"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Yeah, that'll do it
Yeah, I love hip hop
I love this mutha fuckin hip hop game
This nigga here is a little nigga man
Stay in your mother fucking lane nigga
You fucking with the Don nigga
Folow me
Fifty, meet Fifty, he's the fakest thug you've ever seen
Curtis, Curtis Jackson, how come you can never ever be seen
Once I got you, I'm gonna get give you
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
I'm going to give it to you baby, nice and slow
Fifty you goin to end up dead when you fuckin with crack
Talk about your girl pop off, where the fuck you be at
I see MJ in the hood more than Curtis
Matter of fact, this beef shit is making niggaz nervous
It's gonna be families grieving every sunday service
End up with your head popped off thanks to Curtis
But he dont care, he's still locked up in the house and shit
Steroid up and he wont come about that bitch
Is it me or does candy shop sound like magic stick?
In the video, this nigga fifty bout to strip
Shakin his ass, what the fuck is wrong with this nigga
Fifty don't make me
Oh yeah, you got sixty-five niggaz on your team
And they're not from Southside Jamaica, Queens
They're the boys in blue, and I'm just speaking the truth
Yeah we all see the bitch in you
Follow me
Fifty, meet Fifty, he's the fakest thug you've ever seen
Curtis, Curtis Jackson, how come you can never ever be seen
Once I got you, I'm gonna get give you
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
I'm going to give it to you baby, nice and slow
Now let's take it back to Vibe awards
Where that nigga disrespect and then snuffed your balls
A minute ago, all I heard was G-G-G-Unit
Fifty niggaz ran and they didn't even do shit
That's a shame, I was sitting right in the front
Waiting for you niggaz to dunk
Where are all your guns and them teflon vests?
We them terror squad boys
You should know not to test us
Hate it or love it, The Game's on top
Now you jealous of him, when your shit going to stop?
You've seen me before
Yous a bitch nigga straight out of low cash
And they don't believe him, this nigga is so ass
You dissed lean back, said my shit was a dud
Now tell me, have you ever seen 'em up in the club?
No, no, no shawty
That's right, you see them more than you rappin
Now Fifty that ain't right
Fifty, meet Fifty, he's the fakest thug you've ever seen
Curtis, Curtis Jackson, how come you can never ever be seen
Once I got you, I'm gonna get give you
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
I'm going to give it to you baby, nice and slow
I know what y'all thinkin man
Y'all thinkin JD gonna slam lyrically
This nigga be crazy for dissin' Fat Joe man
He really crazy tho
This nigga be walkin around with twenty cops talking shit on records
And never comin out of his house
Feel like he can't get touched man
I'm gonna respond one time, one time only
It ain't gonna be more songs for me man
This is for all the mutha fuckers who died of crack
Trust me, make a response ten thousand times
I ain't talkin back to that nigga
One thing I will promise you
That's it man
This is crack bitch
It's gonna be a real ugly summer man
Yeah, I love hip hop
I love this mutha fuckin hip hop game
This nigga here is a little nigga man
Stay in your mother fucking lane nigga
You fucking with the Don nigga
Folow me
Fifty, meet Fifty, he's the fakest thug you've ever seen
Curtis, Curtis Jackson, how come you can never ever be seen
Once I got you, I'm gonna get give you
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
I'm going to give it to you baby, nice and slow
Fifty you goin to end up dead when you fuckin with crack
Talk about your girl pop off, where the fuck you be at
I see MJ in the hood more than Curtis
Matter of fact, this beef shit is making niggaz nervous
It's gonna be families grieving every sunday service
End up with your head popped off thanks to Curtis
But he dont care, he's still locked up in the house and shit
Steroid up and he wont come about that bitch
Is it me or does candy shop sound like magic stick?
In the video, this nigga fifty bout to strip
Shakin his ass, what the fuck is wrong with this nigga
Fifty don't make me
Oh yeah, you got sixty-five niggaz on your team
And they're not from Southside Jamaica, Queens
They're the boys in blue, and I'm just speaking the truth
Yeah we all see the bitch in you
Follow me
Fifty, meet Fifty, he's the fakest thug you've ever seen
Curtis, Curtis Jackson, how come you can never ever be seen
Once I got you, I'm gonna get give you
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
I'm going to give it to you baby, nice and slow
Now let's take it back to Vibe awards
Where that nigga disrespect and then snuffed your balls
A minute ago, all I heard was G-G-G-Unit
Fifty niggaz ran and they didn't even do shit
That's a shame, I was sitting right in the front
Waiting for you niggaz to dunk
Where are all your guns and them teflon vests?
We them terror squad boys
You should know not to test us
Hate it or love it, The Game's on top
Now you jealous of him, when your shit going to stop?
You've seen me before
Yous a bitch nigga straight out of low cash
And they don't believe him, this nigga is so ass
You dissed lean back, said my shit was a dud
Now tell me, have you ever seen 'em up in the club?
No, no, no shawty
That's right, you see them more than you rappin
Now Fifty that ain't right
Fifty, meet Fifty, he's the fakest thug you've ever seen
Curtis, Curtis Jackson, how come you can never ever be seen
Once I got you, I'm gonna get give you
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
My, My, 4 4 4 4
I'm going to give it to you baby, nice and slow
I know what y'all thinkin man
Y'all thinkin JD gonna slam lyrically
This nigga be crazy for dissin' Fat Joe man
He really crazy tho
This nigga be walkin around with twenty cops talking shit on records
And never comin out of his house
Feel like he can't get touched man
I'm gonna respond one time, one time only
It ain't gonna be more songs for me man
This is for all the mutha fuckers who died of crack
Trust me, make a response ten thousand times
I ain't talkin back to that nigga
One thing I will promise you
That's it man
This is crack bitch
It's gonna be a real ugly summer man
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"hate it or love it the Games ontop" ha ha datz cold he got 50 bad!!!
"hate it or love it the Games ontop" ha ha datz cold he got 50 bad!!!
The song's called My Fo Fo, plz comment on the real title if u ever know anything