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somethin' outta nothin'

from 21st Century Blues by NE$$ x Baby J

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Somethin' Outa Nothin'

Chorus:
Makin' makin' makin' makin' Making somethin' outta nothin' 
Somethin' somethin' making somethin' outta nothin'
Making something 
Making something outta nothing 
Something something making something making something 
 Outta nothing 
We Made something 
Outta nothing 
Outta nothing (well not nothing nothing) 
We tired of sufferin ain’t no future in your frontin'


First Verse:
Sunshinin' yeah I’m smiling 
But there’s darkness all around us 
Lost souls in this Wilderness and no one ever found us
All nighters whiskey neats coca resi in my sinus 
Yeah ménages every other night a Domi Dionysus
Vampire  gold fronts fangs shinin' like a diamond 
Bite marks on thighs thotty sounding like she dying 
Lying face down, ass up you know how like it 
Murder Music on the Bluetooth tender lovin' violence 
I’m killer no homi 
drug dealer since a teen. 
Fiends fiend  for drugs, we fiend money... We All fiends! 
On MILK in front the mural u know Martin had dream 
On my Detroit Red Malcolm Little shit
By any means 
All these years in the mud 
fed myself, fed my seed 
another rat in the maze lost sniffin' for cheese
I started off wit a quarter fronted by a young supplier 
Round the same time as Tupac’s  Ambitions of a Rider 
I done, seen the evolution of this game, street codes, different drugs, of myself, of brain 
Last few New Years my resolution been to call it quits 
Every time I think I'm out they pull me back into this shit 

Second Verse:
You don’t even know do you do you do 
inspiration for all of the songs 
you don’t even know how a nigga been holding on
Hustling for as long as you know me but nigga I’m grown
Even my little baby ain’t even a baby no more
How long am I gonna be duckin' that long arm of the law
3 in the morning peekin' in peepholes knock at the door
The trap nigga no better word no metaphor
We All  trapped shit both sides of the door
I’m talking bout all of this dog I’m talking all sides of this war
the custies hustlers even the lawyers and officers dog
Cost of this holacaust
Drug war let’s call it a loss
I thought I was winning of course 
Now I’m just lost in the sauce
Started off... yooo
I started off just  not wanting a boss
make my own schedule like fuck it my off
write & smoke for hours or roam the city get lost
fast forward 2020 was it worth the trade off just sayin'

Chorus:
Makin' makin' makin' makin' Making somethin' outta nothin' 
Somethin' somethin' making somethin' outta nothin'
Making something 
Making something outta nothing 
Something something making something making something 
 Outta nothing 
We Made something 
Outta nothing 
Outta nothing (well not nothing nothing) 
We tired of sufferin ain’t no future in your frontin'

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from 21st Century Blues, released September 11, 2020

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NE$$ x Baby J New York, New York

In a music scene swamped with sex, drugs and opulence '21st Century Blues' fills a space currently missing in hip hop, showing both struggles of the young Black man trapped in the system and the opportunities and hopes of the future that could be.

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