You know what I'm saying? Because like I said before, I'm an artist, but I'm a Black man. I'm going to do everything I can within my platform and within my ability to help the cause. So we just all got to unify, and organize man, and just really go out there and create change, man. I'm a historian, so it's the same sh-t that was going on in the sixties that's still going on today. You know what I'm saying? And it's just sad. "Especially as being a Black man in America, bro, right now," he emphasized. "You know what I'm saying? We, as Black people have been targets in America for centuries, essentially. It was definitely a dope process making that record, for sure."Ĭordae also talked about how important he feels it is to make music that has a message behind it to create change. And then I pulled up on him at the studio and we made that song together that same night. And I think we did Real Street Festival, we both did a festival that day. And Roddy is just like a homie of mine, like in real life, you know what I'm saying? We always connect, have real life conversations. "We actually did that song last year, like last August," he said. "So we did that song like a year ago. In a recent interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Cordae talked about how he connected with Roddy to put this track together. Arrest and convict the killer cops," and the names of Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Elijah McClain. The young always inherit the revolution." Newton: "The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The video closes with a powerful message onscreen, a quote from Huey P. Talking about all of the people who are counting on them, Roddy and Cordae take turns harmonizing as they go from walking down their old blocks to driving up to mansions in the Hollywood hills. Uh, I got a whole lotta people that’s been countin’ on me Got this bad lil’ shawty goin’ down on the D I met shorty and we connected like the WiFi Hopped in the Phantom, disappeared like, “Voila” I told niggas that I would make it, they said, “No way” Watch them niggas that might eat up off of your plate They caught me slidin’ on the E-Way with the heat on the seat I got tennis chains with crosses but I still keep a piece Cordae Ft."Gifted" feels like a coming-of-age song, with Cordae reminiscing on where he came from before he got famous. See, I was twelve years with the Tommy fit Fifteen, crankin’ “Bobby Bitch” I was seventeen years on this Earth When I popped a Perc’, made my body itch Need a pound of blow when I’m drownin’ slow I was down below, word to Roddy Ricch We was slap-boxin’, no Karate Kid Start to see the difference with a lotta shit And my grandma got a lotta kids Bought whips foreign, no mileages Hit Saks Fifth and got a Prada fit But I still got a lotta wallet Shit, nigga, this the shit that I asked for ‘Member last year I was mad poor Seen my momma cry over homicides Now she down to fly, she got a passport And my brother locked for a backdoor Got my grandma a new Jaguar Big body whips like Shaq car No credit, check, straight cash, card Nigga, no stress, I progress That’s Mos Def like Black Star Seen the future in my Audemars Stack paper, don’t do no facade Uh, I got a whole lotta people that’s been countin’ on me Got this bad lil’ shawty goin’ down on the D I met shorty and we connected like the WiFi Hopped in the Phantom, disappeared like, “Voila” I told niggas that I would make it, they said, “No way” Watch them niggas that might eat up off of your plate They caught me slidin’ on the E-Way with the heat on the seat I got tennis chains with crosses but I still keep a piece Livin’ out my dream, my life is different (Different) If I want it, then I’ma get it (Get it) Living every day like it was Christmas ‘Cause I’m gifted (Ah, ah, ah) And I know what my gift is (Ah, ah, ah) And I know that I’m gifted (Ah, ah, ah) And I know what my gift is (Ah, ah, ah) ‘Cause I’m gifted This song is produced by Ray Keys, Cordae & Bongo. Roddy Ricch: Presenting the lyrics of the song “Gifted” sung by Cordae Ft.
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