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Special by Future

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Future

Special

Release date: 22nd April 2014

From Honest (Deluxe)
Hip-Hop/Rap
Music
Dirty South
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About This Track

Future and Young Scooter trade verses on a track built around the refrain that ambition without action amounts to nothing. The song moves between boasts about material success and warnings about the cost of chasing it, with Future cycling through images of ascent: from street-level hustling to private planes, from crumbs to bricks, from nothing to millions. The production sits in the trap pocket, letting the verses breathe. What gives the track its edge is the tension between celebration and caution. Future's voice carries both, shifting from the swagger of someone who's made it to the sharper observation that hangers-on and false friends will circle once the money arrives. Young Scooter's presence anchors the opening and chorus, reinforcing the idea that this kind of success belongs only to those willing to do the work. The refrain lands harder each time: you ain't even trying to be special.

"Special" is a track by Future, from the album Honest (Deluxe), released 22nd April 2014. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Future

Future

Lyrics

Special

[Intro: Young Scooter & Future]

Freeband Gang

It's only the chosen ones

That come from nothing and make millions (Count Up)

And continue doing it

(Go to work, nigga)

[Chorus: Future & Young Scooter]

You ain't even tryna be special (Jugg, nigga)

You ain't even tryna be special (Go to work)

You ain't even tryna be special (Yeah)

I thought you was someone special (Jugg)

[Verse 1: Future & Young Scooter]

You keep breaking down in front of me

How thats gon' look to my niggas when they honor me

I set the tone of this i can't let no one intervene

You can't take my pressure you probably be done blowed your brain

These bitches wanna use everything I worked for the fame

You know the dues I paid but the money drive 'em insane

They wanna go to court and sue me and take everything

This devil working on yo niggas and they taking aim

I’m on a high and I'ma stay up here right with the planes

You got a Grammy and young nigga on that purple drank

I'm a motherfucking astronaut and I'm untamed

I made a million off of metro ask the dope game

I booked the show up and rock the show up like some cocaine (Remix)

[Chorus: Future & Young Scooter]

You ain't even tryna be special (Count Up)

You ain't even tryna be special

You ain't even tryna be special (Gotta jugg, nigga)

I thought you was someone special

[Verse 2: Future]

I bag bitches, Birkin bag on bad bitches

Rags to riches I had it never lost it

I stayed at it I stayed flossing

I been sleeping' in dope houses

My mind wasn't even there nigga

I'm rare nigga

I been there nigga starving

My confidence been there nigga

When I was serving off them quarters

You wouldn't even though we had a plug

You wouldn't even think we had a plug

From crumbs to bricks I been special (I been special)

From crumbs to bricks I been special

We here nigga

They counted us out we bounce back nigga

Now they back round with us

Like they was hustlin' back wit us

When we was puttin' that real on top fake in the middle

Turn that cake into some ice nigga

Its Black Migo for life, nigga

Black Migo Gang, we here, the original, salute

[Chorus: Future & Young Scooter]

You ain't even tryna be special (Jugg)

You ain't even tryna be special (Go to work, nigga)

You ain't even tryna be special (Jugg)

I thought you was someone special (Count up)

[Verse 3: Future]

His momma hate me, her mamma hate me, they hate I made it

They love when I struggle, they love when I suffer

I got all the scars to prove it

I took my scars and made a movie

I got all my niggas with me through the bad and the good

I got all my jewels on me and I'm still in the hood

I can never stop from grinding cause I made it out the mud

I can never forget when I was on the block selling drugs

Codeine calm my nerves I was getting high since a kid

I took all my problems and I turned it all into hits

I can channel my anger now I can go make me some billions

They trynna' predict my next move but I say fuck politics

Long as I stick to the formula I'm never gon' switch

Freeband gang for life thats the blueprint

[Chorus: Future & Young Scooter]

You ain't even tryna be special (Go to work, nigga)

You ain't even tryna be special (Jugg)

You ain't even tryna be special (Freeband Gang)

I thought you was someone special (Jugg)

[Outro: Young Scooter]

Jugg

Jugg

Count up

Young Scooter

Black Migo Gang

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Track details

From Honest (Deluxe)

2014
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Album
Honest (Deluxe)
Honest (Deluxe)
Future
Release year
2014
  1. 1Look Ahead
    3:33
  2. 2T-Shirt
    3:35
  3. 3Move That Dope (feat. Pharrell Williams, Pusha T & Casino)
    5:40
  4. 4My Momma (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
    3:41
  5. 5Honest
    3:20
  6. 6I Won (feat. Kanye West)
    4:00
  7. 7Never Satisfied (feat. Drake)
    1:56
  8. 8I Be U
    3:53
  9. 9Covered n Money
    3:36
  10. 10Special (feat. Young Scooter)
    4:59
  11. 11Benz Friendz (Whatchutola) [feat. André 3000]
    4:41
  12. 12Blood, Sweat, Tears
    4:23
  13. 13Big Rube Speaks (feat. Big Rube)
    1:07
  14. 14Side Effects
    2:00
  15. 15I'll Be Yours
    3:01
  16. 16How Can I Not (feat. Young Scooter)
    3:59
  17. 17Sh!t
    4:50
  18. 18Karate Chop (Remix) [feat. Lil Wayne]
    4:36
  19. —Move That Dope
  20. —Never Satisfied
  21. —Look Ahead
  22. —T-Shirt
  23. —Side Effects
  24. —I'll Be Yours
  25. —I Won
  26. —Special
  27. —Covered N Money
  28. —How Can I Not
  29. —Sh!t
  30. —Benz Friendz (Whatchutola)
  31. —I Be U
  32. —My Momma
  33. —Blood, Sweat, Tears
  34. —Big Rube Speaks

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