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E-40

Function (Remix)

Release date: 24th August 2012

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About This Track

E-40 assembles a roster of collaborators for this remix, bringing Problem, Young Jeezy, Chris Brown, French Montana and Red Cafe into the fold. The track moves through a series of verses and a repeating chorus centred on the idea of getting down to business, with E-40 opening his verse by arriving at the function dressed sharp, diamonds catching light. He trades boasts about style and conquest with sharper observations about the shift from street dealing to legitimate digital sales, grounding the song's swagger in a narrative of evolution from Vallejo to legitimate enterprise. The remix trades on a straightforward energy: a hook that lands the same refrain across multiple repetitions, verses that stack braggadocio and detail without much melodic variation. E-40's contribution sits somewhere between flex and autobiography, the specificity of his references to place and commerce cutting through what might otherwise be pure posturing.

"Function (Remix)" is a single by E-40, released 24th August 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

E-40

E-40

Lyrics

Function (Remix)

[Intro]

This is the remix

(League of Starz)

(Trend on the beat)

[Chorus: Problem, E-40]

Ayy, ayy, bitch, try this

Guaranteed turn a square to a bi bitch

You ain't down, b-b-bye bitch

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function, function

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function, function

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh)

[Verse 1: E-40]

I slid into the function (The throw)

Lookin' hella dipped (Saucy)

Lit like a strobe light (Like a strobe light?)

Hella diamonds on my wrist (Bling)

You can call me Your Highness 'cause I'm hella high in this (Bling)

Play with her mind like a shrink, like I'm a psychiatrist (Shrink)

No dryness, I make your chick have a climax (Cream)

Even nicer wet, she tellin' me that I'm the best (Scream, ah)

You don't want her, I'll take her off your hands and do you a favor (Favor)

You might not regret it now, but you gon' regret it later (Later)

I'm about my paper, stapler right on the side of my hip (Hip)

In case a hater want it, in case he decide to trip (Baow)

Platinum plannin', shippin' and handlin', see these are digital sales (Digital sales)

Used to push E up from the scale, but now it's legitimate skrill

You ain't understand it? Tell this game evolved, I'm from the Hills (From the Hills)

Vallejo, Cali-hari to H-I double L (Double L, biatch)

[Chorus: Problem, E-40]

Ayy, ayy, bitch, try this

Guaranteed turn a square to a bi bitch

You ain't down, b-b-bye bitch

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function, function

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function, function

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Rip the game up, Jeezy)

[Verse 2: Jeezy]

Don't compare me to niggas, I'm the last of my kind (Kind)

Get forever through these bars, ever lastin' my grind (Yeah)

If it ain't about money, then you wastin' my time (Time)

Mix the molly with the liquor, now get out of your mind (Yeah)

Gotta do this one for the town, it's town business (Ayy)

I don't even fuck with these clowns, they clown niggas (Uh)

In the city where the dealers go broke, they turn killers

And all the bad bitches got all the hoes, they like niggas (Damn)

In the city where we gon' do broke, we like figures (That's right)

Get that bag, then we goin' to work like Jay Bilas (Woo)

We out here tryna function, tryna maintain (Maintain)

So, nigga, don't judge me, told the judge the same thang (Yeah)

So, nigga, guess who's up in the club with the four nickel? (Nickel)

Man, I stay on the point like icicles (Young)

If I die tonight, bring me back at the Coachella ('Chella)

Sick and tired of tellin' these hoes I'm that nigga, huh (Yeah)

[Chorus: Problem, Chris Brown, E-40]

Ayy, ayy, bitch, try this

Guaranteed turn a square to a bi bitch

You ain't down, b-b-bye bitch

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function, function

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function, function (Hahaha, haha)

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man (Talk to 'em, Chris Brown, yeah)

We out here tryna function

[Verse 3: Chris Brown]

Look, got bad bitches (Uh), they ratchet (What? Ratchet)

Bet the ding make them sing like a ad-lib (Yeah, haha)

And all this money, watch me flip it like a back flip (Ha-ha-ha)

I'ma go to work on the pussy, no practice (Yeah)

Ha, all my real niggas in the four-door (Yeah)

Bottles in the air, we don't care about no ho (No ho), no ho (No ho)

Yeah, shout out my nigga D-Lo (Yeah)

Girl, I know you want two, but I need about three, four

Yeah, pretty girls in the crib (What?)

I know they all models, that's just how a nigga live (Do it)

I'm like woah, when she do the splits (Haha)

And when she throw it back, nigga, don't act like a bitch

My niggas in the club with the .40

We just showed up with E-40, we like, "What's happenin', woadie?"

In the function, ain't no competition, killin' opponents

And I be killin' the pussy, but this is just for the moment, yikes

[Chorus: Problem, French Montana, E-40]

Ayy, ayy, bitch, try this

Guaranteed turn a square to a bi bitch

You ain't down, b-b-bye bitch

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function, function

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function, function (E-40, what up?)

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man (What's hatnin', French?)

We out here tryna function (Ayy, haan)

[Verse 4: French Montana]

Rockin' and rollin' 'til five in the mornin' (Haan)

She poppin' a pill, then she bustin' it open (Haan)

Like, bitch, try this, I'm a high risk

A bankroll, four, five, six (Cha-ching)

She chasin' the yak, with a clip in the MAC

For my Oakland niggas that be pimpin' to rap (Haan)

I'm a New York nigga with a bailey (Haan)

Kept it in the hood, fuck the mainstream (Haan)

Wrist rocky, I'm talkin' Adrian (Haan)

Me and 40 run up on ya like the A-train (Haan)

Man, we out here tryna function, fuck all the fuck shit

Rip it off the rack, fuck what it cost ya, Montana (Ayy-Ayy-Ayy)

[Chorus: Problem, E-40]

Ayy, ayy, bitch, try this

Guaranteed turn a square to a bi bitch

You ain't down, b-b-bye bitch

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function, function

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function, function

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man (Red Cafe, holla at 'em, pimp)

We out here tryna function

[Verse 5: Red Cafe]

Real nigga from born day (Yup)

Fall through, ten hoes to your soirée (Ah)

Whole team in this ho lookin' saucy

Bitches off the molly, my niggas on the Marley

Hold up, we out here tryna function, bitch

All this jewelry, a nigga got from hustlin', bitch (Ah)

Got them thang-thangs comin' through custom, bitch

See the money on the table, no touchin' it (What else?)

Cafe, I'm the pimp of the decade (Yeah)

Young G's write about me in they essay (Ah)

Kill Def Jams (Yup) in my Cool-Js (Yup)

Have my paper or they moppin' up your Kool-Aid (Ah)

I like your hoes (Yeah), them live hoes (Yeah)

Beat it up, beat it up, make 'em my hoes (Ha)

It's bossed up on the Eastside

Dubs up how them G's ride, shakedown

[Chorus: Problem, Red Cafe]

Ayy, ayy, bitch, try this (Yeah)

Guaranteed turn a square to a bi bitch (Uh)

You ain't down, b-b-bye bitch

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function, man, we out here tryna function, function

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function

We out here tryna function (Uh), man, we out here tryna function, function

I ain't got time for playin', I'm just sayin', man

We out here tryna function

[Outro]

This is the remix

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