Testo Our Story - r.city
Testo della canzone Our Story (r.city), tratta dall'album What Dreams Are Made Of (Japan Version)
Yo, growing up in the Virgin Islands
You know it's real reggae driven, real calypso driven
But believe it or not, you know me and my brother
We grew up listening to hip-hop music
Like our parents was like the cool kids
Like they loved hip-hop music
And you know we ain't never really wanted to rap or nothing
Until the Fugees came out
That's when it all changed
See that was the first time we wanted to get on stage
I was nervous, my brother wasn't afraid
We both was at a very young age
Mom and dad worked hard for that five dollars an hour minimum wage
They treated our folks like they were slaves
But they did whatever they had to to keep food on the plate
So we made a promise that somehow, someway
We was gon' make it up out of this ghetto one day
Maybe 'cause we were locals
Probably why promoters felt like we didn't deserve to get paid
We were loved by some, hated by many
Years passed growing up, now we just met Benny
Fan base started growing, still wasn't making a penny
That's not even half a mile in my shoes
We became the biggest group while we were still only in high school
But we ain't settle so right after we graduated we moved
All we've ever wanted to do
Is get to a better tomorrow
So much in our hearts to prove
To get to a better tomorrow
So look, at this point we like the biggest group in the Virgin Islands
And I remember we left with egos
Like we really thought we was gon' move
To the States and we was 'bout to blow up
And of course you know it ain't happen like that
So I remember my brother got his ticket, he left
I had a buddy pass, lost my buddy pass
My mama took her last money and got me that plane ticket
So now we in the M.I.A
Shout out to my cousin Oshana for giving us a place to stay
My homie Verse stayed right around the corner with his moms
My uncle Trent stayed twenty minutes away
Now me and my brother and Verse
Was running through the streets of Miami
Grinding, seeing as though we couldn't get work
Then a radio battle rap show
With Big Lipp and Super Cindy was the only way that we got heard
See we skipped college, ain't with that blue collar
Was only chasing our dreams, ain't never chase dollars
And we was on fire when we left St. Thomas
Went to Miami thinking we was gon' get more hotter
But that didn't happen at all
We knew that we needed to leave and
It was between Atlanta and New York
Then our tickets got bought to come to the A to rock a show
If that wasn't a sign I don't know what it was
So they paid us three-fifty to perform in a club
So we packed up our bags like "Here we come"
And we were fresh out of high school, still very young
But this was our dream, to some we were dumb
All we've ever wanted to do
Is get to a better tomorrow
So much in our hearts to prove
To get to a better tomorrow
Aight, so I know y'all heard me mention Benny name on the first verse
And for those who don't know, Benny is Akon's DJ, DJ Benny D
And you know we all came up together in the
Virgin Islands trying to chase this dream
And at this point now we're all together in the States like
Yo, man we gotta really go hard or go home
'Cause this is it right here
So we went to Atlanta and decided we wasn't gon' leave
With twenty dollars in the pocket of some old jeans
Came across a few salesmen that sold dreams
But we wasn't gon' quit, uh-uh, by no means
We started meeting with labels and we were laughed at
Like "You from an island trying to rap? Go home please"
Started doing talent shows to win money just to keep the lights on
And bring home a little groceries
Buzz started growing, Atlanta started showing mad love
So we just kept on going
Deals on the table now, Akon blowing up
And hand bottles from everybody who know him
Did the deal with Confet, then Losing It dropped
Still here standing even after Losing It flopped
They wanted us to sing, no rapping, straight pop
That's just some of the reasons why that album ain't dropping
I ain't trying to get props, all I want is my shot
Our chance to blow and probably make it to the top
And at least I can say that we tried if we fail
Plus the fans ain't never cared 'bout first week sales
All we've ever wanted to do
Is get to a better tomorrow
So much in our hearts to prove
To get to a better tomorrow
Aight, so there's still a few pieces that I missed
So when we first moved to Atlanta
You know we was 'bout to sign to Organized Noize
And I just gotta shout out the homies Rico Wade and Ray
Because you know they embraced us and showed us mad love for real
You know we represent second generation Dungeon Family all day
And then um, you know so that didn't really work out
And then we just got back on our talent show grind
And like straight up we was just doing talent shows
Because we know that you could win money
And we just was like "Yo, this is how we gon' pay our bills
This how we gon' survive"
And we started winning so much that they
Told us we couldn't compete no more
And we was like "Damn, aight now we
Gotta try to figure something else out"
And um, you know everything didn't really start changing for us
'Til we met our manager Ray Daniels
And he was a young hungry up and coming nigga from Atlanta
Just you know trying to make it, same way we was
So you know something, I'ma let my brother come
In here and finish out the rest of the story
Yeah, so what my brother forgot to mention
I gotta go back a little bit is when we first got to Atlanta
We didn't really have no place to live
So you know what I'm saying we kinda was like
Sleeping on the MARTA train and shit
And we would you know stay there for a couple days or whatever
And then we got to stay in a studio
And we would sleep there on a couch
Like my head on one end, his head on the other end
You know what I'm saying
And we would take showers in the bathroom in the sink
You know what I'm saying?
When we, when we could, when we had to get fresh and shit
'Cause we lived in the studio
Now we can fast forward to later on
We met these producers that we were working with
And we was working on an album
And something happened to where we had to move back to St. Thomas
Now when we left St. Thomas we was poppin'
We was like big and still thought of as a big deal
And had to move back to St. Thomas
'Cause my daughter was born and I was broke and I ain't had nothing
You know what I'm saying?
My baby mama saying like
"Nigga you ain't really shit 'cause you don't help out"
And I was like damn man, like I got
Like what am I gonna do?
Like all I've ever been good at is music
Like you know, we didn't go to college
We, we just was singing
So we moved back to St. Thomas man
And we got jobs at the ice cream shop
Now embarrassed as hell that we gotta work at the ice cream shop
'Cause people coming in there still trying to take pictures
Like "Yo what happened to y'all? What y'all doing?"
Like you know, "I thought y'all was doing music in the States
Like y'all was about to be big time"
And we was like "Uh man, you know, we just grinding"
So we stayed there for six months and saved money
And came back to Atlanta like "Yo, bam"
Got our own apartment
And you know we paid six months rent in advance
And we was like "Yo in six months we about to take over"
Well that didn't work out, you know what I'm saying?
So now we hooking up with Ray
But we wanna work with Ray and Ray wanna work with us
But everybody telling us not to work with Ray
And everybody telling Ray not to work with us
So one day we was just like
"Man fuck it man, we been friends before music nigga
We gon' work together"
And you know Ray would just take us around the city
You know what I'm saying?
In his black Tahoe and be like
"Yo man just give the guys five minutes, they dope"
Man we heard every negative thing you can hear about an artist
About ourselves
And Ray was like "Man don't listen to them niggas man
Y'all some of the most talented people I ever met"
So we just grinding
And I quit my job at Party City just randomly one day
And um, started going to the studio every day
Like in there
My brother kept his job
Anyway, while we in there now
I wrote four hundred songs
We only sold one, "Music for Love" for Mario
So when we start selling songs as songwriters
Me and my brother's like "Oh shit"
So now everybody's coming
You know we got publishers coming
Now people trying to sign us as artists
We doing talent shows
We got Atlanta rocking
You know, it's turning around
So we did our deal with Konvict Muzik
You know what I mean?
And then we signed to Interscope Records
So we was there for four years, finally got off
And then you know, at one point
You know Ray just came in and said
"I know this gon' be drastic man
But y'all should just change y'all name"
So we changed our name to Planet 6
And put out like two independent free albums
The American Dream and American Nightmare
You know what I'm saying?
You can still find those online if you wanna go check 'em out
But we was getting so much leaks from songwriting
It would be pop songs, R&B songs, reggae songs
Everybody's like "Yo what, what the
What the fuck is these niggas on?"
It was so confusing
So we was like "Yo let's try something different"
And when that didn't work
Or didn't really get us where we felt we wanted to get
Ray was like "Look man, I think y'all
Should just stop being artists man
And focus on writing man
That's how we paying our bills
That's how we taking care of our family
I think y'all should just say fuck it"
And we was like "Yeah"
We was like "Cool man, like shit, let's just write songs"
And we just started writing, you know what I'm saying?
And this, we just went crazy
Like "Pour It Up," Rihanna
"We Can't Stop," Miley Cyrus
"Shower," Becky G
Like, like "I Don't Mind," Usher
Like we was just going crazy
Only nigga, we was going crazy like on the writing
And this one um, A&R, Chris Anokute
He was just like "Yo man, y'all ever work with Dr. Luke?"
We was like "Nah"
He was like "Man if y'all got with Luke, y'all would be out of here"
And we had another mutual friend named Bruise Chambers
Because they set up a meeting with us with Luke
And it was just like, Bruise was like
"Yo, oh you about to work with Rock City?
Oh my God, yo, on they artist shit right?"
Luke was like "They artist? What?
I mean if you like they writing bruh
They artist shit is way better"
Wow, you know what I mean?
So we met with Luke
We got in and working on Becky G
Latin sister from another mister, ha
And while working on that like
Swear to God like just in the middle of working on all of that
Luke just says
"Yo, y'all wanna work on some music for y'all self?"
So much in our hearts to prove
To get to a better tomorrow
Credits
Writer(s): Lukasz Gottwald, Timothy Jamahli Thomas, Theron Makiel Thomas, Jevon Lendrick Hill, Henry Russell Walter
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