POWER (Clean)

POWER (Clean) - EARTHGANG/CeeLo Green/Nick Cannon

Lyrics by：Elan Parker/Olu Fann/Thomas DeCarlo Callaway/Nicholas Scott Cannon/Taji Ausar

Composed by：Elan Parker/Olu Fann/Thomas DeCarlo Callaway/Nicholas Scott Cannon/Taji Ausar

N***a be pressed to claim a street with a white man name

I pulled up to put you up on game

What's your focus

What you doin'

What you want out this life

I want power can't never be satisfied with fame

I'm just a man of the people

From 'round the way like the Beatles

I been exposed to new levels

I'm always tryna do better

Roll with my roadies like Cheadle

You say the top can get lonely I say the bottom is lethal

I want the crown I'm medieval

See us gettin' this money they still don't see us as equals

They know that we don't control s**t

Comin' up in small doses

Sometimes I sit back and roll up and I think of my heroes and so it goes

Gain the world lose your soul

Skull and bones Puffy Combs

Too many n***as dead and gone when they just got on

And I'd be lyin' if I said it's nothin' wrong

Sometimes I sit back and roll up and I just think of my heroes and so it goes

Gain the world lose your soul

Skull and bones Puffy Combs

Power power power

Power power power

Put down your God and pick up your Bible

Yeah

Put down your picket signs and pick up your rifle

Brap brap brap brap

Messages conflictin' twistin' on my mental

Yeah

Love on your enemies don't you trust your kinfolk

Ayy f**k them n***as over there man he always need somethin' he always askin' for money

Family feudin' on American dreamboats

Top of the food chain what them people kill for

Uh

Down on your knees and pray up to God or

Stand on your feet and rise above all uh

As a child I was miseducated

I grew up praisin' power guns d**gs misogynation

fire inside blazin' constantly wakin'

Me and my demons engagin' in conversation on how we finna get paid

But through it all I placed my hands on my balls that's a power grab

Yeah

They see a Black man shining they'll shoot him down fast

F**k CEOs takin' your shows and firin' you at night like Nick that's a cannon blast

They'll try to undercut your a*s buy out your cast

Say you crazy as hell Chappelle status

CEOs takin' your shows and firin' you at night like Nick that's a cannon blast

Power power power

S**t that s**t powerful right there haha

Power power power

You know what's the wild s**t

I just named my daughter Powerful

Power power power

And n***as thought I was crazy for that ayy call me crazy

Power power power

'Cause n***as that think they crazy enough to change the world the ones that actually do that s**t

Yo I got you

Powerful

Whether what I do you into or not

Not

I done been to the top

Top

And I done been through a lot

A lot

And if I offend you or not

Not

I might convince you to stop

Stop

See I done been in the room

Room

Watch others bend and assume

Assume

And I got friends in the tomb

Ooh

Boy I done been in the back

Back

And I have witnessed the axe

Axe

What kind of business is that

That

A slave master's business is black

Is black

But I have listened

I done been in a compromising position

I done been in they pockets to get on the playlist I done been in the system

But I hit different

Different

This industry s**t different

Different

It's a major motion picture budget it's lit different

Different

My wrist different

Different

And every woman I'm with's different

Different

Try goin' back to the old you sometime and you'll miss different

Different

But the corporate is morbid

They wanna put a mark in your forehead

A quake in their handshake

But you fake for the fan's sake

But I'm better than average

And I deserve to have this

And I mean mug the men in the suits and ties looking at me like I'm a bad b***h

But I never lost my religion so I'm lucky

When a lot of these other artists right here thinkin' to themselves d**n why don't nobody wanna f**k me

I'm so glad that I'm ugly

Boy stop I'm beautiful

These motherf**kers'll kill you be in the front row of your funeral

Just want you to know

Remain a man every minute of your hour

A lot of these motherf**kers be all plugs with no power

Power power power

Yeah so let the words of my mouth and the meditation in my heart be acceptable in the sight of the most high yeah

Power power power

Pretty much all I'm sayin' is I'ma do what I can and I'ma let God do what I can't

Power power power

S**t I'm just tryna make it 'fore the light change and I fall off like a bike chain it's a minor setback for a major comeback s**t we do everything all black

Power power power

We own that s**t we reppin' for all Blacks that's why they had to give my s**t back powerful