T.I. ft. Pharrell - Paperwork Lyrics





Paperwork Lyrics by T.I.

(feat. Pharrell)



[Hook: Pharrell]

(Paperwork)

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

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

(?) through the roof

Everything got a cost, they gone need something on you

(Paperwork)



[Verse 1: TI]

ATL, Westside, that's the only home I know

In '85, me and Uncle Quint used to ride around in the big Bronco

Took me up to (?) 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 ask? When you grow up big kid?

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

We shot a couple Lac, couple summer pass, Uncle quint ain't nowhere to be found

Later we learn that someone ratted him out, for that reason 10 years he won't be around



[Hook: Pharrell]



[Verse 2: TI]

Picture me in '93, I'm the only man I see

Fresh up off the porch looking for the drop Porsche and the 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



[Bridge: TI]

Time on my side, lift .45 in my jean

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



[Verse 3: TI]

Welfare, food stamps, section eight, me and Ma lived in the trap

I said fuck school, it holdin' me back

I wanna bankroll, chasin' after that



[Hook: Pharrell]



[Verse 4: TI]

Look at me at 17, livin' on my own, peddlin' quarter key

Now and then sellin' weed, tokin' too, cost my first felony

That's (?) follow, drinkin' Henney up out the bottle

Told a child I think I'm bein' followed

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

Pay to have a story like mine

Not many you had a little nine

Not many and you did a little dirt

Too many did a little time

Wake up, 10 years of your life pass when you get your cake up

Don't it seem like (?) when the Feds on your ass

Passin' out



[Hook: Pharrell]



[Verse 5: Pharrell]

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 (?) it's too late for that

Cause they got



[Bridge: TI]



[Hook: Pharrell]

The two southern legends team up as TI talks about his life growing up over Pharrell’s beat.