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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Hit-Boy
Vocals
Big Hit
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Chauncey Hollis
Songwriter
Chauncey Hollis, Jr.
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Hit-Boy
Producer
Omar Grand
Producer
Justin Benford (JayB)
Producer
Jesse Blum
Producer
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[Intro]
Man, can you remember when you was little?
Just chopping it up with your friends
Like, "Watchu wanna be when you get older?"
I wanna be a doctor
I wanna be a lawyer
I wanna be a football player
I wanna be a superstar, something
And we end up selling dope
Gangbangin'
Pimpin'
Doing something, running the streets
Flocking, stealing
We in the wrong business, my ****
[Verse 1]
Shoulda been the police (On me)
So I can live above the law
Shoulda been the police (Police)
So I can lie about it all
Shoulda been the police (Police)
With a license to kill
Shoulda been the police (Why is that?)
So I can butcher **** at will
[Verse 2]
Man, they getting away with bloody murder, my ****
You know what I'm talking about?
They just, they throwing shit at us
They throwing and making up laws for a ****, homie
You don't hear me though
[Verse 3]
Shoulda been the police
Dealing under the table
With gangsters snitching on the payroll
Shoulda been the police
Working for CDC, so I can sell cell phones and trees
Shoulda been the police
Trigger happy and free
So I can gun **** down if they blink
Shoulda been the police
Running red lights on call
Planting evidence
Breaking all the laws
[Verse 4]
I shoulda been the police
So I can take fathers away from they sons
Kill a black man on camera and they can't tell me nothin'
Fuck hoes in my patrol car parked in the alley
Use excessive force no reason and pull out the blammy
Let off a hundred shots, just to find out that he innocent
Be best friends with the judge, giving out wrongful sentences
Come in your house without a warrant and fuck up your premises
Beat somebody ass, catch it on body cam
Cuffed, unarmed and laying on the ground
Give you two black eyes, broken teeth and a broken nose
Just 'cause I want to hit up random hoods and up the pole
Slam you on the hood of my vehicle and fracture your bones
Boys in blue, I ain't talking rolling 60's
Stop and frisking, minorities by the sixteens
Cuff you then drop you off in a rival set if you bang
I shoulda been the police 'cause they biggest gang
[Verse 5]
Dirty motherfuckers
You ain't shit
They just been lynching **** for years, homie
You know what I'm talking about?
I don't know how long ago we gon' go for this bullshit
**** acting like a gopher, I can't go for anything
Fuck that
We gotta learn to put our kids in the, in the force, my ****
Have somebody on our squad, my ****
Somebody that look like us that's really for us
Gotta spread our wings
Everybody can't be singers
And professional football players and basketball players, my ****
Gotta do like the migos, like the, like the woods, my ****
Slide up into congress, my ****
Slide up under here, you know, be a police, my ****
Be a CDC officer, look out for your people's, my ****, like they do
On me, on God in heaven, ****
Ain't no way in the world we should be doing this bad, ****
We got all these rich motherfuckers
All these black millionaires and billionaires, ****
You know what I'm saying? Y'all **** just in the way
Y'all pawns and puppets, ****, you know what I'm saying?
You scared them motherfuckers gon' snatch all your riches
You know what I'm saying?
You gon' be a regular petty ass ****, just like, like you was before you got that chili, ****
Do something for your people, ****
[Outro]
Watchu wanna be when you grow up?
A superstar
Written by: Chauncey Hollis