(Intro – Lupe Fiasco)
Ni**as wanna win
These ni**as wanna win
These ni**as wanna win
Everybody wanna be a mothaf**king winner
That ain’t how it work though, yeah
(Verse 1 – Lupe Fiasco & Ty Dolla $ign)
Ayy, ayy, disproportionate convictions
Especially when it come to our case, our case
You seen the movie, they killed the ni**a
Why you still wanna be like Scarface?
That’s why ni**as gon lose, yeah, ohh yeah
I said it, ni**as gon lose, yeah, ohhh
And you can have a friend and you can have a Benz
One’s sitting down, the other’s trafficking
If you get the car then your friend dies
Having one keeps the other one from happening
I hope a ni**a don’t lose, ohhh
F**k that car, ni**a, ni**as gon lose, uh-huh, yea, yeah
(Verse 2 – Lupe Fiasco & Ty Dolla $ign)
And she want love, you only want sex
You got yours, she didn’t get hers
She got no respect, y’all had a son
She like, f**k you, she only want a check
That lil ni**a gon lose, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mothaf**ka, ni**as gon lose, ohhh
Yeah and these rap ni**as talk about the hood
Like we all lames and they seen it
It’s entertaining, it’s cool as hell
That beat dope, that don’t mean s**t
That’s why ni**as gon lose, whoa
F*** you talking? Ni**as gon lose, yeah
If they legalize that whole thing
They doin weed, next cocaine
Ni**as ain’t gon have no jobs
And Wall Street gon run the dope game
What a ni**a gon do? Huh? oh yeah!
You ni**as gon lose, whoa
(Verse 3 – Lupe Fiasco & Ty Dolla $ign)
And when you see me you don’t see yourself
That’s why I got no problem shooting me
Willie Lynch set the sh*t up beautifully
One of the reasons ni**as ain’t got unity
That’s why ni**as gon lose, you ni**as gon lose, oh yeah
Ayy f**k that s**t, ayy, ni**as gon lose, yeah
And most hood ni**as is good ni**as
In a heartbeat, I’ll shed blood for him
But he too stupid, he won’t sit down
That ni**a too hot, I got love for him
That ni**a gon lose aw yeah
On my mama, that ni**a gon lose, yeah, aww
And you did it cause your daddy did it
But he locked up in there and ain’t happy with it
Do the same thing, get the same results
If your brain work then what’s the matter with it?
You knew you was gon lose, aw yeah
They told you, ni**a, you was gon lose, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Verse 4 – Lupe Fiasco & Ty Dolla $ign)
I never met a saint, from no color
From nowhere, from no other
From no castle, from no gutter
It ain’t nobody that don’t suffer
Some ni**as gon lose, ooohhh
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Some ni**as gon lose
Promised land, I don’t believe that
Had a dream and I don’t need that
Please God, send us some jobs
Cause my ni**as really really need that
Or ni**as gon lose
That’s right, ni**as gon lose, yeah, ohhh
And we sell dope then we turn around
Give the white people all our profits
Take a percentage of that, set it to the side
And send these lil ni**as off to college
So ni**as don’t lose, yeah
Yeah, ni**as don’t lose, uhh, yeah, ohh
And if they offer something, just take it
Then work hard, don’t waste it
Every castle started at the basement
Yeah your manager a racist
But you’re the one that’s gon lose, lose
That’s right, ni**as gon lose
(Outro – Ty Dolla $ign & Lupe Fiasco)
And these ni**as gon lose, ohhh
I said, I said everybody wanna be a winner
Everybody wanna be a winner
Be a mothaf**king winner
Never gotta worry bout nothing
But some ni**as gon lose
Yeah so ni**as don’t lose
And it’s f**ked up, some ni**as gon’ lose
Ayy, you wake up and you hear shots
Mean another ni**a got his tear drops
And you call his phone and ain’t picking up
And your stomach hurting, that fear drops
I hope a ni**a ain’t lose
