Bad Meaning Good

By Drake

On Room for Improvement

Released on February 14, 2006

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[Verse 1: Slakah, Drake]

Lady, you say I stay in the house 'til four

We don't even go out no more

It's always the same, eh

Always complainin', it's obvious, baby

I guess you don't watch the news

You see there's a lot to lose

'Cause we got a baby (Yeah) and people are shady


[Bridge: Drake]

My generation is changin' aside from the fact

The dealers have customers they provide with the crack

Front of the buses taken and we deny it from the back

You can die where you from, or die where you at


[Chorus: Drake]

Don't put it past them, I don't think that they understood

My friends they ain't even sit in the class when they should

He can come pick you up if your dads in the hood

Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good, good, good


[Verse 2: Slakah]

Lady, somebody shot up the place right by

Where I work and I think they might

Be coming for me next, klend me ya Kleenex

I'm tellin you baby (Ooh)

I think I'm a bout to cry

Still gotta go out tonight

'Cause I gotta feed you, I hope that I see you again

A-a-again

Hope that I see you (See you), see you (See you), yeah


[Chorus: Drake]

Don't put it past them, I don't think that they understood

My friends they ain't even sit in the class when they should

He can come pick you up if your dads in the hood

Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good, good, good


[Verse 3: Drake]

Lately, I don't know about the friends that I hang with

I'm nervous round my boys, it depends on their anguish

Depends on if they saving all the tops on Pepsi

With dreams of seeing girls topless on jet skis

Depends on what they do to achieve that

Robbing R&B singers, 'specially if they know where the keys at

Specially if they know where they girl live

Get the info, leave with ya money man, that's how the world is

That's how niggas puttin' they dirt down

Streets are seedy, I call 'em sesame, it's Ernie and Bert's town

'Specially when these youngins get turned down for work opportunities

Next week same place'll get burnt down

Coinkydink? Not likely, not a chance

How can we be so aware of these problems and not advance?

At least start put a bid in, its hard just to fit in

A lot of people only play they part when they spittin'

But I don't think that they understood

They using this darkness for penetration in the hood

I took the ivory way in and, yes, I'm glad that Keenan could

Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good, good, good

[Outro: Drake, Slakah]

You gotta feel it

Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good (Uh, uh, uh, uh)

Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good, good, good (Uh)

Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good, good, good