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Criminal Lyrics by GAWNE, Atlus

Waves

2022

[Hook: Atlus]
It's criminal, the way they look at me
So cynical. they want me to leave
Yeah, it's criminal, the way they think
All aboard the ship, hoping that we sink
It's criminal, the way they look at me
So cynical. They want me to leave
Yeah, it's criminal, the way they think
All aboard the ship, hoping that we sink

[Verse 1: Gawne]
Yeah, little bitch I'm a criminal
I've been in trouble since middle school
All my teachers used to ridicule
Calling home to mama just to start some drama: "His behavior's indefensible"
How they go send me to the principle if I do not have any principles?
Spent a few years in detention, yeah, handsome and imbecile
Gave a fuck about it, made more money than my teachers ever did - I call that economics
I've been through thick and the thin from the bottom
Addicted to meds on my ass, I was sick and in bed back when spitting meant ridding of phlegm
'Till I listened to Em and he taught me to pick up the pen, even though life was shitty back then
I'm still missing the days of that minimum wage, now I'm trying to get back into dreaming again
Look at my, look at my swag, look at my bag, look at my, look at my cash
Rappers these days so wack, everything you spit is crap, yeah
You ain't really spitting facts, cap, you ain't as good as me, I get a hit every time that I'm swinging a bat
Speaking of that – I call him Atlus 'cause we put our team on the map (We put our team on the map)

[Hook: Atlus]
It's criminal the way they look at me
So cynical. They want me to leave
Yeah, it's criminal the way they think
All aboard the ship, hoping that we sink

[Verse 2: Gawne]
I've been non-stop for really long, so 'till the day that I fall
I'ma grind hard like a dog, yeah, go for broke and say fuck 'em all
So pass the ball, I ride up and I brush the paint to clutch the game, was down for a couple days
But mustered strength to get up and go fuckin' A, got no ceiling, man, I'm really on the cusp of greatness
To the day that my mind's diminished, I rise up, yeah, the sky's the limit, I rhyme if it ain't no harm
Not finished from putting on a clinic, been at the pinnacle of rhyme and I'm kinda the guy to
Spit it better than anybody, they're never gonna be five percent of my level, I'm the Guiness world record
But you gotta admit, I'm hot when I'm hip-hopping it, call the cops and get it's criminal, a consequence, huh

[Hook: Atlus]
It's criminal the way they look at me
So cynical. They want me to leave
Yeah, it's criminal the way they think
All aboard the ship, hoping that we sink

[Prod. By Pendo46]
Credits
GAWNE

GAWNE

Atlus

Atlus

About “Criminal” by GAWNE

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"Criminal" appears on "Waves" in 2022.

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