Run It Up

English translation

Run it up, the sun is up

To when it's down, get your money up

I put money down on all of us

On my people no, on what I love

Ooh, baby, it's dangerous

Your problems, they just not the same to us

We're dealin' with things you ain't seen before

We're feelin' the weight of our ancestors

We're healin' with ways that don't last for long

Don't have us the time, ain't it obvious?

No help for the weak, but the liquor strong

Plenty here, pour it for all of us

Now bring out the drums in this -

All my homies got rich doing - that they said wouldn't work

Bring out the guns in the -, here to load up a clip

And go shoot up the place, we don't care (brrt)

I see the bums that be wishing we end in a ditch

Yeah, they're prayin' to see a man hurt

I see the love that we give and the love that we get

Make sure everything comin' full circle (whoo)

We went from nothin' to something

Got all of 'em jumpin' to shit that we made from the air

We went from running and gunning with nothing in stomach

To feeding the neighborhood, bruh

There ain't a person alive that be matching the vibe

And it honestly ain't even fair (whoo, whoo)

There ain't a dude with the drive and the vision like I have

Unless I go look in the mirror, baby (whoo, yeah)

So run it up, the sun is up

To when it's down, get your money up

I put money down on all of us

On my people now, on what I love

Ooh, baby, we run it up

Get it the minute, the sun is up (whoo, whoo)

There is no resting when sun is down (whoo, whoo)

Work it for real, get your money up (whoo, whoo)

Believe it on God, put money down (whoo, whoo)

I'm bettin' the odds on all of us (whoo, whoo)

I do it for all of my people now (whoo, whoo)

Put that on everything that I love (whoo)

Church!

Yeah, on everything that I love (ah!)

Yeah, yeah, ain't nothing that come above (yeah)

Yeah, three, two, one

Now we go from angry and mad

Too happy and glad to find a solution for us

We go from sorry and sad to

Ready to grab our weapons and get to the front

I want the money, the cash

The moola, the bag, the currency, stacking it up (yeah)

We want the freedom to live and

The freedom to have the things we been lackin', my bruh

So what are we lackin'? (Huh?)

I could point it out, so much that's around, better settle down (whoo)

No point doing that, or they send the hounds (yeah)

Bite me in the -, put me in the ground (ay)

Turn me into ash, culture carried down (ay)

From those who came up before me (ay)

I'm here to change up the story (yeah)

Find me at work in the morning (yeah, yeah)

Find me where people are mourning, man (yeah)

'Cause death is around every corner (yeah)

When life isn't free for a person, dawg

You act like an animal cornered

Savages speak in a language y'all

You don't understand, you a foreigner

Don't nobody need an advantage, nah

We're needin' some balance and order

But you know that's never the case

Never a chance that they're changing their ways (no)

It's never a choice that they're giving to you

There will never be justice to face

We sing for the sorrow and dance for the pain (yeah)

No one to follow, it's just you and me (yeah)

I swear that it's coming, we're starting today

But we wake up tomorrow and things are the same, damn (brrt)