Verse 1:
One time for the time sticking beside me,
wouldnʼt count me out when it counted me in the lobby,
where counting will lead you into the fold like origami,
it couldʼve overlapped and then chose to au revoir me,
Like yo, when you be talking bonjour to a Mazi,
it seems to intervene and encores to a homi,
like anybody can get it so, nothing donʼt surprise me,
‘cause anybody can get it so, hopefully you got me,
Shout to Gates and Greene, in betweenʼs where you find me, and shout to Jamaica Queens, “Margheritaʼs” is a body,
easier to spot me, but I ainʼt never mind so,
I ainʼt step aside I just speak it in tsunamis,
Pay me no never mind, I just stayed in the design
until they was tryna trace me or pay me to oblige,
whole fist in the air not a shade was a mirage,
and true to what you would hear I decorated the garage,
Iʼm more Belafonte when it come to the front line,
but still dressed in mortgage money,
like “what else you wanted from me?”,
except when they calling for me,
they took in outta towners but couldnʼt take the corner from me, I took it to a five bedroom mini mansion in a cul de sac, prestigious subdivision, I brought my son to that,
did it off of inspiring who ainʼt cut from that,
says a lot about you if you canʼt fuck with that
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Hook:
One time,
One time for the aura thatʼs in the groove, One time for you coming up off the stoop One time,
One time for the horns fitting the mood, One time,
One time for it all, through and through
Verse 2:
One time we was being followed by 12,
quoting “Ready To Die” so we was probably twelve,
boys pulled us over like we had product to sell,
a week later my man was popping with crills,
He said “if they already assume Iʼm tryna deal,
then why not though?”, custies said “arigato”,
I had 100 sixteens written ‘bout how my block go,
by 16 I needed room so I forgot those,
Now fast forward 20 more and where the top goes,
is where that sent me, word to who resent me,
and word to who be like “your words?, they represent me”, whether bidding or tryna tie up an ending,
All coded for whoʼs in the scrimmage, so if you didnʼt get it then you should be lucky that you didnʼt live it,
doe or die til the end of that time
you thought you wasnʼt given,
and all the Patron that you wasnʼt spilling,
All that I know, if you here with it, then you recognize, being 12 and seeing bells in a detectiveʼs eyes,
Henny still pouring outta me if you step aside,
bought a truck that had room to fit the rep inside
So do the knowledge, do the math and the science,
just because Iʼm relaxed doesnʼt mean that Iʼm compliant, just ‘cause Iʼm in the back doesnʼt mean that I ainʼt eyeing and justʼcause I got class doesnʼt mean that I ainʼt firing
