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”
Yeah
Migos
First kicked the door when I was seventeen years old (seventeen, woo)
Seen my first fifty, ballin', eighteen years old (eighteen, fifty)
Let that pistol go when I was nineteen years old (nineteen, uh)
First time I turned twenty, I was cashin' out on gold (uh, gang)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, go, rich nigga, uh)
Rich nigga timeline, ye ain't live your life like mine (nah, no)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, uh, rich, go)
Rich nigga timeline, stay the fuck up out of mine (uh, stay out it, go)
Free my nigga Westside, locked up to this day (free)
R.I.P. my migo P, my nigga dead in the grave (P)
And I dare a fuck nigga come and try me today (bah-bah)
Abracadabra his face
Quavo the magician, the pack gone it's missin'
I got a ho and she got a hoe and now they both kissin'
Do you remember, the life I was livin'?
I'm callin' the plug, I'm juugin' up pounds, I'm breakin' down midget
I got the birds, pigeons (I got the pigeons)
They know who the fuck run the city (Nawfside)
I might pull up with that chopper and extensions (I got the 'xtensions)
I just let it off, I empty about fifty
Mama said, "Quavo don't spend all your Benjis" (momma)
Told mama, "I'm sorry, pockets on infinity"
You can ask around, really hit them juugs for the fuckin' pound
Next time you see me, better not ask me for no money now
Never went to school, never thought about Clark or Morris Brown (woo)
'Til I took your bitch, drop her off right there by Morris Brown (skrrt)
Used to cook up bricks 'til I turned that shit to an extra now
I got the magic stick, feelin' like Criss Angel, bitch
I disappear bricks
First kicked the door when I was seventeen years old (seventeen, woo)
Seen my first fifty, ballin', eighteen years old (eighteen, fifty)
Let that pistol go when I was nineteen years old (nineteen, uh)
First time I turned twenty, I was cashin' out on gold (uh, gang)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, go, rich nigga, uh)
Rich nigga timeline, ye ain't live your life like mine (nah, no)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, uh, rich, go)
Rich nigga timeline, stay the fuck up out of mine (uh, stay out it, go)
Seventeen stackin' and countin' (seventeen)
Eighteen I ran from the bounty (eighteen)
You niggas is softer than Bounty (soft)
My nigga got fifteen, free Ronny (free Ronny)
Check out my bio, plenty felonies (bio)
Known for countin' up broccoli (broccoli)
Known for stackin' up celery (stacking)
You niggas ain't even a vet to me (pussy)
'Member the days? Run in your house like a raid (huh?)
Young nigga tryna get paid (paid)
Pistol to his face, give him a shave (baow, baow)
Never selfish, all the money I gave (here)
Never change, all the money I make (never)
One baby, all these bitches I laid (smash)
Three guns, nigga, never afraid (baow, baow)
Migos the army I'm never gon' trade (Migos)
Set-set hit a twenty band juug (huh?)
He helped the hood, everybody was good (helped the hood)
I'm white like a tiger and I got the wood (rawr)
My niggas on go, like Nike, they gon' do it (go)
These niggas wonderin', like how did we do it? (huh?)
Water diamonds on my neck look like fluid (drip)
I'm from the Zone 3 if you niggas ain't knew it (3)
I'm throwin' up the north 'cause that is my hood (North)
Locked up, mama couldn't get me out (huh?)
Called my nigga Bookie, he got me out (come on)
Kk got my back, ain't no doubt
Player made, free my bro, let him out (free)
This shit is crazy, shout out mama house (huh?)
Don't come to my trap and you unannounced (what?)
21 Challenger mounted up (woo)
Doin' phones, fucked your credit up (woo)
When you a boss they gon' cherish yah (boss)
Investigations, I didn't tell 'em nothin' (fuck 'em)
December 25th, on the run (damn)
I didn't know if I was comin' home (huh?)
Nineteen, I was on my own (nineteen)
My grandma died, cancer on her bones (fuck)
I ran in houses just to buy some Foams (give it up)
You can hear the pain in my voice on my songs (go, go)
First kicked the door when I was seventeen years old (seventeen, woo)
Seen my first fifty, ballin', eighteen years old (eighteen, fifty)
Let that pistol go when I was nineteen years old (nineteen, uh)
First time I turned twenty, I was cashin' out on gold (uh, gang)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, go, rich nigga, uh)
Rich nigga timeline, ye ain't live your life like mine (nah, no)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, uh, rich, go)
Rich nigga timeline, stay the fuck up out of mine (uh, stay out it, go)
fourteen, I got my first halftime (fourteen)
broke in the club for an Alpine (Alpine)
fifteen I got my first Glock 9 (fifteen)
It was rusty but it still'd bust a nigga (baow)
I was lil' nephew, they wasn't gon' touch a nigga ('phew)
If they did, my uncles'll bust a nigga (grrah)
Migos gang, they couldn't fuck with a nigga (Migos gang)
Started beefin' with some sucka niggas (sucka niggas)
Belushi's right there up on Club Drive
It's was y'all side versus Nawfside (Nawfside)
Knocked a couple niggas out a couple times (baow, baow)
Got in shootouts with niggas a hundred times (grrah)
Come to your party, we fuckin' it up (fuck it up)
Young niggas, we never gave a fuck (nah)
Young niggas, ten, twelve, thirteen, on go with a finger point
A lot of squads start poppin' up (huh?)
Screamin' shit that we ain't heard of (what?)
Migos pull up at your residence (Migos)
What's the issue, "It wasn't us, bruh"
We know you flexin', got the information
So you still gon' get hit with the uppercut (baow)
Beat a nigga to a puddle, nigga snitchin'
Now we runnin' from the task force (go)
Niggas was kickin' in doors, takin' flat screens and all the gold (takin' that)
Never got it and I sat on it, nigga, everything I got was sold
Apple Mac, juugin' laptops
Knock in your door, take your lil' brother's Xbox
Migo Jerz stand around the curb
Used to match up in the hotbox (hot)
Hit a juug for some True Religions
And some Robin Denims in a public community
My brother's keepers, Migos we got unity
'Bout to fire up at the park right on Harrington (gang)
To the bando, you see niggas gamblin'
Hit a kick door my niggas be ramblin' (boom)
I got a bag on my back like I'm Santa Claus (bag)
Finesse a nigga, Papa John's up in Panama (bitch)
First kicked the door when I was seventeen years old (seventeen, woo)
Seen my first fifty, ballin', eighteen years old (eighteen, fifty)
Let that pistol go when I was nineteen years old (nineteen, uh)
First time I turned twenty, I was cashin' out on gold (uh, gang)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, go, rich nigga, uh)
Rich nigga timeline, ye ain't live your life like mine (nah, no)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, uh, rich, go)
Rich nigga timeline, stay the fuck up out of mine (uh, stay out it, go)
Migos
First kicked the door when I was seventeen years old (seventeen, woo)
Seen my first fifty, ballin', eighteen years old (eighteen, fifty)
Let that pistol go when I was nineteen years old (nineteen, uh)
First time I turned twenty, I was cashin' out on gold (uh, gang)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, go, rich nigga, uh)
Rich nigga timeline, ye ain't live your life like mine (nah, no)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, uh, rich, go)
Rich nigga timeline, stay the fuck up out of mine (uh, stay out it, go)
Free my nigga Westside, locked up to this day (free)
R.I.P. my migo P, my nigga dead in the grave (P)
And I dare a fuck nigga come and try me today (bah-bah)
Abracadabra his face
Quavo the magician, the pack gone it's missin'
I got a ho and she got a hoe and now they both kissin'
Do you remember, the life I was livin'?
I'm callin' the plug, I'm juugin' up pounds, I'm breakin' down midget
I got the birds, pigeons (I got the pigeons)
They know who the fuck run the city (Nawfside)
I might pull up with that chopper and extensions (I got the 'xtensions)
I just let it off, I empty about fifty
Mama said, "Quavo don't spend all your Benjis" (momma)
Told mama, "I'm sorry, pockets on infinity"
You can ask around, really hit them juugs for the fuckin' pound
Next time you see me, better not ask me for no money now
Never went to school, never thought about Clark or Morris Brown (woo)
'Til I took your bitch, drop her off right there by Morris Brown (skrrt)
Used to cook up bricks 'til I turned that shit to an extra now
I got the magic stick, feelin' like Criss Angel, bitch
I disappear bricks
First kicked the door when I was seventeen years old (seventeen, woo)
Seen my first fifty, ballin', eighteen years old (eighteen, fifty)
Let that pistol go when I was nineteen years old (nineteen, uh)
First time I turned twenty, I was cashin' out on gold (uh, gang)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, go, rich nigga, uh)
Rich nigga timeline, ye ain't live your life like mine (nah, no)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, uh, rich, go)
Rich nigga timeline, stay the fuck up out of mine (uh, stay out it, go)
Seventeen stackin' and countin' (seventeen)
Eighteen I ran from the bounty (eighteen)
You niggas is softer than Bounty (soft)
My nigga got fifteen, free Ronny (free Ronny)
Check out my bio, plenty felonies (bio)
Known for countin' up broccoli (broccoli)
Known for stackin' up celery (stacking)
You niggas ain't even a vet to me (pussy)
'Member the days? Run in your house like a raid (huh?)
Young nigga tryna get paid (paid)
Pistol to his face, give him a shave (baow, baow)
Never selfish, all the money I gave (here)
Never change, all the money I make (never)
One baby, all these bitches I laid (smash)
Three guns, nigga, never afraid (baow, baow)
Migos the army I'm never gon' trade (Migos)
Set-set hit a twenty band juug (huh?)
He helped the hood, everybody was good (helped the hood)
I'm white like a tiger and I got the wood (rawr)
My niggas on go, like Nike, they gon' do it (go)
These niggas wonderin', like how did we do it? (huh?)
Water diamonds on my neck look like fluid (drip)
I'm from the Zone 3 if you niggas ain't knew it (3)
I'm throwin' up the north 'cause that is my hood (North)
Locked up, mama couldn't get me out (huh?)
Called my nigga Bookie, he got me out (come on)
Kk got my back, ain't no doubt
Player made, free my bro, let him out (free)
This shit is crazy, shout out mama house (huh?)
Don't come to my trap and you unannounced (what?)
21 Challenger mounted up (woo)
Doin' phones, fucked your credit up (woo)
When you a boss they gon' cherish yah (boss)
Investigations, I didn't tell 'em nothin' (fuck 'em)
December 25th, on the run (damn)
I didn't know if I was comin' home (huh?)
Nineteen, I was on my own (nineteen)
My grandma died, cancer on her bones (fuck)
I ran in houses just to buy some Foams (give it up)
You can hear the pain in my voice on my songs (go, go)
First kicked the door when I was seventeen years old (seventeen, woo)
Seen my first fifty, ballin', eighteen years old (eighteen, fifty)
Let that pistol go when I was nineteen years old (nineteen, uh)
First time I turned twenty, I was cashin' out on gold (uh, gang)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, go, rich nigga, uh)
Rich nigga timeline, ye ain't live your life like mine (nah, no)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, uh, rich, go)
Rich nigga timeline, stay the fuck up out of mine (uh, stay out it, go)
fourteen, I got my first halftime (fourteen)
broke in the club for an Alpine (Alpine)
fifteen I got my first Glock 9 (fifteen)
It was rusty but it still'd bust a nigga (baow)
I was lil' nephew, they wasn't gon' touch a nigga ('phew)
If they did, my uncles'll bust a nigga (grrah)
Migos gang, they couldn't fuck with a nigga (Migos gang)
Started beefin' with some sucka niggas (sucka niggas)
Belushi's right there up on Club Drive
It's was y'all side versus Nawfside (Nawfside)
Knocked a couple niggas out a couple times (baow, baow)
Got in shootouts with niggas a hundred times (grrah)
Come to your party, we fuckin' it up (fuck it up)
Young niggas, we never gave a fuck (nah)
Young niggas, ten, twelve, thirteen, on go with a finger point
A lot of squads start poppin' up (huh?)
Screamin' shit that we ain't heard of (what?)
Migos pull up at your residence (Migos)
What's the issue, "It wasn't us, bruh"
We know you flexin', got the information
So you still gon' get hit with the uppercut (baow)
Beat a nigga to a puddle, nigga snitchin'
Now we runnin' from the task force (go)
Niggas was kickin' in doors, takin' flat screens and all the gold (takin' that)
Never got it and I sat on it, nigga, everything I got was sold
Apple Mac, juugin' laptops
Knock in your door, take your lil' brother's Xbox
Migo Jerz stand around the curb
Used to match up in the hotbox (hot)
Hit a juug for some True Religions
And some Robin Denims in a public community
My brother's keepers, Migos we got unity
'Bout to fire up at the park right on Harrington (gang)
To the bando, you see niggas gamblin'
Hit a kick door my niggas be ramblin' (boom)
I got a bag on my back like I'm Santa Claus (bag)
Finesse a nigga, Papa John's up in Panama (bitch)
First kicked the door when I was seventeen years old (seventeen, woo)
Seen my first fifty, ballin', eighteen years old (eighteen, fifty)
Let that pistol go when I was nineteen years old (nineteen, uh)
First time I turned twenty, I was cashin' out on gold (uh, gang)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, go, rich nigga, uh)
Rich nigga timeline, ye ain't live your life like mine (nah, no)
Rich nigga timeline, rich nigga timeline (rich nigga, uh, rich, go)
Rich nigga timeline, stay the fuck up out of mine (uh, stay out it, go)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Rich Nigga Timeline Lyrics as written by Kirsnick Khari Ball Xavier Dotson
Lyrics © Ultra Tunes, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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