[Intro]
"Now some guys they just hate for no reason, capiche?"
[Verse 1]
On the real homie, on the real
Tell me how you feel
Everything I spit is gold like I got a grill
Bet you people talking thought I'd sell out once I got a deal
Still me and my team, only difference - we live in the hills
We living a dream, these bitches perpetrating the skills
At the soup kitchen with my mama they giving us meals
I was poor in my adolescence but now I'm getting mills
Come on, tell me how it feels when that brand new record spills
Homie this the come up, I'm from where them drug dealers will run up
But I was never 'bout that shit, I just worked till the sun up
Oh yeah
Claiming that they got it over there
But they never had it over there
Motherfucker this the come up
[Chorus]
Came a long way, this the come up
Been a long time coming, it's the come up
Been a long damn time, it's the come up
[Verse 2]
Open your mind, this is work ethic
Ninety-nine percent of you couldn't comprehend the method
Cause you too wrapped up in the money and bitches
I get riches but never sacrifice the art
Been real from the start, now break it down
That super-duper-killer flow
All these bitches in here make you wanna kill a ho
It's kind of funny how the flow make me sound ignant
But you know the wordplay on another level, isn't it?
I been at it since a youngin on a dolo
Till I got a team and said bye to doing it solo
Bad bitches wanna fuck me on the low though
Tryna' break the ice she be like, "Can I get a photo?"
A long time comin', what you call that?
Shorty blowin' up my phone, I promise to call back
Unless you a crazy ass bitch
I'ma tell your ass to fall back
[Chorus]
Came a long way, this the come up
Been a long time coming, it's the come up
Been a long damn time, it's the come up
[Outro: Seth MacFarlane]
Logic
Logic’s rappin' about true things and no bullshit or fake stories of “da hood”, he is Real All The Time (Rattpack) from the start, and will always remain, like his crew, as he says in “War Vet”
I keep it real all the time, like my crew when I rhyme "
Visionary over everythingg
Talking about all the haters criticizing and thinking he was gonna be soldout once he get famous.
He is joking about that in Sell Out Records “Thrist Mail (Skit) and “Randolf Returns”
In 2013, Logic signed a deal with the famous DefJam owned by Universal Music Group
Also, Logic bought a house in California, “The Hills”
Logic talks about Lenny or ‘Big Lenbo’ supporting him during the early stages of his career, letting him live in his house for a year, for free; putting clothes and his back and food in his mouth.
This is Kid Cudi’s voice, sampled from a 2013 interview on Power 106 radio station.
This sample only appears on the mixtape version of the song; when “The Come Up” was released onto streaming services as a part of YS Collection, Vol. 1 on June 25, 2021, this sample was absent.
“The come up” (mostly used in hip hop) is a stage in an emcee’s career when they evolve from an underground artist into a phenomenon. The artist starts selling out large venues, earns more money, fame and radio hits.
He wants to know how you feel when all his new hits drop on his album, could be referencing his own song “Ballin” where he claims I won’t leak the album I’ll let it spill meaning he won’t release his tracks before the release date.
Probably not this
This was sampled from the animated sitcom American Dad:
This is a movie quote, sampled from the 1976 classic Rocky.
This sample only appears on the mixtape version of the song; when “The Come Up” was released onto streaming services as a part of YS Collection, Vol. 1 on June 25, 2021, this sample was absent.
Throughout his childhood, both his father and mother suffered from crack addiction and alcoholism. His brothers would also be selling crack cocaine, he didn’t get involved though. After moving out he worked two jobs to afford a place on his own.