Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Yo, yo
Yo, if you gonna hit niggaz girl just expect niggaz to hit your girl
And that's it
112 help me say
[Chorus]
If she got with you when she already had a man
Why wouldn't she cheat on you
Why wouldn't she cheat on you
If she got with you when she already had a man
Why wouldn't she cheat on you
Why wouldn't she cheat on you
Mase come on
If I'm in the streets or I'm in my jeep
And I wit my peep, ex know not to speak
See it's all good, and it's all sweet
All women flirt, all women cheat
So I might spend a week down in Virginia Beach
Out of inner sheets blaze plenty freaks
Be the bad boy everybody want to meet
Practice what I preach, never caught when I cheat
If I didn't work late, I say I was wit my peeps
And quick to tell a hoe, yo I didn't get the beep
And all these girls is quite the same
So it ain't your pencil, it's how you write your name
[Chorus]
Ain't nobody hotter than the jam, don dada
Been around the world with girls at Ramada
Never been the wanted chick, lotta scotta, protta
And yo when Cease got a girl he gotta
Though I love to get a girl that keep her doobie fly
39 in my Benz them niggaz and super size them
Girl talk slick but I see through the lies
You don't got TV, whatcha mean who am I
If I knew what you knew, you wouldn't be givin the pearls
If you know that she cheat why you live with the girl
Have your cats come live in my world
Cause you couldn't picture another nigga hittin your girl
[Chorus]
Is it because my game is stronger, name last longer
On the brain like a whole eighth became
Chicks out mesmerize rub up on they tetas
Like push up bras, who you dealin with ma, it's jigga
You know the rawest, ice is flawless baby
Nice is lawless, recite for ballest
And I fools y'all fake players every time
Cause you only hit chicks that you think is mine
You know I paid his due, but I'm unfatable
Mommi screamin pappi can I skate wit you
They want to ride wit me, stay fly wit me
Want to help me get rid of my rivalries
Want to be the ebony to my ivory
But I'm straight though, thanks ma, I only chase doe
We can lay for tonight but in the mornin
I get Shirley Murrdock, I hope your door slam lock, I'm gone
[Chorus]
Yo, you can't think you gonna be cheatin and the girl ain't gonna
Cheat
Just like you cheat, they could cheat
And I just think, your a fool if you think girls don't cheat
Yo, if you gonna hit niggaz girl just expect niggaz to hit your girl
And that's it
112 help me say
[Chorus]
If she got with you when she already had a man
Why wouldn't she cheat on you
Why wouldn't she cheat on you
If she got with you when she already had a man
Why wouldn't she cheat on you
Why wouldn't she cheat on you
Mase come on
If I'm in the streets or I'm in my jeep
And I wit my peep, ex know not to speak
See it's all good, and it's all sweet
All women flirt, all women cheat
So I might spend a week down in Virginia Beach
Out of inner sheets blaze plenty freaks
Be the bad boy everybody want to meet
Practice what I preach, never caught when I cheat
If I didn't work late, I say I was wit my peeps
And quick to tell a hoe, yo I didn't get the beep
And all these girls is quite the same
So it ain't your pencil, it's how you write your name
[Chorus]
Ain't nobody hotter than the jam, don dada
Been around the world with girls at Ramada
Never been the wanted chick, lotta scotta, protta
And yo when Cease got a girl he gotta
Though I love to get a girl that keep her doobie fly
39 in my Benz them niggaz and super size them
Girl talk slick but I see through the lies
You don't got TV, whatcha mean who am I
If I knew what you knew, you wouldn't be givin the pearls
If you know that she cheat why you live with the girl
Have your cats come live in my world
Cause you couldn't picture another nigga hittin your girl
[Chorus]
Is it because my game is stronger, name last longer
On the brain like a whole eighth became
Chicks out mesmerize rub up on they tetas
Like push up bras, who you dealin with ma, it's jigga
You know the rawest, ice is flawless baby
Nice is lawless, recite for ballest
And I fools y'all fake players every time
Cause you only hit chicks that you think is mine
You know I paid his due, but I'm unfatable
Mommi screamin pappi can I skate wit you
They want to ride wit me, stay fly wit me
Want to help me get rid of my rivalries
Want to be the ebony to my ivory
But I'm straight though, thanks ma, I only chase doe
We can lay for tonight but in the mornin
I get Shirley Murrdock, I hope your door slam lock, I'm gone
[Chorus]
Yo, you can't think you gonna be cheatin and the girl ain't gonna
Cheat
Just like you cheat, they could cheat
And I just think, your a fool if you think girls don't cheat
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Cheat on You Lyrics as written by Mason Betha Shawn Carter
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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