"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.
Man, my story is, so glorious
You know, I started off so notorious
I will die a legend like Notorious
My story is, so glorious
Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, shine!
My story is, so glorious
Fat fly boy, young Notorious
Notorious, for move makin'
I got a pistol for a pig, cook bacon
I'm a young G i'm a EV, educated villain
Who fuckin' with me? I'm a book reader
I'm a gang leader
Triple bang and salute when the gang see him
I'm in position that these other rappers envy
They major, broke, and I get rich indie
Yeah, I said I Get-Rich-IN-D
Trill definition of that GRIND
God looked out, because my life changed
It weren't for rap
I'd have a job of sell cocaine
They say I celebrate the pusher
That's profane i say to feed my babies
Y'all I'll do anything
I'll sell H, I'll sell C
Because Malik, Aniyah, Pony
Mike have gotta eat and I refuse
Cause I promised I would not lose
Until I'm gone
I'mma give these sucka' niggas blues
Here come the blues, nigga!
Young Muddy Waters in the club sweating hot
With your Slutty daughters
Young 8Ball, on my way to legendary
Even Pun will have to point and say
"That nigga's very heavy!"
To son me, you gon' have to get a Bun B
Because the Pimp C in me
Won't let you pump me
Aye watch your mouth nigga
I'm from the South nigga
And you might smell my cologne
At your house nigga money, money, money
Seems that's all that I'm about, nigga
I got a bad queen she want a lot of things
And she gon' have it all tear down the mall
Good riddance to my ex-bitches, I holla y'all
I see you and your new nigga at my show
He love Pledge 2, he love song 4
I love the West side, I love Zone 4
Dixie Hills
Simpson Road that's what I do it for
Martin Luther King, Bankhead and Ashby
But now it's Lowery that's where the loud be
And everywhere I be that's where the crowd be
But I'm a street nigga
Partner don't crowd me
And don't push me, and don't shush me
Cause I'm the opposite of whatever is pussy
Ass nigga, you ain't talking cash nigga
Then it's lost in translation
Get up out my face and
Go to the room where the sucka' niggas sit
Sit around and talk some of
That sucka nigga shit
The way y'all cackling is like
Y'all sucking nigga's dick no homo promo
But y'all suckas acting like a bitch
I fell off and came up again, I am 50 Cent
I know you don't love me
I'm black and I'm ugly
But I got money, so these fly bitches fuck me
And I got hit's now
So you haters can't duck me
My life has turned to magic
This is David Copperfield
The pretty women hug me and beg
For me to cop a feel
Them crackas call a nigga they want
Me to cop a deal but I don't talk 360 unless
We talking 'bout a mil
If they talking major money
We can talk and that's what up
If they ain't talking 'bout that then
I remain indie as fuck
They say I'm underrated and they
Sorry for my loss
And I reply I'm sorry that y'all
Broke and got a boss
On Pledge 1 I told the world
What I'm about to do
The blind couldn't see it so
I showed 'em Pledge 2
God In the Building had to
Help 'em gain focus
Pledge 3 is here, I give you the magnum opus
You know, I started off so notorious
I will die a legend like Notorious
My story is, so glorious
Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, shine!
My story is, so glorious
Fat fly boy, young Notorious
Notorious, for move makin'
I got a pistol for a pig, cook bacon
I'm a young G i'm a EV, educated villain
Who fuckin' with me? I'm a book reader
I'm a gang leader
Triple bang and salute when the gang see him
I'm in position that these other rappers envy
They major, broke, and I get rich indie
Yeah, I said I Get-Rich-IN-D
Trill definition of that GRIND
God looked out, because my life changed
It weren't for rap
I'd have a job of sell cocaine
They say I celebrate the pusher
That's profane i say to feed my babies
Y'all I'll do anything
I'll sell H, I'll sell C
Because Malik, Aniyah, Pony
Mike have gotta eat and I refuse
Cause I promised I would not lose
Until I'm gone
I'mma give these sucka' niggas blues
Here come the blues, nigga!
Young Muddy Waters in the club sweating hot
With your Slutty daughters
Young 8Ball, on my way to legendary
Even Pun will have to point and say
"That nigga's very heavy!"
To son me, you gon' have to get a Bun B
Because the Pimp C in me
Won't let you pump me
Aye watch your mouth nigga
I'm from the South nigga
And you might smell my cologne
At your house nigga money, money, money
Seems that's all that I'm about, nigga
I got a bad queen she want a lot of things
And she gon' have it all tear down the mall
Good riddance to my ex-bitches, I holla y'all
I see you and your new nigga at my show
He love Pledge 2, he love song 4
I love the West side, I love Zone 4
Dixie Hills
Simpson Road that's what I do it for
Martin Luther King, Bankhead and Ashby
But now it's Lowery that's where the loud be
And everywhere I be that's where the crowd be
But I'm a street nigga
Partner don't crowd me
And don't push me, and don't shush me
Cause I'm the opposite of whatever is pussy
Ass nigga, you ain't talking cash nigga
Then it's lost in translation
Get up out my face and
Go to the room where the sucka' niggas sit
Sit around and talk some of
That sucka nigga shit
The way y'all cackling is like
Y'all sucking nigga's dick no homo promo
But y'all suckas acting like a bitch
I fell off and came up again, I am 50 Cent
I know you don't love me
I'm black and I'm ugly
But I got money, so these fly bitches fuck me
And I got hit's now
So you haters can't duck me
My life has turned to magic
This is David Copperfield
The pretty women hug me and beg
For me to cop a feel
Them crackas call a nigga they want
Me to cop a deal but I don't talk 360 unless
We talking 'bout a mil
If they talking major money
We can talk and that's what up
If they ain't talking 'bout that then
I remain indie as fuck
They say I'm underrated and they
Sorry for my loss
And I reply I'm sorry that y'all
Broke and got a boss
On Pledge 1 I told the world
What I'm about to do
The blind couldn't see it so
I showed 'em Pledge 2
God In the Building had to
Help 'em gain focus
Pledge 3 is here, I give you the magnum opus
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
So Glorious Lyrics as written by Michael Render
Lyrics © Royalty Network, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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