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Cordae

Gifted

Release date: 27th August 2020

From From a Birds Eye View
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About This Track

Cordae's declaration of arrival, 'Gifted' pairs him with Roddy Ricch over a track that moves between boast and gratitude. The pre-chorus, sung by Ant Clemons, sets the emotional register: a life transformed by talent and will, lived with the intensity of perpetual celebration. Cordae's verses stack specificity against abstraction, naming foreign cars and designer labels whilst anchoring them to the people who depend on him, his mother, his grandmother, his brother. The song moves between the material and the relational without pretending they are the same thing. What emerges is a portrait of upward mobility that acknowledges its own precarity. He remembers being poor, remembers his mother crying, remembers doubt. The gift, then, is not merely talent but the discipline to convert it into security for those around him. Roddy Ricch's presence sharpens the track's competitive edge, but it is Cordae's refusal to separate personal triumph from familial obligation that gives 'Gifted' its weight.

"Gifted" is a track by Cordae, from the album From a Birds Eye View, released 27th August 2020. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Cordae

Cordae

Lyrics

Gifted

[Pre-Chorus: Ant Clemons]

Livin' out my dream, my life is different (Different)

If I want it, then I'ma get it (Get it)

Living every day like it was Christmas

'Cause I'm gifted (Ah, ah, ah)

And I know what my gift is (Ah, ah, ah)

And I know that I'm gifted (Ah, ah, ah)

And I know what my gift is (Ah, ah, ah)

'Cause I'm gifted

[Chorus: Cordae & Roddy Ricch]

Uh, I got a whole lotta people that's been countin' on me

Got this bad lil' shawty goin' down on the D

I met shorty and we connected like the WiFi

Hopped in the Phantom, disappeared like, "Voilà"

I told niggas that I would make it, they said, "No way"

Watch them niggas that might eat up off of your plate

They caught me slidin' on the E-Way with the hеat on the seat

I got tennis chains with crossеs but I still keep a piece

[Verse: Cordae & Roddy Ricch]

See, I was twelve years with the Tommy fit

Fifteen, crankin' "Bobby Bitch"

I was seventeen years on this Earth

When I popped a Perc', made my body itch

Need a pound of blow when I'm drownin' slow

I was down below, word to Roddy Ricch

We was slap-boxin', no Karate Kid

Start to see the difference with a lotta shit

And my grandma got a lotta kids

Bought whips foreign, no mileages

Hit Saks Fifth and got a Prada fit

But I still got a lotta wallet

Shit, nigga, this the shit that I asked for

'Member last year I was mad poor

Seen my momma cry over homicides

Now she down to fly, she got a passport

And my brother locked for a backdoor

Got my grandmomma a new Jaguar

Big body whips like Shaq car

No credit check, straight Cash Card

Nigga, no stress, I progress

That's Mos Def like Black Star

Seen the future in my Audemars

Stack paper, don't do no facade

[Chorus: Cordae & Roddy Ricch]

Uh, I got a whole lotta people that's been countin' on me

Got this bad lil' shawty goin' down on the D

I met shorty and we connected like the WiFi

Hopped in the Phantom, disappeared like, "Voilà"

I told niggas that I would make it, they said, "No way"

Watch them niggas that might eat up off of your plate

They caught me slidin' on the E-Way with the heat on the seat

I got tennis chains with crosses but I still keep a piece

[Pre-Chorus: Ant Clemons]

Livin' out my dream, my life is different (Different)

If I want it, then I'ma get it (Get it)

Living every day like it was Christmas

'Cause I'm gifted (Ah, ah, ah)

And I know what my gift is (Ah, ah, ah)

And I know that I'm gifted (Ah, ah, ah)

And I know what my gift is (Ah, ah, ah)

'Cause I'm gifted

[Chorus: Cordae & Roddy Ricch]

Uh, I got a whole lotta people that's been countin' on me

Got this bad lil' shawty goin' down on the D

I met shorty and we connected like the WiFi

Hopped in the Phantom, disappeared like, "Voilà"

I told niggas that I would make it, they said, "No way"

Watch them niggas that might eat up off of your plate

They caught me slidin' on the E-Way with the heat on the seat

I got tennis chains with crosses but I still keep a piece

[Outro: Roddy Ricch]

Still keep a piece

Still keep a piece

Still keep a piece

Still keep a piece

Still keep a piece

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Track details

From From a Birds Eye View

2020
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Album
From a Birds Eye View
From a Birds Eye View
Cordae
Release year
2020
  1. —Today
  2. —Sinister
  3. —Parables (Remix)
  4. —Super
  5. —Jean-Michel
  6. —Shiloh’s Interlude
  7. —Westlake High
  8. —Gifted
  9. —Want from Me
  10. —Momma's Hood
  11. —Chronicles
  12. —C Carter
  13. —Champagne Glasses
  14. —Shiloh’s Intro

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Ant Clemons, Bongo ByTheWay, Cordae, Kid Culture, Ray Keys, Roddy Ricch, Tarron Crayton
Lyricist
Cordae
Producer
Bongo ByTheWay, Cordae, Kid Culture, Ray Keys, Russ Chell, Take a Daytrip, Tarron Crayton
Co-Producer
Kid Culture, Ray Keys
A&R Administrator
Joya Nemley
Additional Production
Russ Chell, Take a Daytrip, Tarron Crayton
Artwork
Virgilio Tzaj
Executive Producer
Sal Tarantino
Mastering Engineer
MIKE DEAN
Mixing Engineer
MIKE DEAN, MixedByAli
Programmer
Bongo ByTheWay
Recording Engineer
Bren On The Boards, Chris Dennis
Video Director
Cole Bennett
Video Director Of Photography
Logan Meis, Taylor Randall
Video Editor
Cole Bennett
Video Production Company
Lyrical Lemonade
Video Steadicam Operator
Renard Cheren, Xavier Thompson (Camera)
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