[Intro - Monelle] Do it ‘cause I like this shit I do it ‘cause I… [Chorus - Monelle] I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the clicks I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the thrills I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the clicks I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the thrills [Verse - Monelle] See no halo, they after the payload See no angel the whiter the payroll The deeper the pain go, I just got laid off I hated my day job, I hated the payoff Everything I’m living for Waters that I’m drinking from Liquor from corner store Places that I’m running from Faster than a bullet, gunpowder on my Louboutins That’s my blood I put that on my entourage Building my own dreams from stones that they thrown to me Now it’s just a throne to me, now it’s just a goal to me Now you're kinda mad cause you can‘t get a hold of me Passion is a standard and you’re never landing on your feet Where do you reach when the slopes get slippery? Do you even think of me? Do you keep the memories? Are you proud of anything? Said I was dead to you thinking you would bury me [Chorus - Monelle] I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the clicks I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the thrills I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the clicks I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the thrills [Verse - Masilo The Healer] Uhh you do it for the likes, the licks the clicks And all 'dem little shits The spending money on some fake tits No I cannot judge I don't give a fuck You did it for the looks I did it for the up above I got up off my ass vanity I see past Would kill for my art keep the weapons in the cache Keep my nails done skin soft making sure I smash Gotta' move smart So for a start grabbing life by the ass with a passion And for the artist in you show compassion Yes I've been branching out got my leaves in fashion To measure you to me is truly outlandish, madness The magic's in the artist with the pen I do damage No mediocre never been average Silence of the lambs I'm a savage Just got off the stage so she knows that I'm a package The whole meal and her fine ass looks famished [Chorus - Monelle] I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the clicks I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the thrills I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the clicks I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the thrills [Post Chorus - IORDN] Are we all alone? No one left to call Please tell me the truth I don’t wanna lose [Verse - IORDN] Permission to retaliate My mind been getting sick with all the things that been on my plate And nowadays I’m picky but they chose me to hold the base Since I was just a pick-me with a limp and a babyface Knew I’d be great We on a mission the real killers and drug dealers Suit-and-tie villains, the politicians, corrupt figures Flood the block with obstacles, turn us into the merch dealers Till the merch kill us or turn us back into slave niggas We all be pawns, that need pawn To make the ends meet like a respawn Just be the ones that they gon’ beat on Harder than days that I done made this beat on Wishin’ with all my heart that I could withdraw Until they withdraw No shoulder to lean on They sendin us niggas to sleep with no yawn Crying like newborns We took to the streets to the sound of the air horns Draped in my Air Forces Saluting the ones in the sky like they been launched Then pray for a new dawn And pour lil’ something for those that have been gone I wanna believe the people like me will only see better days But I be so jaded, God will I see the day? And then they gon’ wonder why a nigga get high ‘Cause pressure, pain and pills the only way we know to get by Sometimes I feel like I’m a waiting Martin Luther talking Feel like a living breathing martyr Another dead man walking Some of my thoughts be feeling heavy like the weight of a gun I had to train my mind and soul to lift the weight of a ton A ton yeah Pardon me my deepest fear is to always live my life in fear That my potential is only ever gonna be my potential Jesus take the wheel cause this shit drivin’ me mental They can Take my chains to give me chains But they ain’t never gon’ erase my name Never be silent, I may be scared but my knees are never knocking And if they choose war then I load the peace and let it do all the talking The talking [Chorus - Monelle & IORDN] I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the clicks I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the thrills I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the clicks I do it ‘cause I like this shit You do it for the likes and the thrills I do it ‘cause I like this shit (Are we all alone?) You do it for the likes and the clicks (No one left to call) I do it ‘cause I like this shit (Please tell me the truth) You do it for the likes and the thrills (I don’t wanna lose) I do it ‘cause I like this shit (Are we all alone?) You do it for the likes and the clicks (No one left to call) I do it ‘cause I like this shit (Please tell me the truth) You do it and it just don’t hit (I don’t wanna lose) [Outro - Monelle] I do it ‘cause I like this shit ey, ey Ey, ey, ey
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