[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]

Paperwork

Don't do no business until you check his (Paperwork)

And if all else fails, I just hope that this (Paperwork)

Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof

Everything got a cost, they gon' need something on you (Paperwork)

[Verse 1: T.I.]

Huh, ATL, Westside

That's the only home I know

In eighty-five, me and Uncle Quint used to ride 'round in the big Bronco

Took me up to Charles' Disco, daytime

Set me down at the bar where I drank Shirley Temple

'Til he walked out with a bag and we got back in the car

"What you wanna be," he asked, "When you grow up big head?"

"I just wanna be like you, ridin' 'round town gettin' bread"

We shared a couple laughs, couple summer pass

Uncle Quint ain't nowhere to be found

Later we learn that someone ratted him out

For that reason, ten years he won't be around

[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]

Paperwork

Don't do no business until you check his (Paperwork)

And if all else fails, I just hope that this (Paperwork)

Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof

Everything got a cost, they gon' need something on you (Paperwork)

[Verse 2: T.I.]

Picture me in ninety-three

I'm the only man I see

Fresh up off the porch

Lookin' for a drop Porsche and a fake ID

Introduce me to the crack game

Rap game was the furthest from my mind

Had a notebook full of rhymes

And a pocket full of crack rock dimes

Time on my side, lil' four-five in my jeans

Open fire if you seem to be blocking my dreams, yessir

Welfare, food stamps, section eight

Me and Ma lived in the trap

I said, "Fuck school, it's holdin' me back

I want a bankroll, chasin' after that"

[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]

Paperwork

Don't do no business until you check his (Paperwork)

And if all else fails, I just hope that this (Paperwork)

Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof

Everything got a cost, they gon' need something on you (Paperwork)

[Verse 3: T.I.]

Huh, look at me at seventeen livin' on my own

Peddling quarter ki', now and then sellin' weed

Totin' tools, caught my first felony

That's one of many that were to follow

Drinkin' Henny up out the bottle

Tote a chopper, I think I'm bein' followed

Family don't think I'll live to see tomorrow

Plenty have a story like mine

Know many of you had a lil' nine

Know many of you did a lil' dirt

Too many of us did a lil' time

Wake up, ten years of your life passed

When you get your cake up

Don't it seem a lil' odd when the Feds on your ass passin' out–

[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]

Paperwork

Don't do no business until you check his (Paperwork)

And if all else fails, I just hope that this (Paperwork)

Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof

Everything got a cost, they gon' need something on you (Paperwork)

[Bridge: Pharrell Williams & T.I.]

If you think that you high, baby, look above you

It's drones in the sky, there's nothing you could do

So left, two, three, snap

Right, two, three, snap

Don't get serious now, it's too late for that

'Cause they got–

Time on my side, lil' four-five in my jeans

Open fire if you seem to be blocking my dreams

Yessir

[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]

Paperwork

Don't do no business until you check his (Paperwork)

And if all else fails, I just hope that this (Paperwork)

Wanna swing Bentley doors, blow smoke through the roof

Everything got a cost, they gon' need something on you (Paperwork)