Paperwork (feat. Pharrell)

(Paperwork) Don't do no business until you check his (Paperwork)

And if all else fails, I just hope that this (Paperwork)

Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof

Everything got a cost, they gone need something on you (Paperwork)

A-T-L, Westside, that's the only home I know

In '85, me and Uncle Quint used to ride 'round in the big Bronco

Took me up to Charles Disco, daytime

Set me me down at the bar where I drank Shirley Temple

Till he walked out with a bag and we got back in the car

"What you wanna be", he asked, "When you grow up big, kid?"

I just wanna be like you, ridin' 'round town gettin' bread

We shot a couple 'Lac, couple summer pass, Uncle Quint ain't nowhere to be found

Later we learned, that someone ratted him out, for that reason, ten years he won't be around

(Paperwork) Don't do no business until you check his (Paperwork)

And if all else fails, I just hope that this (Paperwork)

Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof

Everything got a cost, they gone need something on you (Paperwork)

Picture me in '93, I'm the only man I see

Fresh up off the porch lookin' for a drop Porsche and a fake I-D

Introduce me to the crack game, rap game was the furthest from my mind

Had a notebook full of rhymes and a pocket full of crack rock dimes

Time on my side, lil .45 in my jeans

Open fire if you seem to be blockin' my dreams

Yessir, welfare, food stamps, section eight, me and ma lived in the trap

I said fuck school, it holdin' me back, I wanna bankroll, chasin' after that

(Paperwork) Don't do no business until you check his (Paperwork)

And if all else fails, I just hope that this (Paperwork)

Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof

Everything got a cost, they gone need something on you (Paperwork)

Look at me, at seventeen, livin' on my own, peddlin'

Quarter ki, now and then sellin' weed, tokin' too, caught my first felony

That's one of many that were to follow, drinkin' Henney up out the bottle

Told a child I think I'm bein' followed, family don't think I'll live to see tomorrow

Plenty have a story like mine, know many of you had a little nine

Know many of you did a little dirt, too many of us did a little time

Wake up, ten years of your life passed

When you get your cake up, don't it seem like that when the feds on your ass passin' out

(Paperwork) Don't do no business until you check his (Paperwork)

And if all else fails, I just hope that this (Paperwork)

Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof

Everything got a cost, they gone need something on you

If you think that you high, baby, look above you

It's drones in the sky, there's nothing you could do

So left, two, three, snap, right, two, three, snap

Don't get serious now, it's too late for that 'cause they got

Time on my side, lil .45 in my jean

Open fire if you seem to be blockin' my dreams, yessir

(Paperwork) Don't do no business until you check his (Paperwork)

And if all else fails, I just hope that this (Paperwork)

Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof

Everything got a cost, they gone need something on you (Paperwork)