‘What U Gonna Do’

* DISCLAIMER* This album was produced prior to me dedicating my music, talents, and life fully to The Lord. Please understand that my values are no longer in line with the content on this album (or anything dated pre-2017) and that I no longer make worldly secular music. Thank you for your understanding and continued support. – Rip

Artist: Rip
Featuring: $INcere
Song Title: What U Gonna Do
Album: Sellout (Re-Release – 2013)

Yeah, sometimes your very own worst enemy… is yourself. Yeah

[Chorus]

All you got is just one shot to get to the top spot,
So don’t stop, working hard is what you gotta do.
All you got is just one chance to get up and command, one glace
wake ’em up is what you gotta do.
I’m talking 24/7,
You gotta keep pressin’ the lesson,
Never give up what you’re gonna do.
In the corner just fight back with your back to the wall,
or when you fall, you fight back,
What you gonna do?

[Verse 1]
He was a no one, nobody paid him attention.
Now he got droves of supporters who pay to give him attention.
His life was testin,
A kid fighting oppression,
Then he broke all the molds and started leaving impressions.
Far from a blessing,
or cookie cut with a stencil,
This kid was ’bout to go mental,
Til he found a utensil,
And started telling a story with a pad and a pencil.
But nobody will fully understand what he been through.
He got a lot on his chest to get off like a rep you,
Push up at the gym, when they constantly test you.
Tell you over and over that you’ll never be nothing,
When deep in your heart, you know you’re destined for something.
Told his teachers his dreams and she told him to get real,
Like he he couldn’t bend steel, full of shit like ate 10 meals
Ain’t no such thing as luck, only cause and effect.
He put this clause in effect and dug his claws in the deck.

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
Never one for defeat, got on his feet,
Because a dream is for the people who sleep,
They counting sheep.
You never sow you never reap
he got eat, haters in heat,
Like they don’t have the same 24 hours as he.
And he failed 100 times for every time he succeeded,
Like getting cut from the team,
The music shit what he’s bleeding
It’s the air that he’s breathing,
Everything that he’s seeking,
100 reasons for leaving, but they nothing but demons.
And even if he gotta drive the same car for a decade,
Sacrifice and give his all, every chip and card played.
Through pitfalls and the bull, uh… wonderwall.
Pitbull with some balls, ha… underdog.
With the eye of the tiger, now he’s fit for survival,
And worked hard like a psycho and turned his idols to rivals.
Never claimed it was easy to be in it whole hearted,
When you feel like giving up, man, remember why you started.

[Chorus]

There will come a time in life when you won’t know,
Should you keep pushing on or just let go?

you gotta believe, but
You gotta believe,
In yourself is what you gotta believe.
You gotta believe, but
You gotta believe,
In yourself is what you gotta believe.

Even when I’m bleeding, gonna keep on proceeding,
You know I’ll never stop achieving til the day I stop breathing.
I said, even when I’m bleeding, gonna keep on proceeding,
You know I’ll never stop achieving til the day I stop breathing.

[Chorus]

Oooh oohh what you gonna do?
Oooh oohh what you gonna do?
Oooh oohh what you gonna do?
Oooh oohh what you gonna do?