CeeLo Green, EARTHGANG, Nick Cannon - POWER lyrics

Nigga 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 shit
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 niggas 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, fuck them niggas 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, drugs
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
Fuck CEOs takin' your shows and firin'
You at night like Nick
That's a cannon blast
They'll try to undercut your ass
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
(Shit, that shit powerful right there, haha)
Power, power, power
(You know what's the wild shit? I
Just named my daughter Powerful)
Power, power, power
(And niggas thought I was
Crazy for that, ayy
Call me crazy)
Power, power, power
('Cause niggas that think they crazy
Enough to change the
World the ones that actually do that shit)
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 (O oh)
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 shit 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 suit's and
Ties looking at me like I'm a bad bitch
But I never lost my religion, so I'm lucky
When a lot of these other artists
Right here thinkin' to themselves, "Damn
Why don't nobody wanna fuck me?"
I'm so glad that I'm ugly
Boy, stop, I'm beautiful
These motherfuckers'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 motherfuckers 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
(Shit, 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, shit
We do everything all black)
Power, power, power
(We own that shit, we
Reppin' for all Blacks
That's
Why they had to give my shit back
Powerful)