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Buddy

Link Up

Release date: 8th February 2019

From Harlan & Alondra (Deluxe)
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About This Track

"Link Up" is a track by Buddy, from the album Harlan & Alondra (Deluxe), released 8th February 2019. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Buddy

Buddy

Lyrics

Link Up

[Chorus: Kent Jamz & Ari Lennox]

You was in the club at cabin

That was just last weekend

Now you locked up in the pen

Real niggas always link up in the end

Now I'm in the studio trappin'

Yeah, I'm just rappin' with my friends

You know how it is, how it goes

Real niggas always link up in the end

Real niggas always link up in the end

Real niggas always link up in the...

[Verse 1: Buddy]

Ayy (Haha)

We can do whatever, nigga

Whatever's clever, nigga, know we way ahead of niggas

They always rappin' like they tryin' to be better than you

But it's evident they'll never be the president, I'm tellin' you

I deserve a medal, nigga

Just to cop a condom at 7-Eleven

'Cause I'm better than that, and I'm tellin' you that

These bitches, these bitches, these bitches, these bitches

[Verse 2: Bas]

These bitches givin' it up, let's keep it a buck

My heart like a key in the truck, I'm keepin' it tucked

My heart like a key in the truck, I'm keepin' it tucked

My heart like a key in the truck, I'm keepin' it...

My niggas not givin' a fuck, let's keep it a buck

My heart like a key in the truck, I'm keepin' it tucked

My heart like a key in the truck, I'm keepin' it tucked

My heart like a key in the truck, I'm keepin' it, keepin' it

[Verse 3: Guapdad 4000]

Amazon Prime for the fast track, yeah

Niggas in the hood tryna grab that, yeah

Follow the track before you add that, yeah

I don't need a confirmation to tell 'em that I'ma smash that

You can get stuck out in traffic

Even when you're in your own lane

Gettin' money like Bruce so I guess I'm a slave to my own Wayne

Hoes dance to the soul of they own train

Wanna blow me down like Coltrane

Or match with the king of the hill like propane

Baby got nerve on her like Cobain

Even when I spill game, bet you that I won't stain up

[Chorus: Kent Jamz & Ari Lennox]

You was in the club at cabin

That was just last weekend

Now you locked up in the pen

Real niggas always link up in the end

Now I'm in the studio trappin'

Yeah, I'm just rappin' with my friends

You know how it is, how it goes

Real niggas always link up in the end

Real niggas always link up in the end

Real niggas always link up in the...

[Verse 4: JID]

This feels like nothin'

But everything at the same time

Same trouble in the grave, I'm napalm bomb

Every time make love

You may say I'm a little bit out of my mind, I don't mind

I don't be racin' for time, I'm alive

I lift a lot, a liquid drop

Love gives a sentence, stitch the block

Since an infant, my intent senses witness, vivid

Shit I shouldn't be dealin' with it but it's killin' it

My third trip, am I trill enough for the trilogy?

Truck in the path and you trippin'

I'm finna go chat with the I-10, bye ten

Even Benjamin Banneker be fuckin' up the math, I...

Alright, that's all I wrote

[Chorus]

You was in the club at cabin

That was just last weekend

Now you locked up in the pen

Real niggas always link up in the end

Now I'm in the studio trappin'

Yeah, I'm just rappin' with my friends

You know how it is, how it goes

Real niggas always link up in the end

Real niggas always link up in the end

Real niggas always link up in the...

Track details

From Harlan & Alondra (Deluxe)

2019
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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Ari Lennox, Bas, Buddy, Guapdad 4000, JID, Kent Jamz
    Producer
    Flying Lotus, Thundercat
    Mixing Engineer
    Neal Pogue
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