Going Diamond

By B.o.B

On Cloud 9

Released on December 25, 2007

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[Verse 1]

About four years ago while I was on the grind

Everybody was telling me I was just wasting my time

But then about two weeks ago my n**ga I got signed

So I had to leave Columbia without saying goodbye

And now I'm finishing my album up

While at the same time catching up on algebra

Everybody where's Bobby at? Dial him up

But I ain't round now, I'm in California

But I still rep Decatur where it's greater

Born in North Carolina, raised up like a razor

Sharp enough to turn some player haters to a plate of taters

I ain't fucking with y'all, I'm trying to fuck in my Mercedes

Benz, blowing on they grinch, I'm gone in the wind

Everybody popping up, they trying to be my friend

Playing that pretend, so I just pretend

That I don't even see 'em, so to me they don't exist


[Verse 2]

Peace

But no, I ain't gone Hollywood

I'm still in the hood and I blow a lot of good

And when I'm out I don't roll without my buds

My buddy and my slut and the best, best buds

Gotta get a Dutch just to roll it up

So If you in the need baby, come and take a puff

Come and stay with us if you wanna make a fuss

In the middle of the night, tell ya boyfriend hush (DAMN)

But no, don't take it personal

You so bad when you move with earth my soul

And this nigga wanna hop and just ???

But be careful, this thing it'll hurt you fool

Oh yes, yes, I'm a beast and now I hunt ya sleep to put it honestly

I'm like a monster at lunching season (HEY)

And the game is my prey and I'm munching people


[Verse 3]

I'm going 20 times gold out the gate

'Cause the game is a hoe and I'm holding her waist

I'm holding her tight so she know when to sway

When I'm holding a mic they won't know what to say

I got what you need like a bowl of chilly

And my flows stone cold like I froze it in a tray

In the middle of the ocean, I'm floating away

That's why they call me B.O.B

I ain't really in this for the Benjamins and dough

I'm just trying to get me a percentage of the globe

And when I'm done with it, man I'm finished, I'ma ghost

I'm just trying to put the truth in your earlobes

So be easy, put the bitterness away

'Cause I'm critically acclaimed and I'm clinically insane

I'm finna get up in it, I ain't finna hesitate

Like a n**ga on the building finna take his life away


[Verse 4]

But I don't want to die, I just want to ride

Off a ??? in Decatur, that's where I reside

This is where the struggle is and this is why we strive to breathe

Pinching pennies to make ends meet day and night

Even though this ain't no paradise, n**gas carry knives or a pair of nines to make sure they still survive

We just trying to make it out to see a better life

But they call us thugs 'cause the sun never ever shines

So if you know what I'm talking about and you really feel me

We puffin' killa killas, so we got us feeling silly

That's why I'm repping for my town and my city

'Cause when you from the hood they treat you like you no good


[Verse 5]

That's why I got all the brothers calling me

I spit that real shit, and yes it's quality

If you don't like it dawg, my apologies

But nobody saying nothing back when I ain't had nothing

Now every single body trying to get up on my

But I tell 'em get to stepping when I'm stepping

I was broke but now I'm kind of riding like a

'Cause the east side in Decatur's where I'm repping

Yeah, I got the crack, you scratch and sniff and then you get addicted

I got that shit, It'll have you sick, and no, you can not fix it

I'm about to drop some classic hits so I'ma snatch the hitlist

So put your aprons on 'cause it's hazardous to listen


[Verse 6]

I ain't really into making baller music

'Cause I was never balling, dude

I'm spillin' my life and talking to ya

Everyone tellin' me that I'm foolish

Tellin' me to go back to school and

Tellin' me that I ought to do this, ought to do that

But I'm like nah, I'm cool, cat

This a fake ass game and everything in it is fake as hell

Everything you see on TV, they just saying it to sell

They probably wouldn't even tell the truth to save their sales

But I ain't participating in none of this shit

It's nothin' but business

So don't be coming up to me, confronting me with all this bullshit [?]

If you ain't believe me then it's nothing to see, so don't get curious

I'm just here to let y'all n— know that I'm so serious

I'm throwing the giant show around the globe, diamond hoe


[Verse 7]

Now everyone is so [?] 'cause there is a new guy in town

But you are not dreaming so open up your eyelids

Your eyelids, your eyelids, your eyelids

As soon as the album drop, man, everyone gon' hate me now

I'm 'bout to infiltrate the game like a virus

A virus, a virus, a virus

And no, this ain't personal, and no this ain't just for show

But I'm about to take over the globe

The globe, the globe, the globe, for sure, for sure

Yes, I got what you need, if you want it come and see me

I got the [?] disease, disease, disease, disease

You think I'm lyin'?