A$AP Ferg

Released: April 22, 2016

Songwriter: Daniel Seeff Bēkon Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman A$AP Ferg The Stepkids DJ Khalil Sam Barsh Clams Casino

Producer: DJ Khalil Clams Casino

[Intro]
If I die before I wake
At least I lived life my way
Hope that you remember me
Came up fast, bittersweet
Please prepare me mentally
‘Fore you take my soul and empty me

[Interlude]
Now that you’re no longer a lord that’s trapped
You have graduated to the Hood Pope
You have made it to represent your people
Show them another way
Be the voice of the people who couldn’t make it out the hood

[Verse 1]
Make sure my family good, my ma still in the hood
I ain’t rich like they think cause I copped me one mink
They think I got me a house with a big couch and a gold sink
With a model bitch with a gold ring, big ass fish in a fish tank
Haha, you laughing, just put me in my casket
I ain’t even into nagging, it's what it is, I’m passing

[Interlude]
And though times is hard now, your success awaits them
I’m no different, we all the same
Ferg made it out? Well, I can play that game
You’re not exempt from the growing chain
Niggas forget who’s afraid to change
Yet a trapped lord, I will remain

[Verse 2]
Hood Pope, I’ma teach these confused folks how to maneuver
Through folks and attention, get you choked, you know
Slim model girls sniffing the coke
Fiend on the block sniffin’ the dope
I wanna help, I don’t know, tell me the, antidote
How you hood and a pope
Conscious thinking, ghetto though
I’ll teach you how to build a grow tree
Life like a bike and pedal slow

[Interlude]
Now you’re the voice of the guys on the corners
And the kids who have no direction, guide them
Through the trials and the tribulations
Teach them the world can be accumulated with patience

[Outro]
If I die before I wake
At least I lived life my way
Hope that you remember me
Came up fast, bittersweet
Please prepare me mentally
‘Fore you take my soul and empty me

Darold D. Brown Ferguson, Jr. (born October 20, 1988), better known by his stage name A$AP Ferg, is an American rapper from New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. Aside from his solo career, he is a member of the hip hop collective A$AP Mob.

Born as Darold Ferguson Jr., named after his father the late Darold Ferguson Sr, Ferg was raised in a northern neighborhood located in Harlem, New York known as Hamilton Heights or The Hungry Ham. See Ferg talk about it more on Complex’s “The Neighborhood”:

Darold pursued fashion at first. Starting a clothing line known as Devoni Clothing he designed and distributed high-end belts worn by Chris Brown, Swizz Beatz, and Diggy Simmons. According to Frank151 he told fellow A$AP Mob member and childhood friend A$AP

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