Gotta take my my hand up
Gotta move my mind in
Spend a lot of time there
Getting on my grind there
Throwing gang signs there
Got a peace of mind there
But I can't leave cause
I know a piece of mine there
People I grew up with
Don't wanna see me shining
So I grew up with a lot of things on my mind, plannin'
People do bad stuff
Wanna stay away from it
Got my mind right
So I won't sleep in the casket
See death around the corner
And life is in the basket
That's left from a woman, cause
The death of a woman
Means one less man
So give respect to the woman
I guess we just looking
If you could see how I see it
It's pain in your eyes, show em
Bleed how I'm bleeding
Just wanna talk, just one thing
Won't forget what you did
Just accept one thing:
I'm still waiting

You know there's so much in my life
I just feel like I'm still waiting
You know what I mean?

[Verse 2:]
You could pick and choose
You could win or lose
You could sink or swim
You could stay or move
Just had to amass
I match the groove
I match the plan
I match the mood
Even though I'm from the hood
I'm a classic dude
Like Nat King Cole
I'm a faster blues
I have the blues, I seen the news
Can't go a while
Without seeing the food
Am I just a judge?
Am I just in love?
With this thing called life
Can I give it a hug?
Can I trust in thugs?
Don't hold no grudge
Niggas love to hate
But don't show no love
And that's old man thinking
If you closed-minded thugging
That's no man's hustle
No house, no home, no car, no budget
No Lord, no gun, but the ladies love him
It's Lil B

I'm still rockin', still grinding for the top
Let the bitch niggas know I won't stop, it's Lil Bars
Yeah, I still hustle from the bottom to the top
Let them muthaf*ckers know I won't stop

[Verse 3:]
The hood feel like the invisible hood
I'm the ghost in the trees
I produce this wood
I rap on the tracks that make the block
Go crazy and the suburbs love me
Word to cousin
Right around the time I was hurting
Struggling, this dude had my back
Gave me motivation
I was asleep on the floor
In the midst of the haze,
Taking trips to the money
Paying for some changes
Things started changing slowly
Had the floor map
Even helped the homies
Got a new ride just to show the homie
Bought my main bitch a flight
Cause she say she's lonely
I don't love her, groupie's a bitch
That's word to Stunna
Shoutout to Birdman, that's word to Stunna
I touch down in the hood
I'm off the flight and blunted
It's Lil Bars, I'm hundreds...

Yeah, I'm a thank you for this trip in advance
This is my last motherf*ckin' chance
I'm still waitin'

Angels Exodus
This for anybody who ever lost somebody
Yo, Mistah FAB bay Area, West Side I see you
Keep your head up, this for you

My brother lost his Momma
I don't know how he made it
I'm just praying that he make it
I know he will
Mistah FAB be in my prayers forever
Nigga, I never die a hater
Start to think about my life
And all the time passing
Can't take nothing back so living with it
Feel gifted for the breath that I'm breathing
Living on borrowed time if you need a reason
Niggas say heaven and hell
But I don't believe it
Just believe in spirit's
Just believe in breathing
Please help me if I walk
The crooked path even
Please help me if I leave
When the pastor speaking
Even though I listen to
Him for the inspiration
I know life real and we separated
But we gotta get together
Before the game's over
RIP all the angels and the fallen soldiers

One time, oh one time, yeah
Give it up for the people we lost
Spread love for the people that's gone
One time, oh one time, yeah
Give it up for the people we lost
Spread love for the people that's gone lil B

The biggest tax seeing the death
Of a family member the mourning process
January to December
Cold nights hell feeling like
Hell in November where's my thoughts
I don't remember even though I look happy
I'm still a beginner
Even though I pray to God i'm still a sinner
One day I'll realize that
This time is precious
No movie, real life living like I'm Precious
Bad food, bad family dealing with depression
A lot of unprotected sex
Didn't learn my lesson please just let me
Life with no judgment
Please let me live my life with no fussing
I already think I'mma die from
The way I'm living i'm by myself eating fast
Food on Thanksgiving
Just a picture of what I'm
Doing on a daily basis
RIP the fallen soldiers now heaven's angels

One time, oh one time, yeah
Give it up for the people we lost
Spread love for the people that's gone
One time, oh one time, yeah
Give it up for the people we lost
Spread love for the people that's gone lil B