Vince Staples - Versace Rap lyrics

rate me

[Verse 1]

I asked my mama what's the key to life, she told me she ain't know

She just try to take it day to day, and pray I make it home

Made me wonder for a second, til I felt my weapon

Falling out my pocket, then walked inside my room before she saw it

Never had a happy home, stability's a problem

Evictions from apartments, prison letters from my father

All a nigga ever knew, if it wasn't for Rashard or Ray

I probably would be shot today, they taught about survival

My teachers said I had a vibrant mind, but a tarnished shine

Doing violent crimes, put the money in my pockets

Gave it to my mom, but when a nigga had a chance

Never asked where it was from, happy that I lent a hand

The day my grandfather died, I grew into a man

Around the same time I first pulled a trigger

I prayed it didn't hit him, but after awhile I ain't care

As long as a nigga still here, right?

[Verse 2]

Never had belief in Christ, cus in the pictures he was white

Same color as the judge that gave my hood repeated life

Sentences for little shit, church I wasn't feeling it

Why the preacher charge us, tell us everything gon be alright

Knew what it was for, still I felt that it was wrong

Till I heard Chef call himself God in the song

And it all made sense, cus we can't do shit

But look inside the mirror once it all goes wrong

You fix your own problems, tame your own conscience

All that holy water shit is nothing short of nonsense

Not denying Christ, I'm just denying niggas options

Cus prayer never moved my Grandmama out of Compton

I prayed for my cousin, but them niggas still shot him

Invest in a gun, cus them niggas still got them

And won't shit stop em from popping you in broad day

Hope that choir ? bulletproof or you gon pay

[Verse 3]

Money was the motive, Florence, California, cutting corners

Trying catch a nigga slipping just to blaze him that's a bonus (what?)

Chain?, but nigga meet your maker

As-Salamu leave em lay side, bells can't save em

When them shells start raining, guess my mama didn't raise me right

Too busy paying Christ to wash away her sins

But I'm the only one that's fucked up in the end?

That's the shit that happens when you put a book before your kids

The only girl I ever loved turned into a bitch

If I ever see her and I got a gun, she get a ship

That's as honest as it gets, I've done a lot of shit

I ain't proud of, but I wouldn't trade it in for Heaven

11 Mac-11's, and a Tre 57, bet that shit will get to talking

If you ever got a question

Never met a person worth trying to impress

So consider this a murder when it's 5 inside your chest

Thanks to Karim for correcting these lyrics