What a Job - Devin the Dude/Snoop Dogg.mp3

[00:23.201] Rolling up another Swisha, listening to the beat again
[00:26.313] Dranking but we concentrating, smoke another Sweet again
[00:29.267] Steadily rewinding trying to make some hot shit
[00:31.854] Oh, what a job this is
[00:34.965] Another all nighter trying to get it done
[00:37.729] Barely make it home with the morning sun
[00:40.870] Baby mother thinking that you on some other shit
[00:43.629] Oh, what a job this is
[00:46.768] Dranking yet I'm thinking of another rhyme
[00:49.371] Smoking, hoping that some bad news will come some other time
[00:52.220] 'Cause I'm trying to do what I love, I love what I do
[00:55.463] This music is something more different than the weed and the brew
[00:58.382] That's why we mashing we ain't asking for nothing we working for it
[01:01.548] Push it, peddle it to the people, they can't ignore it
[01:04.155] This is for all the independents, a few major labels
[01:07.468] The big studios who still give niggas favors
[01:10.470] On the mixing and mastering
[01:12.140] Puzzling and plastering the tracks together
[01:14.426] On tapes, CDs, wax or whatever
[01:16.662] This is for all the engineers who smoke weed
[01:19.361] Can't forget about the production costs and all the hidden fees
[01:22.321] For another rhyme written, we spend time spitting in the booth
[01:25.943] Sometimes it's like a pigeon coop
[01:27.919] But it's all for the cause
[01:30.616] So I'm gonna continue to MC and smoke weed
[01:33.902] You know I'm...
[01:34.551] Rolling up another Swisha, listening to the beat again
[01:37.262] Dranking but we concentrating, smoke another Sweet again
[01:40.212] Steadily rewinding trying to make some hot shit
[01:42.823] Oh, what a job this is
[01:45.997] Another all nighter trying to get it done
[01:48.675] Barely make it home with the morning sun
[01:51.805] Baby mother thinking that you on some other shit
[01:54.570] Oh, what a job this is
[01:57.700] As easy as it looks to you, I make it look so easy
[02:00.580] With the music I be making, the impression I be leaving
[02:03.476] A lot of folks they stop and stare, thinking I'ma trick it off
[02:06.584] I roll another bleezy, puff it, pass it and shake it off
[02:09.773] Move on to the next phase and it's amazing
[02:12.411] The next generation of rappers, big Snoop Dogg raising 'em
[02:16.249] That's fifteen years in the game
[02:18.178] Still got the fortune and fame, yeah I'm doing my thang
[02:21.120] Check this Devin, somebody said that real Gs to go heaven
[02:23.940] So I'mma keep spitting the truth on these fools like a reverend
[02:27.300] Stay open like 7-11, that's 24/7
[02:30.016] When you need some hot shit, stop by and get you a beverage
[02:33.007] I'm serving, my rhymes like nickels and dimes
[02:35.875] Plug it in, let it play and let me blow your mind
[02:38.837] It's the dominant, conglomerate, prominent, and I'mma get
[02:41.943] What I gotta get, twist another Sweet and bob to the beat
[02:44.964] Rolling up another Swisha, listening to the beat again
[02:48.150] Dranking but we concentrating, smoke another Sweet again
[02:51.174] Steadily rewinding trying to make some hot shit
[02:53.735] Oh, what a job this is
[02:56.889] Another all nighter trying to get it done
[02:59.619] Barely make it home with the morning sun
[03:02.708] Baby mother thinking that you on some other shit
[03:05.593] Oh, what a job this is (Woo!)
[03:08.922] We work nights, we some vampires
[03:11.587] Niggas gather 'round the beat like a campfire
[03:14.436] Singing folk songs, but not no "Kumbaya my Lord"
[03:18.000] You download it for free, we get charged back for it
[03:20.986] I know you're saying, "they won't know, they won't miss it
[03:23.419] Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit"
[03:26.279] So if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob
[03:29.067] And take a couple kernels off it that would be alright with you
[03:32.609] (Hell no!) Yeah, exactamundo
[03:35.389] But we just keep recording and it ain't to get no condo
[03:38.199] And Candy Bentley fanny with no panties in Miami
[03:41.076] And that cute lil' chick named Tammy that you took to the Grammys
[03:44.170] See, we do it for that boy that graduated
[03:46.390] That looked you in your eyes real tough and say "'preciate it"
[03:49.366] And that he wouldn'ta made it if it wasn't for your CD number nine
[03:52.851] And he's standing with his baby momma Kiki and she crying
[03:55.786] Talkin' 'bout, that they used to get high to me in high school
[03:59.112] And they used to make love to me in college
[04:01.896] Then they told me 'bout they first date, listenin' to my tunes
[04:05.071] And how he liked her fingernail polish
[04:07.805] I say "Hate to cut you off but I gotta go
[04:10.044] I wish you could tell me mo', but I'm off to the studio
[04:12.791] Gotta write tonight"
[04:13.831] "Hey, can you put us in your raps?" "I don't see why not"
[04:16.885] Devin is the Dude, you gon' probably hear him talkin' 'bout–
[04:19.812] Rolling up another Swisha, listening to the beat again
[04:22.746] Dranking but we concentrating, smoke another Sweet again
[04:25.686] Steadily rewinding trying to make some hot shit
[04:28.248] Oh, what a job this is
[04:31.449] Another all nighter trying to get it done
[04:34.218] Barely make it home with the morning sun
[04:37.286] Baby mother thinking that you on some other shit
[04:40.046] Oh, what a job this is
[04:44.016] Yeah, this life we live, what a job this is—real spit, man
[04:50.735] A lot of folks wanna walk in these shoes
[04:52.542] But they just don't know, man, it's a hell of a job, man
[04:55.268] To be a rapper, MC, whatever you want to call it, man
[04:58.560] We got a lot to deal with
[05:01.159] Family members we gotta always look out for
[05:03.436] Baby momma nagging, you know I'm sayin', kids need this
[05:07.320] And then again the public need that, we gotta make hot music
[05:10.403] 'Cause if it ain't hot, it don't mean shit
[05:13.255] But you know, it's all in a day's work
[05:17.837] What a job this is my nigga
[05:19.710] What's crack-a-lacking, Devin the Dizzude?
[05:21.820] Snoop D-O dub, J Prince, Jazz Prince
[05:24.822] Yeah, Rap-A-Lot still on top. 2007