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Doe B

Why

Release date: 14th January 2014

From D.O.A.T. 3 (Definition of a Trapper) [Deluxe Edition]
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About This Track

Doe B confronts loss and contradiction on 'Why', a track that moves between personal grief and existential doubt. The song opens with a litany of unanswered questions: the deaths of friends since childhood, the incarceration of loved ones, the persistence of pain. These are not rhetorical flourishes but the substance of the track, each repetition of the title phrase deepening the sense of bewilderment at a world that keeps taking. The hook settles into a refrain of accumulated hurt. Doe B moves from specific losses to broader anguish, the cold of the world itself becoming another kind of violence. His verse names the dead directly, promises to keep their memory alive, and traces a path from the streets to television that has only bred envy and danger. The logic is circular: survival requires staying armed, but staying armed keeps him in the streets he wants to leave. T.I. enters to complicate the picture further. Where Doe B grieves, T.I. questions his own success, his own hunger, the cost of fame and the ingratitude of those around him. His verse turns inward, asking whether he has already lived his best life, whether the price of prominence was worth paying. The two voices sit uneasily together, bound by the same refrain but speaking from different angles of the same exhaustion.

"Why" is a track by Doe B, from the album D.O.A.T. 3 (Definition of a Trapper) [Deluxe Edition], released 14th January 2014. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Why

[Intro: Doe B]

Yea

I got a lot of questions, no answers man

No

Rest in peace to all my niggas who ain’t here with me

(I don’t know why)

Free all my niggas locked down

Listen I keep it real tho

(I don’t know why)

Aye

(I said I don’t know why)

I don’t know why yall can be like this tho

[Hook: Doe B]

I don’t know why these niggas hatin on me

I don’t know why we still stuck in in these streets

I don’t know why I can’t get no sleep

I don’t know why the pain is runnin so deep

I don’t know why we in a world so cold

I don’t know why he had to take my folks

I don’t know why they had to cage my folks

I don’t know why I hate to say they don’t know

[Verse 1: Doe B]

I don’t know why they had to take Lil Heat

That was my nigga since we were 13

I swear to God everyday still hurts me

I probably would’ve died if they would’ve merk phee

And I don’t know why the devil had to curse me

I don’t why these niggas killed Lil D

I’mma keep yo name alive, you still live through me

Lawd when I die give me bulletproof wings

And just cus I can fly these niggas wanna shoot me

That's why I keep that iron I can’t let em do me

I gotta stay alive, got too many mouths to feed

You can hate it all day still ain’t no stopping me

Gotta change my ways, I can’t be in these streets

I made it all the way to BET & MTV

That’s the number one reason why these niggas envy me

Gotta kill these niggas I can't say i'm killing me

[Hook: Doe B]

[Verse 2: T.I.]

Why I’m so slum to death, till I’m so numb in life?

Some in it say I’m the king, But will I ever survive?

Will I forever be shaking? These suckers rolling the dice

Man would I cherish the fame if God lowered the price?

Have I already been where I’m gon go in my life?

Will everybody who doubted me now be finally right?

Well I don’t give a fuck when kids don’t say I’m dope

Don’t they know that I only do this for Phil, My daughter Leah and Dub

Why am I so so fuckin selfish? Why it’s takin so much?

For me to be happy with myself, why niggas hatin so much?

Why niggas playin with they life? Speaking on my wife

Forgive em for they know not Lord

I’m just prayin for they life

What Doe B did for Montgomery no one could ever take from him

Why they kill him ‘fore he get to the money? Riddle me this

Why my city ain’t shit like it used to be

SOME said ’cause they locked up Meech and T

[Hook: Doe B]

[Outro: T.I.]

Rest in peace to my nigga Doe B

Hustle Gang over everything

CBM what it do?

Aye my nigga we all miss you and we ridin for you partna

And for whatever worth tho you were bossed up at the funeral

Ya know what I mean?

All white errthang, ya dig that?

You see it

Anybody ever lost someone

Then you know the pain we going through

It ain’t over though Doe

I got you partna

You worked too motherfuckin hard, we won’t let this shit go to waste my nigga

We gon get and boss up holmes

Salute!

Hustle Gang, GDOD

CBM, that’s what it is nigga

Yea

(x2)

(I don’t know why

I don’t know why

I said I don’t know why)

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From D.O.A.T. 3 (Definition of a Trapper) [Deluxe Edition]

2014
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  • Credits

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    Writer
    Doe B, Soopa L, T.I.
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    Soopa L
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