Shine

Just shine your light on the world

Said shine your light on the world

No matter anywhere you go, kid

Shining your light on the world

Don't let the money make you thirsty

Don't even let it be your goal

Just let it come and keep on working

And shine your light on them hoes

Cause I'm the hardest nigga out here

I'd rather die than live while I fear

I know why God sent me down here

To shine my light on them hoes

Hardest nigga out here

I'd rather starve than live while I fear

I feel like God sent me down here

To shine my light on them hoes

Lost in the world when me and my girlfriend meet, bless you

You know they say if you fucked her and she didn't cum

And you came and she fucked you

We squeeze first, nigga these ain't rebuttals

These streets we burst, we dump 'til he jump brooms

Like these numb shoes, in the D where dreams come true

This is the story of a man who's tryna break his doubts

Down like his cases count, obsessive compulsive counting dough

Making sure all the numbers on the inside and all the faces out

Lawyers on retainer like they braces out

Say my name wrong, I make you taste your mouth

Money come, money go, get it but don't splurge it

Your boy's greed and war's needs got their own purpose

It's more than four speeds on that Porsche Turbo

It's sitting on four G's like my phone service

I'm outchea trapping with this here sincere rapping

Dear Assassin, you can't kill a signed and sealed classic

Gazelles and bill-blasted snake skin troops

Reptile enemies X'd out is what make men true

I'm blacking just like Jamaicans do

I'm running longside your coupe, tapping guns upon your Wraith window

Like Ox in Belly, got more Glocks and cellies

Than New York got blocks and delis

Cops and boxes of relly's, the doors ajar

Exposing my Maserati's guts and that's what got you jelly

The car I'm driving got a pot belly, zaga

I'm outchea trapping with this here sincere rapping

I been shooting straight since two-inch tape, this for real classic

And getting money was never part of my goals

It just came along with me shining my light on them hoes

I been outchea trapping with this here sincere rap

For 15 years, I ain't leaving here without a classic

I get money, get money, money, dough

All I came to do is shine my light on them hoes

Hip hop is my house, watch these philosophies win

Around artists I stand out like I lock my keys in

I forgot my goal at 23 was make a classic

Walk away like Tiger with my 9 iron, then take the Masters

They say that you get what you ask for

Well I asked to be left alone with my pen, pad and passport

This ain't no rags-to-rich brag shit

In fact, it's more close to being a rich-to-rags story

The fabric I'm cut from's the most genuine article mankind offers

I'm like an underground landmine talking

For Storch, Hammer and Antoine Walker

Your boy's a tampon, in every store, I'm anti-corporate

Highest exalted, call me commercial, I'm highly insulted

This is Royce Da 5'9", mind, body and soul shit

All I have on this fucking globe is my shotty and flow

I'd rather let the coroner outline my body in chalk

Than let the fans order me round the clock or buy me in bulk, zaga

I'm outchea trapping with this here sincere rapping

I been shooting straight since two-inch tape, this for real classic

And getting money was never part of my goals

It just came along with me shining my light on them hoes

I been outchea trapping with this here sincere rap

For 15 years, I ain't leaving here without a classic

I get money, get money, money, dough

All I came to do is shine my light on them hoes

We move in silence, y'all ain't hearing this coming

I was sent by God to provide that imperial sonnage

Y'all assembly line of rhymers really don't want it

I eat you for breakfast, one by one, I got y'all serial numbers

I'm about to send a Tweet out to my nigga Styles

Tell him he got the juice now, call my OG Scarface

Talk some boxing with him, perhaps these new clowns

Politic, perhaps 'bout a new him and Royce track

I'm feeling like D to the O to the C when he got his voice back

I'm feeling like Cube in a fresh El Camino

Rolling kilo D through Detroit's back streets waving

To all my people I'm feeling more at home than Reese Taylor

This what memories are made of, I remember each grudge

Each favor, each lie, each judge, each bailiff

Each job, cheap labor, each neighbor, each caper

Each mosque, each church, each pastor, pew and casket

Each future bastard, double dutching through the madness, singing

Just shine your light on the world

Said shine your light on the world

No matter anywhere you go, kid

Shining your light on the world

Don't let the money make you thirsty

Don't even let it be your goal

Just let it come and keep on working

And shine your light on them hoes

Cause I'm the hardest nigga out here

I'd rather die than live while I fear

I know why God sent me down here

To shine my light on them hoes

Hardest nigga out here

I'd rather starve than live while I fear

I feel like God sent me down here

To shine my light on them hoes