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Future

Karate Chop

Release date: 8th November 2012

From F.B.G: The Movie
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About This Track

'Karate Chop' anchors Future's 2013 mixtape 'F.B.G: The Movie' with a Metro Boomin production that became one of the Atlanta rapper's early signature tracks. The song's title gesture, chopping bricks like karate, runs through a lyric built on luxury-car shorthand and coded drug-trade imagery, Future adopting the posture of street-level hustler turned aspirational figure. The chorus name-checks John Gotti and Michael Jackson in the same breath, conflating mob mythology with pop-star excess. The verses catalogue material accumulation in blunt inventory style: Panamera, Maserati, fifty-thousand-dollar watches, Ace of Spade bottles. Future's delivery stays flat and hypnotic over Metro's sparse, menacing beat, the repetition of 'young nigga' and 'a lot of' phrases lending the track a mantra-like insistence. The codeine references and styrofoam-cup imagery that would become central to his sound are already present, the drug use framed as both fuel and reward for the grind the song describes.

"Karate Chop" is a track by Future, from the album F.B.G: The Movie, released 8th November 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Future

Future

Lyrics

Karate Chop

[Intro: Future]

You know

This just some real nigga shit, a real nigga story

You know what I'm saying?

This beat is so, so Metro

[Chorus: Future]

Slang a bunch of narcotics

Pull up in a new 'Rari

Living like John Gotti

Chopping bricks like karate

Drink a bunch of codeine

Serving to the dope fiends

Blowing money, stay clean

Michael Jackson, Billie Jean

[Verse 1: Future]

Got a Panamera 'round a young nigga neck

Got a young bitch pulling up in a 'Vette

Smoke a lot of kush & I have a lot of sex

Had to beat the grind up, ran up my check

Picture nigga getting money, nigga, get back (back)

Roll a blunt of chronic, nigga sell a lot of crack (crack)

You can hit a nigga line, order what you want

I can whip a Maserati, pulling up a donk (donk)

50 thousand on yo watch, young nigga, splurge (splurge)

Pop a Ace of Spade bottle, sip a lot of syrup (syrup)

Keep a young nigga workin' that'll bust a K (K)

I'ma take a phone call, hustle everyday (everyday)

[Chorus: Future]

Ayy

Slang a bunch of narcotics

Pull up in a new 'Rari (Yea)

Living like John Gotti (The mob)

Chopping bricks like karate (Chwaaa, chwaaa)

Drink a bunch of codeine (Drank)

Serving to the dope fiends (They smokers)

Blowing money, stay clean (Freebandz)

Michael Jackson, Billie Jean

[Verse 2: Future]

Whipping up a cake, just to go and snatch a Spyder (Spyder)

Young nigga play with keys (keys), like a type writer

Al Capone, John Gotti was a nigga idol

I was never snitching, I can put it on the Bible

In a four-door Bimmer, driving with a rifle

Nigga, where you at? (at) nigga, we gon' pull up on ya

Young bitch looking like Janet in the '80s ('80s)

We was grinding up from two and a baby (oh)

Got the girl dripping wet like a jerry curl (curl)

Got a styrofoam cup and it's full of syrup

Send it over from Lil' Mexico and let me work (lets work)

I can get 36 for a clean shirt (shirt)

[Chorus: Future]

Ayy

Slang a bunch of narcotics

Pull up in a new 'Rari (Yea)

Living like John Gotti (The mob)

Chopping bricks like karate (Chwaaa, chwaaa)

Drink a bunch of codeine (Drank)

Serving to the dope fiends (They smokers)

Blowing money, stay clean (Freebandz)

Michael Jackson, Billie Jean (Who bad?)

[Verse 3: Casino]

Pull up, serve you in my 'Rari

Money like I'm Frank Matthews

Killers around me like I'm Gotti

If I tricked you, know I'm sorry

I be fresh, don't need no stylist

I be geeking on them Mollies

Sell remix, don't sell no clean

My hand like a triple beam

I got workers like machine

All I do is sell dreams

Half my niggas serve fiends

I get up and then I lean

[Chorus: Future]

Ayy

Slang a bunch of narcotics

Pull up in a new 'Rari (Yea)

Living like John Gotti (The mob)

Chopping bricks like karate (Chwaaa, chwaaa)

Drink a bunch of codeine (Drank)

Serving to the dope fiends (They smokers)

Blowing money, stay clean (Freebandz)

Michael Jackson, Billie Jean

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From F.B.G: The Movie

2012
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2012
  1. —Big Rube
  2. —Billionaire Minds
  3. —Back at It
  4. —See It to Believe It
  5. —You Wonder
  6. —Muphucka
  7. —Mark McGwire
  8. —Cee-Lo
  9. —Everything Ours
  10. —Freeband Taliban
  11. —INTL Swagger
  12. —Missing
  13. —Keep on Shinin’
  14. —Chosen One
  15. —Finessin
  16. —Fo' Real
  17. —Karate Chop
  18. —Whip Game
  19. —DNA
  20. —Intro
  21. —Appeal

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