Hard In The Paint ft. Speech, 1 Love, Numonics, Sly5thAve & Matthew J. Ruys Lyrics

Hip Hop had come full circle

It started with the gangs in New York

And ended in the gangs of LA

But just at that moment

Along came a new force in Hip Hop

From where you'd least expect it

Arrested Development lead by Speech

Emerged from the cloud of dirt

On a Georgia dust track

With some southern fried hip hop

And the funk of redemption

And the grammy goes to

Go head bruh

Tennessee Arrested Development

They said our songs was more singing and less hip hoping

Now days I say its more corporate run than Disk jocking

Oriville Reddinbacher

The more corn

The more popping

While I was busy chart topping

The only toppins you was doing was for

Pizza shopping

So many people have never tried anything but they still knock it

Industry closing doors on me But I'm Still knocking

Finicky posers supposedly got me with nil options

But I see different optics

Palm trees deep in the Tropics

Wifey bikini clad & super bad

Dark chocolate skin its decadent to even look at that

Much less taste it

Angel food cake hips

Worshipping her beautiful backside like its Sacred

We do this husband wife thing like its Ape *ish

We share traits with apes bout 98 percent

She said I do, I said I cherish you

Cuz you're my everything

Ninety-eight degrees

HOTNESS - feel the heat

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man naw I ain't, messing around

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man no

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man naw I ain't, messing around

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man no

Messing around

Messing around

No I ain't

I'm in your town

In your town

Hard in the paint

Messing around

Messing around

No I ain't

Taking you down

Taking you down

They said our songs was more singing

And less hip hoping

Lets call it singing

We still harder than you

You off topic

Stop it

I embrace melody

But not WAP hits

So now keep telling me

Who is more compellingly in line

With what Hip hop is

Three decades long strong songs not pop hits

Blasting off on the powers that be just like a rocket

Yeah we rock it

Fans they cop it

With ancient wisdoms

Like Egyptians

The christian coptics

Money and nonsense

In every way a profit

When you hop in the bandwagon

And talk about us

Like a hot potato

Drop it

The pain facts is you act

Like you in the cock pit

But you cant be

Cuz its only me

I look to try left and my right

I see clouds in my horizon

Future is bright

Ready to fight like Mike Tyson

I'm Luther with the Jheri curl

Single minded like an unmarried girl

For real

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man naw I ain't, messing around

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man no

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man naw I ain't, messing around

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man no

Messing around

Messing around

No I ain't

I'm in your town

In your town

Hard in the paint

Messing around

Messing around

No I ain't

Taking you down

Taking you down

Hard in the paint like Shaq

Hard in the paint like Penny

We go harder than Jack

We go harder than Kenny

Hard in the paint like Pat

Hard in the paint like Remy

Ain't got no purple pack

Just some Runtz and some Henny

Only blunts and a semi

A couple stunts in a Hemi

I just want to be trendy

So I listen intently

Man these fakers ain't friendly

All this smiling offend me

Cause their only pretending

While I'm strongly ascending

Hard in the paint like crack

Look how it left my city

Broken, grimy and gritty

Times as hard as Rum Nitty

Somewhere shiny and spiffy

Gucci, Prada and Fendi

In the drive thru at Wendy's

In a burgundy Bentley

Years if writing, plus twenty

Thinking they would commend me

Man, these verses are curses

My own families against me

Before I'm riding in hearses,

Their researching my history

Trying to find all the answers,

To reasons why they resent me

It's s my effortless flow

That's the source of their envy

Its AD

One Love

They study us plenty

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man naw I ain't, messing around

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man no

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man naw I ain't, messing around

Going hard in the paint

No more messing around man no

No more messing around no 'we hard here in the paint

No more messing around no 'we hard here in the paint

Hard in the paint