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Elevate by Popcaan

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Popcaan

Elevate

Release date: 19th December 2019

From Vanquish
Track 10
3:50
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About This Track

'Elevate' by Popcaan is a 2019 reggae track from the album 'Vanquish'. The lyrics adopt a confident, streetwise brag, mixing talk of driving up with a luxury image and a party-minded rallying call, as the narrator moves through scenes of status, romance, and self-regard. One short refrain of sorts lands on the swaggering line “Roll dem gyal like black dice”, before the song shifts to a more communal register, ending with an instruction to celebrate life.

"Elevate" is a single by Popcaan, from the album Vanquish, released 19th December 2019. The track is 3:50 long. It's filed under Reggae. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Popcaan

Popcaan

Lyrics

Elevate

Hello?
Yow Notnice
Yeah
Roll dem gyal like black dice
Like Drizzy wi have map ties
Weh! (Map ties)

Badman pull up inna di McLaren
Mi and di killy dem
Whol'ah gyal again
High grade weed deh yah wid di blem
Life ah di greatest ting
From mi famo dem

So, celebrate life one time
Man ah elevate from war and crime
Mi nuh wan' see nuh jail time
Mi ah dream fi rich long before Grade nine
Yeah

From di time guh pull up, every gyal ah drop draws
Wan' mi squeeze up di breast in dem bras
Pocket fulla money, Popa Skull nuh drop guard
When gyal ah bawl fi mi come ah dem yard

Den Notnice
When man ah grow mi never rich enuh
When mi nuh have, mi used to do without
Nuff times mi wan' fi get ah spliff enuh
Mi just ah 20 bag from

Becau' mi know mi haffi mek it out
Ah mek mi mama proud
Mi never trod e wrong road
Never run down weh mi can't afford
Mi did ah learn di code, from over Waterford

So from yuh know seh yuh clean everytime yuh lef' yuh yard
Put yuh cup inna di sky now
And from yuh real to yuh team everyone ah live di dream
Put yuh cup inna di sky now

Mi money nuff
Mi gyal dem nuff
Put yuh cup inna di sky now

Mi money nuff
Mi gun dem nuff
Put yuh cup inna di sky now

So, celebrate life one time
Man ah elevate from war and crime
Mi nuh wan' see nuh jail time
Mi ah dream fi rich long before Grade 9
Yeah
From di time guh pull up, every gyal ah drop draws
Wan' mi squeeze up di breast in dem bras
Pocket fulla money, Popa Skull nuh drop guard
When gyal ah bawl fi mi come ah dem yard

Man high like, ah high flight
Skinny gimmi di highest grade fi [?]
Mi neck ah freeze, like frost bite
Unruly eye dem redder than ah stop light
Gyal weh freaky, when nuh act right
Mi done tell yuh dem ah my type
So mi say baby "Bend it over one time when yuh horny"
Gyal yuh fi hit mi like [?]

So from yuh know seh yuh clean everytime yuh lef' yuh yard
Put yuh cup inna di sky now (Trouble)
And from yuh real to yuh team everyone ah live di dream
Put yuh cup inna di sky now
Mi money nuff
Mi gyal dem nuff
Put yuh cup inna di sky now
Mi money nuff
Mi gun dem nuff
Put yuh cup inna di sky now

So, celebrate life one time
Man ah elevate from war and crime
Mi nuh wan' see nuh jail time
Mi ah dream fi rich long before Grade nine
Yeah

From di time guh pull up, every gyal ah drop draws
Wan' mi squeeze up di breast in dem bras (Yeah)
Pocket fulla money, Popa Skull nuh drop guard
When gyal ah bawl fi mi come ah dem yard

Dem think wi ramp?

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Track details

From Vanquish

3:502019Single
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Vanquish
Vanquish
Popcaan
19th December 2019
Track number
10
Release year
2019
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    2:42
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    4:42
  3. 3Jah Is for Me
    2:51
  4. 4Promise
    3:14

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