Royce da 5'9"

Released: May 4, 2018

Songwriter: Uncle EJ dEnAun Royce da 5'9"

Producer: dEnAun

[Intro]
Anything or everything
Anything, everything
White people decide between anything and everything
My people divide between anything and everything
(Dang, dang)

[Verse 1]
Grew up in the hood between anything and everything
White people enslaved us, made us just do everything
Now they just encage us, divide us up and everything
We snitchin' on each other tellin' everything
Buy from other colors, sellin' everything
That vodka was my crush but now I'm just on everything
The landlord just kicked my mother out and everything
But why the fuck my people always rentin' everything? (Tell me why)

[Chorus]
'Cause we don't own anything
We don't stand for anything
And so we fall for anything
We wasn't born with anything
We don't control anything
And we don't own anything
And we don't learn anything
So we don't earn anything
We sell our soul for anything
We sell our soul for everything

[Verse 2]
Mom and papa used to fall out over everything
I'm at the mall, I'm spendin' all I got on everything
Money and the power, bitches over everything
It don't make sense if I ain't livin' for everything

[Chorus]
'Cept we don't live for anything
Niggas kill for anything
We dyin' over everything
We killin' over anything
Killin' over anything

[Outro]
"America will always side with those whom she can direct
Give orders to, and have those orders obeyed." - Minister Louis Farrakhan
"There is no police brutality." - Sheriff David A. Clark
"God bless America." - Don King, nigga
(Paper tears)

Royce da 5'9", real name Ryan Daniel Montgomery, is undoubtedly one of the underground rap kings of Detroit. The Michigan MC is a long-time collaborator of Eminem’s, meeting him in December 1997, and is noted as one of the greatest lyricists in hip-hop’s history (in 2012, The Source ranked him as the 48th greatest lyricist of all time in their top 50, this questionable ranking unsurprisingly being scrutinized by many as a gross misjudgment).

Although critics have previously cast shade on his ability to create a well-rounded body of work, many, critics included, considered his sophomore effort, Death is Certain (2004), to be a strong album. To learn more in-depth about his solo discography, read this page (the page listed is old, so it is not updated).

Royce is the Bad half of Bad Meets Evil (with Eminem), ¼ of Slaughterhouse (alongside Crooked I KXNG CROOKED, Joe Budden and Joell Ortiz), and ½ of PRhyme (with DJ Premier). Royce currently operates a independent record label, Bad Half Entertainment.

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