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Dave East

Recognize

Release date: 2013

From Gemini
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About This Track

"Recognize" is a track by Dave East, from the album Gemini, released 2013. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Dave East

Dave East

Lyrics

Recognize

[Chorus]

Welcome to the life that we livin'

Bad bitches and everybody chillin'

Never can forget the nights we didn't have shit up in the kitchen

Now they all lookin' at us different

I recognize it

[Verse 1]

The right attire my style ignite the fire

Different nights on the islands my aura is just admired

Admiral David Rob the trap was my favorite job

Waking up hit the ball while Cash would go hit the malls

Vision clearer than Fiji, knocking Stop Being Greedy

I DM my ex like bitch see me when you see me

Cuff links on the wrist, black suits like the mafia

My whole life been popular can't see me with binoculars

Oh lord I'm confident look at me showing off in the 'jects

Too much was on the power was going off

Tell you about my past days, nights I used to bag haze

Nas was that nigga then, everybody had fades

Lets get this cake up, mack bitches no makeup

Mr. Chows paper but still eating at Jacobs

Audemars now we used to hustle for Jacobs

Flipping OZ's was as easy as scoring layups, pay up

[Chorus]

Welcome to the life that we livin'

Bad bitches and everybody chillin'

Never can forget the nights we didn't have shit up in the kitchen

Now they all lookin' at us different

I recognize it

[Verse 2]

Youngin's ice grilling me, oh you not feeling me?

Fine, it cost you nothing, pay me no mind

Loc was in the trap, other building shaving those dimes

Exquisite vision but I could always relate to those times

Got my mind on my revenue, everything on schedule

Finding out shit about places that we never knew

Even in London they fuck with the kid

It's kinda hard to see the hate with all the love that I get

My niggas in QB will make you jump off the bridge

Smoking cigars macking in a comfortable crib

More respect than the money but that's only for now

Taking my niggas up that was holding me down

Champagne and car service if we rolling around

Eating lobsters out the car keep them choppers after dark

Keep the same way of thinking til' I go in the ground

Besides that I'm prolly writing raps blowing a pound

[Chorus]

Welcome to the life that we livin'

Bad bitches and everybody chillin'

Never can forget the nights we didn't have shit up in the kitchen

Now they all lookin' at us different

I recognize it

[Verse 3]

Chandeliers, Versace, my fam in here

Nights at the Waldorf Astoria me and Gloria

Park Ave speeding, dark past leading to a bright future

Stay calm he might shoot ya

I learned that without a tool there in the ghetto cops took hope

Instead of learning English we was learning how to cook coke

Been gifted since a newborn, kick it with no shoes on

Blow that paper move on, kush husky like UConn

Dressed in all black, elegant

10 twin Suburbans like the President

Rookie in my age but my verses shock the veterans

We was into measuring bagging up and selling it

Never was I hesitant

They say the meek shall inherit the earth

I'm tryna touch a couple billion 'less they bury me first

My mean bitch 40 on her where she carry her purse

The same niggas used to hate me now they ask for a verse

[Chorus] (x2)

Welcome to the life that we livin'

Bad bitches and everybody chillin'

Never can forget the nights we didn't have shit up in the kitchen

Now they all lookin' at us different

I recognize it

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2013
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