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Do What You Want

by Nyk Grey

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been thinking bout being like him been thinking bout being like them been thinking bout being like you but yall dont have a clue so id rather be myself forget trying to be you or anybody else do it for love and not the fucking wealth i mean what i say, so i say it with my chest :31 the truth is overly dramatic, dammit, i dont know if i can stand it, and it never is around when you looking for the sound that could possibly save the planet, can it? what you call the best, shit is average saying that you want a new classic [idolize those that are made outta plastic] only want the green like cabbage motherfucker raise your standards i aint even hating on the dances i'll watch you whip, watch you nae nae but bout these words, there aint no play play knock you out... smash bros melee not in real life, only in a game mane aint bout the violence, but if you try to silence i'll have to try shit stab you with a trident like i am from atlantis but im from atlanta kickin these rhymes, kung fu panda supply to your demand, i hope you understand, my voice dont need a camera all I need is one mic couple lines spat right shining like a flashlight but a nigga black as hell that boy burnt, what's that smell? if you do something, do it well If you try then you cannot fail 1:13 I'm something like a phenomenon Fuck that shit that y'all been on They say it's darkest before the dawn Is this what y'all been waiting on? A genius from Carolina Disguised as a dope rhymer no deal, no cosigner Bang it loud marijuana disturb the peace like shawnna Spitting hotter than a sauna best rapper, like a carter Atheist, corrupt your daughter Got the magic stick, Harry potter She'll jacket like a starter Flowing like some water On the web, Peter Parker 1:43 i turned loose leafs into loose lips Y'all boys soft like tulips Only real shit leave these two lips not that bullshit that you spit
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truth when I step in the booth, truth, truth, truth when i step in the booth, no lies nigga x4 truth when I step in the booth, no lies nigga tell the truth? been wanting this since 05 nigga Ain't rich, shit, I'm making five figures Good news, gotta worry bout no gold diggers Gotta worry bout these bills though Rappers flashing bill folds Got me thinking what do they live for? gotta be the dollar bill all they talk is keep it real but these motherfuckers is slaves to the record deal i dont care who you killed or who you fucked neither this is nick gray lyrical grim reaper dropped outta college trying to be a teacher being honest like future, this not what you use to shout to my youtubers going hard like medusa was getting hella views then that bitch stole my computer but fuck all the excuses i'll spit until im toothless 2016 o'shea, im cold and im ruthless truth like i swore on a bible dont believe in that, but what imma lie for? yeah the truth hurts like a fuckin 2 x 4 even dressed well, the bitch look like an eyesore i'm so anti fake shit that i had to make all your music do is... tell me that i aint shit grew up watching tigger in the basement back when rap and talent was adjacent now rap fans is complacent i dont even know no more Probably never go on tour gotta work a 9 to 5 struggling to stay alive here's a word from the wise when you looking up from the bottom...all you can do is rise this make you motherfuckers see clearly...lasik face it you hoes so basic i go...apeshit you rappers is ear canal rapists i aint gonna take this
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im an irrelevant reference to a reverent reverend been to places you never been and the a where i settled in elegant like the president riding in on an elephant i been on 11 ever since i battled that lesbian bitch im dark like anakin feeling like the man again you rappers is models, you should try out to be mannequins your girl said me gusta, so i said tambien put her to sleep, you can call my dick ambien punchline champion bar barbarian your favorite rapper, send me em i bet you i'll bury em you gon need a wheelbarrow just to carry em beat the beat bloody til it look like carrie nem rap cannibal and you sound vegetarian you being competition? lol hilarious top rhymer vs top ramen this is my promise mutilate the beat whether or not ya boy got commas fly like you from tatooine no money for your gasoline Shit is asaneen, asanine Only fuck if her ass a nine told the beat that ass was mine just had to blaze it one more time lace it with some brand new rhymes Nas told me the world was mine so i took it, i got em lookin ya mobb deep, but i got em shook and got more bars than central booking lines so hot, i think i smell the beat cookin ghost dog in the slaughterhouse like my i was crooked aint gotta sag, show my ass on these tracks coming straight to ya from the bottom of the map all you talk about is how you in the trap aint gotta look far to find where im at 404, 770 atl ho raped rap like you put quaaludes in some jello showered her golden yellow fuck around get ludacris to hit you with an elbow touch the mic? hell no fuck around get a grammy exes can't stand me voice moists panties since im beating down the block like vigilantes
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0:06 hook riding through the a and you know im riding solo you can ride along but dont touch my radio just burning gas, don't ask where we bout to go whats the destination, i dont even know :30 verse gotta get up off this couch gotta get up out this house grab my phone, grab my wallet grab my keys im riding out cant get out the driveway until a favorite song play im thinking black milk, maybe some torae car get moving my exhaust start fuming whip a honda like a buick swangin like im from houston pull next to a cop cruiser cooler than a hockey puck windows down, music up ask me if i give a fuck bass start quaking and his car get to shakin next right turn, im takin probably got his head aching turn down this road, or turn down what im playin ain't no questioning the decision that im makin i dont feel nothing but these good vibrations most passengers don't like the sensation so i like to ride alone don't try to hit my phone cuz im 1:16 hook 1:40 verse when i say im burning gas, i dont mean im rolling up if this that chill shit you vibe to, go and grab a blunt why you think i name this shit do what you want? you damned if you do, and you damned if you dont so fuck it, hop in the bucket and haul ass on the road, can't worry about snakes in tall grass so picture me rollin when its all eyez on me all by my lonely, dont need no homies might hit lenox or perimeter maybe hit 85 and push it to the limit bruh my whip got my back like my decendants, bruh why you think im in it for? no car note on an old ass civic bruh Crank it to the max, Fuck being timid bruh push this shit like i got 16 cylinders hop in, if you talkin in you'll be walken like christopher im feeling kinda like what the game's been missing bruh
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:15 hook 2x Everytime i walk up in the club all the bitches wanna show me love black, white, asian i say all of the above :30 verse can't forget the latina that look like selena everytime i see her, i say rip bruh cause she be killin them suicide like will n them yo ho is dirty water from michigan everytime im up in the club all these hoes wanna give me hugs everytime im up in the street all these fuck niggas want beef maybe cuz im best rapper dont give a fuck who the best scrapper nigga i am the best shooter nigga i play call of duty 1:01 hook 2x 1:16 go ahead, dont be shy girl you a resident in my world keep doing what you doin, get a necklace with pearls every kiss begins with kay you job begins with blow if your name was lois lane i'm the flyest dude you know tell me what you think about that time to rap about racks how you aint on that bullshit but i treat it like fact got things that you lack can't sit where i sat cant spit how i spat dont wanna hear rap so i gotta pull back like old glue on a new track or a dirty scalp on a new hat gotta entertain these new blacks so i gotta relax was clean now i relapse keep my music shallow dont wanna hear no deep tracks just wanna feel the deep bass get a woman with a three face and a 7 body just dont tell nobody
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:12 verse best rapper ever, speak now or hold your peace I'm where down is A and up is the peace niggas think they tough, this how they hold their piece you fuckboys couldn't outrap my fucking neice Too clean, you can get cut on my crease Got a beating system like the fucking police dont wanna kill yall, i try to keep the peace but who am i to deny the nature of a beast? Nyk Grey, rookie, but i move like a veteran can't nobody tell me who i cant be better than cant rock with me, then better check your sediment coolest kid around that never had a letterman all i do is build like a fallout 4 settlement never make it rain, what you need with a weatherman kingstree, south kak what you know about that catch me rolling through your hood with the fucking top back :58 hook x2 what's that? now they wanna hear a country nigga rap? whiplash bang ya head till ya fuckin neck snap 1:09 verse n-y-k g-r-e-y fuck with me, a must you die no compare, there aint no tie behind me is where my victims lie on some rigamortus shit kill em like kevorkian spit hot flames like your boy name was scorpion used to call me dorkiest now i smash her and her friend All cuz my trunk was banging like a fucking simeon everytime i go in, i show out call you fireman, when you go in them hoes out yo girl said she love bammas, i told her to go south had to block her like a spammer i thought she stole trout (UGHHH) 1:43 hook x2 1:54 verse got double u's like an ugly umbrella hate lemonade like I made rocafella want me to stop, i dont know what to tell ya let the beat switch, used to rock it acapella 2:17 outro verse Every time I hop on the record, I wreck it wanna be considered a legend, I reckon Take a minute off, I'll fall back into second Birdman voice crack, you better respek it I'm chosen, you frozen I'm lava on you hoes and Wearing a pair size 10s You can't fit your toes in 10.5 to be exact I'm bodying this track and I'm In love with the fact My words go all across the map That boy Nyk is a savage you know i just gotta have it yall jon snow, and I'm killing all you bastards niggas is timmy turner with the burner magic with the ratchet dont need them to make you whack rappers vanish throw a beat at me, and i promise i'll catch it newest in the game mane, i call that an advantage can't get worse than these very first verses each and every bar, i get closer to perfect
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:18 verse Floating down buford highway in my civic ho Shit from nine seven, but i whip it like a rental tho middle of the a, but it look like little mexico donald trump bitch ass wanna send them somewhere else to go they aint having that, suck up on my testicle push up on my homies and get fried like a vegetable you 1 percent corporate suits gassed like a texaco then got the nerve to wonder why we actin reckless fo think you a visionary, more like a spectacle your politics ancient shit, this nigga is cicero that's why his damn toupee looking like a dinner roll what you think we in it for? just to get up out it? we gon fight for our country, we gon shout the loudest fuck what you say about it, come on man this was founded on pursuit of happiness, liberty and life so tell me what's up with all this misery and strife? 1:12 hook 4x Make America great again! Make America great again! America was great when? America was great when? 1:40 verse was it great when women couldn't vote? was it great when blacks were hanging from a rope? was it great when you stole native land? was it great when y'all murdered Sandra bland? hell nah imma let you know ain't shit here was better before better go back to your reality show dont go near that white house door told you one time, i'll tell you some more we done sleeping on that glass floor rich get richer and the poor get more either I get mine or you get your assbeat, might get your assbeat beat yo ass up and down wallstreet aint a threat, just an observation connect the dots...constellation stay away just like them stars we don't care wh-who you are media put you on the front page you aint gonna win anyway they just using you for the views get syndication on the news and your ugly ass still gonna lose at least you still better than ted cruz 2:32 hook
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:14 verse wanna be alone, but i still feel lonely its like the feeling might be mutual, like nobody want me and i know it aint true, still got my day 1 homies but if i fall, they got me, or they gon flake like tony? man i guess we'll never know if i fall, i'll never show put up walls like mexico cold shoulder, eskimo solitary confined to my mind sometimes man i wish that we could just rewind back to the time when i could trust my bloodline if they ain't stealing my identity, they telling lies they say blood is thicker than water but think about what's really harder to swallow that's why i never really was one to follow if you tried to me leave breadcrumbs, I'll still just wander and i aint mad at ya, im just protecting myself and its cool if im understood by nobody else 1:03 hook even when its crowded i still feel all alone so many thoughts that be racing in my dome aint being rude when i dont pick up my phone just try to understand that i prefer it on my own i guess im introverted its about time you learned it i guess im introverted in case you never heard it i guess im introverted in case you felt deserted i guess im introverted i guess im introverted 1:27 verse Even when I sit down, I feel like I stand out was like that as a boy, same even as a man now wanna get to know you, but i might have a breakdown considered going homeless before i took a handout fuck small talk, while yall talk, im writing raps on my phone just rather not talk if i dont know em imagine if they never let kanye into his zone so give me some room kinda like a traffic cone not that i hate people, dont know what to do with em i know we both one in the same- we both human a pointless conversation is not what im pursuing you be like hi, my name's clint, how you doin? i dont care. i dont mean no harm might think im the worst guy like gambino song the fact of the matter is you couldn't be more wrong so instead of bothering you, i had to write this song
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:12 verse at a house party on some kid n play shit saw this fly honey that was far from basic its like nobody in the room even had faces i just know we gotta unify like the races she had natural hair and a beautiful stare i mean, shorty was fine nobody compared plus she was all by herself like solitaire i gotta make a move now, i aint trying to share skin peanut butter with the almond eyes gotta get to know her fore these other guys bout to pull up on her like a exercise little more than thirsty, call it baptized damn i think she saw me seeing her know what that means, time to get to work first, i checked my breath for some odor then my nigga, this is what i told her: :58 hook saw you from across the room wanna get to know you here's my number maybe we'll talk soon i can go on and on like badu we can be a pair like some shoes if you knew how i do you'll be coming soon like the preview 1:33 verse friends call me nyk, you can do the same damn how rude of me, i didnt catch your name girl nobody touchin you with an oven mitt and your shit sound just like my government you know what they say about great minds, i guess you can say we got some great moms aint got no game, just say how i feel these other dudes'll lie to you and try to say that they keep it real but enough about me girl, tell me bout you the things you like to watch, the things you like to do oh you up on walking dead? man I like that shit too and you watch anime? man i think that shit cool let me take you out to dinner, maybe shoot pool i just want you on my arm like a wolf tattoo can't give you the world, but i can give you some smiles and i'll do everything i can to make this last a while
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:10 verse Super Nintendo, Sega genesis When I was growing up man, all I did was this back when thick thighed chun li was the baddest bitch always hold it down like a spinning bird kick yup yup in my dojo get beat up like abobo beat you into last week like my man crono king of fighters if you dont know mortal kombat i was so so but in killer instinct, you can't touch my jago wanna play? sure you can hit you with a shoryuken blow you up like bomberman just to show that im the man nah you dont stand a chance cuz im ballin vectorman yeah boy you know i got you x'd like mega man im an altered beast, i guess to say the least you gon need more than flynn to try to keep the peace i turn battletoads into rashes in the road you couldn't beat me with 3 konami codes :53 hook 1:15 verse Nyk got jams like boomshakalaka He's on fire, name another rapper hotter touch your girl once, clothes fall off like arthur just want my voice to ecco like the dolphin im the shit, sewer surfin boss like bowser, super burning rainbow road, super swerving can't fall off, watch me turning streets of rage was super urban ninja gaiden had me cursing super black like zack nigga power ranger mighty morphin yall suck like kirby you guys is unworthy mask on like shinobi starman yall cant hurt me yall save hoes like cody while we still do our thing only cuz nyk is fly like an arwing up in the club and you pulled a dime piece psyche, thats the wrong number, final fantasy strength knowledge love is the pieces of my triforce If you don't hand me the crown I'll take it by force 1:58 hook
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:16 verse hailing from the k town, where them boys dont play round look close see em pitching crack by the playground love kingstree, but i couldn't stay round listen as I speak on my life on this great sound youngest son of david and jane i was born to be a prodigy, simple and plain went to the schools, gettin nothing but As forced to go to church, give nothing but praise in hope for eternal life, stared down a pistol twice if i stayed there, then my future wasnt bright ya boy had to leave to search for the light im outta here, hopping on this greyhound, headed from the k all the way to the a town :50 beat break :59 verse hopped off the bus, I'm in the ATL Bamma in the city bout to give em hell small fish, big pond started working papa johns somebody please tell me what the hell is goin on? uncle jr let me know atlanta wasnt just the videos big rims, big booty hoes black land of opportunity im rapping like its you and me appreciate me presently, not during my eulogy but back to my biography i trusted uncle jr, man that was lunacy son i can't believe he was fooling me this nigga had no class like truancy every first of the month, he was robbing me trying to steal from me like a fucking usurper had to change his world like a fucking heart murmur got my own spot, but we still coworkers became manager to tell him scrub that surface 1:52 verse left that bullshit behind i could better spend my time making videos or perfecting my rhymes everything i saw was mine no longer had to worry about a knife in the spine funds in my pocket so now I can travel started fixing macs, and went to the big apple in Miami looking fly like Henry Cavill my woofers was banging just like the judge gavel went from cruising in the honda to cruising in bahamas i had to tell my mama my account had a comma was the bomb like osama ain't worried about the drama get the picture? panorama try and cancel me, come back futurama Keep looking, might find what I'm searching for demand respect like a lion roar I aint the best, what you lying for? them other dudes aiight, but i inspire more 2:34 outro
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:14 verse i dont believe in god i just believe in me you listen and you nod but thinking blasphemy i think its kinda odd its all geography you pick it for yourself or they decide what you believe? :25 now im warmed up, bring the heat in was raised christian now the nigga is a heathen didn't have a choice was told to believe in a dude who drowned the whole world to stop it from breathin you see man? that's genocide, you criticize what if you had been alive? had to hold you kids hands while they motherfuckin died with a god like that, who needs satan? 20 years I stayed quiet, now I gotta weigh in if children are our future, then stop the indoctrinatin can't move forward with improper education you idolize the preachers with nothing but ajulation but the catholic church is where the predators are praying(preying) 1:02 hook 2x your purpose, be worthless be filled of guilt and let me get your ten percent 1:13 verse apologize and repent get on your knees you can suck on this, and take two of these you think your money really be going to building fees? even good intentions could lead to tragedy if its blasphemy, im sad to see brainwashing my family heathen, but i had visit heaven just to grab this beat hear them horns son? feel them trumpets playing? dont really care, just hear what im sayin i'm super, need more teachers, less recruiters feeding they agendas and robbing us like some looters we all got computers, but yall call em phones you can learn anything a human's ever known safari, firefox, opera, edge, or chrome dont need a leader, you can learn it on your own do some research, process it in your dome if it dont make sense, you can cut it like michonne (dont take my word for it) 2:01 hook 4x
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:27 verse Skyzoo, Phonte, Oddisee Logic, killer Mike, saint bre no matter what you said that i can't be they helped me kill everybody who aint me the world comes to a stop when i arrange these stanzas my words are dope beat dancers knew there was power in my blood when my dad beat cancer so fuck your mainstream hip hop propaganda you played yourself, i made myself like no one else, you know what else? they feel me more with every breath they learning how to love theyself figured if I couldn't beat em, i'd join em and beat em on the beat they couldn't walk with my sole now they smelling defeat so fuck the dj, we dont care what he play on the internet, got the real shit on replay declare your independence with each and every sentence when you got control you can never be the victim :1:16 hook Know you spent your days being nonchalant Wanna be the best, Gotta do what they won't Damned if you do, Damned if you don't Time is running out, Better do what you want

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As fans of entertainment, we often want to emulate our idols. This was my way of expressing myself in hip hop. I've been told that I'm a "regular black guy with a regular life" and I should leave this rap thing to the professionals. If we all had this attitude would our idols be our idols? I say nay. I did it because I can. I did it because I'm damn good at it. This is how I Do What I Want.

Do What You Want is a mixtape that is called a mixtape only because the instrumentals used were created by legendary producers. Featuring sounds, from 9th Wonder, Jahlil Beats, Metro Boomin, Just Blaze and more.

The excellent beats do not overshadow the great lyrical dexterity on display on this project. Double entendres, melodies, and storytelling are featured in these 13 tracks.

Intense, political, funny, and cool, Do What You Want makes sure that what established hip hop as a respected art form are front and center: beats, flows, and rhymes.

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released June 6, 2016

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Nyk Grey Atlanta, Georgia

Nyk Grey is a Kingstree, South Carolina native who currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Nyk decided to pick up the microphone because he knew he had something to say and a cool way to say it.

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