Verse 1:
So you pick out your lane, and turn Kramer with the room if they get you some paint, with no open mics for you to go blow your lights, but shit they don't hear you anyway they just listen for names, mine is in a lane that I ain't ever get to widen, but I could barely fit I almost had to whip beside it, cause duke I wasn't put here just to settle for the echoes, I'm more so in sprinter trucks and dinner with the Blige's, but still around the way, around the corner by the projects, them youngins on the reach is Cardi B'ing with them rockets, or calling up Maria for a liter, maybe white, maybe tan, signing out like G&B as far as product, the girl and the boy, G&B, see the logic?, if we debating Grammys 'least we even on the target, I'm targeting a dollar and a way to make it dance, the irony of playing yin and yang with all this profit, the spoils to the victor
Hook:
Spoils to the victor, spoils to the victor,
Zipping up a bag, and the bag a lil richer,
Zipping up a bag, and the bag a lil richer,
Said they Tryna aim it at
Whoever fit the picture,
Maybe y'all, uh, maybe us,
Maybe y'all, uh, maybe us,
Maybe y'all, uh, maybe us,
But do believe, that when we up,
It's spoils to the victor
Verse 2:
Do believe, easy as the truth can be, Mookie from the jersey to the J's, all beautifully, 40 and a mule or whatever if we do agree, easy as a stop & frisk turning to a shooting spree, DT's jumping out the back is nothing new to me, truthfully, I be more surprised when they ain't moving me, said to zip a bag without Tryna fit a bag like get to running with your bag or you'll be running to your eulogy, graphic, pardon me, let's just make a note of that, snapchat etiquette, like I ain't mean to show you that, we be in the crowd that they seem to be around, so if it's cars to audience, then seat us where Oprah at, and don't a day go by, that we ain't Tryna blow by, complicated repeats, all of this is bow tie, first words we knew, buy low, throw high, write it in your prayers baby, know why?, spoils to the victor
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