Music Video
Music Video
Credits
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Jeremy Hines
Songwriter
AMBER STROTHER
Lyrics
PARIS STROTHER
Lyrics
Jeffery Jackson
Lyrics
Surajudeen Abebayo
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
5IFTH ELEMENT
Producer
Lyrics
Intro:
What up J, JDI, Jeff Da Illest
Chorus:
We got to wake up just wake up
We got to wake up, the stakes up
We got to raise up, these young bucks
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake uuuup
wake up just wake up
We got to wake up, the stakes up
We got to raise up, these young bucks
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake uuuup
Verse 1:
Uh, I'm bout' ready to flip living in this metropolis
Cause' lately been feeling I'm sinking into something bottomless
It ain't no love in the city it's about profiting
And being rotten for a dollar while working the cotton gin
While people getting sick and thinking pills and vitamins
Gon' help they situation when it's really about dieting
That's factual but that's the thinking they engrain in us
Put pain in us, man are they saving or they playing us
Who knows? That's why togetherness gotta be prevalent
As well as stepping out of ya element cause' that's medicine
And true knowledge. We all driving with different milage
And **** hella fly but ain't qualified to be a pilot
That's just the correlation. That's why I keep a rocket
But praying in private that I just keep it deep in my pocket
Don't wanna pop and turn a hostile **** to a hostage
You ain't rocking with then children then you not shit
Chorus:
Just wake up, just wake up
We got to wake up, the stakes up
We got to raise up, these young bucks
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake uuuup
wake up just wake up
We got to wake up, the stakes up
We got to raise up, these young bucks
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake uuuup
Verse 2:
My sister was just pregnant the father uninterested
I pictured her with a guy that would be fully invested
I chin check em' to send a message I'll be arrested
She made it through no thanks to you and it still is a blessing
So know aggression I backed off so she can learn her lesson
That people shady and they will curve you like a moon crescent
Yes it's evil that's present. **** is creeping up reckless with military weapons
You can leave in a second. Bleeding and breathless
Shopping at target and couldn't call it now you departed at the supermarket
I need someone to solve it. We do a lot of talking
How many losses til the talking really turn to walking
March in the hood before you march up in the oval office
That take some heart and if you leave your child then you is heartless
And don't confuse heartless with any definition of gangsta that's the opposite
Test me if you not with this
Chorus:
Just wake up, just wake up
We got to wake up, the stakes up
We got to raise up, these young bucks
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake uuuup
wake up just wake up
We got to wake up, the stakes up
We got to raise up, these young bucks
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake uuuup
Verse 3:
Rugged or polished. Full or empty wallet
Whatever style just move around from me if you ain't solid
I'm living real modest, so fuck the world logistics
I try to keep that shady shit to maximum distance
I had a dad in my presence so I wasn't a misfit
Not to mention the guidance of mother's intuition
Being brown I look around and that's a low statistic
Yet so simplistic I'm just thankful they played they position
That shit don't make a difference, Cause' I can still get some stitches
By some boys and blue bitches ready and willing to risk it
Black and gifted getting shot up and then they dismiss it
Man that shit got me at the station just ready to lift it
I'm proud of my pigment, I put time in the kitchen
Never convicted I'm just focused on grinding for wishes
They got it twisted I'm just focused on finding the vision
And most importantly my **** I'm minding my business
Chorus:
Gots to wake up, just wake up
We gots to wake up, the stakes up
We got to raise up, these young bucks
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake uuuup
wake up just wake up
We got to wake up, the stakes up
We got to raise up, these young bucks
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake uuuup
Outro:
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake uuuup
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake uuuup
Written by: AMBER STROTHER, Jeffery Jackson, Jeremy Hines, PARIS STROTHER, Surajudeen Abebayo