[ti:No Matter What]
[ar:T.I.]
[al:Paper Trail]
[00:-2.00]T.I. - No Matter What
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[00:26.00]
[00:26.31]Never have you seen in ya lifetime
[00:29.45]A more divine southern rapper with a swag like mine
[00:33.01]Facin all kinda time but smile like I’m fine
[00:36.48]Brag with such passion and shine without tryin
[00:39.72]Believe me, pains a small thing to a giant
[00:43.01]I was born without a dime, out the gutter I climbed
[00:46.23]Spoke my mind and didn’t stutter one time
[00:49.39]Ali said even the greatest gotta suffer sometime
[00:52.68]So I huff and puff rhymes, lyrics so sick with it
[00:55.98]Set the standard in Atlanta how to get get get it
[00:59.37]So you up and coming rappers wanna diss, just kill it
[01:02.77]I’m officially the realest, point blank, period
[01:06.12]Whether I still live in the hood or just visit
[01:09.27]Whatever you can do in the hood I done did it
[01:12.55]That’s why the dope boys and the misfits feel it
[01:15.81]This still the city long as tip live it, listen
[01:19.07]
[01:19.46]I ain’t dead (nah) I ain’t done(nah)
[01:22.05]I ain’t scared(of what), I ain’t run(from who)
[01:25.35]Still I stand (yeah)
[01:27.23]No matter what VA here I am No matter what remember
[01:31.97]I ain’t break(never), I ain’t fold(never)
[01:35.05]They hate me more(so?)
[01:36.78]Yeah I know, here I go
[01:39.80]No matter what shortie, here I go
[01:43.23]No matter what shortie
[01:45.16]
[01:45.96]You let the blog sites and the magazines tell it
[01:48.89]I’m showed to be jail til 2027
[01:52.06]Rather see me in the cell then
[01:53.84]Instead of this new McLaruen
[01:55.45]God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven
[01:58.73]So even tho it’s heavy, the load I will carry
[02:01.97]Grin and still bear it, win and still share it.
[02:05.36]Apologies to the fans, I hope you can understand it
[02:08.51]Like a change in direction, even when you ain’t planned it
[02:11.90]All you can do it handle it, worst thing you can do is panic
[02:15.06]Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity manage
[02:18.40]To conquer, every obstacle, make impossible possible
[02:21.80]Even when winning illogical, losing is still far from optional
[02:25.11]Yeah they wanna see you shot up in the hospital
[02:28.50]But when life throws you punches,
[02:30.37]block and counter like a boxer do
[02:31.85]Been locked inside this casa too long, I did a song
[02:34.85]To make it known that the king lives on Pimpin
[02:37.86]
[02:38.17]I ain’t dead (nah) I ain’t done(nah)
[02:41.03]I ain’t scared(of what), I ain’t run(from who)
[02:44.29]Still I stand (yeah)
[02:46.08]No matter what VA here I am No matter what remember
[02:51.04]I ain’t break(never), I ain’t fold(never)
[02:54.12]They hate me more(so?)
[02:55.79]Yeah I know, here I go
[02:58.93]No matter what shortie, here I go
[03:02.60]No matter what shortie
[03:04.38]
[03:05.30]Even in solitude, there’s still no hotter dude
[03:08.30]I show you how to do, what you do, you ain’t gotta clue
[03:11.66]All you do is follow dudes, sound like a lotta dudes
[03:14.76]I’ll weather whatever storm, make it out without a bruise
[03:18.21]I understand why, now when my hands tied
[03:21.67]They take shots cause if I’m out there it’s a landslide
[03:24.95]But revenge is best served as a cold dish
[03:28.17]And suckas will get served better know this
[03:31.66]Guess it was understood, for me it was over with
[03:34.70]But I don’t quit, if you ain’t noticed yet
[03:38.20]They couldn’t wait to say goodnight shorty
[03:40.91]So they can try to rhyme, act and look like shorty
[03:44.27]Go get a beat from toomp, and make a hook like shorty
[03:47.52]Before ya know it I’m back what it look like shorty
[03:50.86]I lost my partner and my daughter in the same year
[03:54.62]Somehow I rise above my problems and remain here
[03:58.14]Yeah, and I hope the picture painted clear
[04:01.20]If your hearts fill with faith then you can’t fear
[04:04.61]Wonder how I face years and I’m still chillin