Hold You Down Lyrics - Childish Gambino

1 [Chorus]

2 Ooh, I want it, yeah

3 Whenever you need my help

4 I'll hold you down, oh

5 Ooh, you want it, yeah

6 When the fuck these niggas

7 Tryin' to hold me down

8 You such a fuckin' lame

9 That's what they used to yell back in 7th grade

10 My mama said she'd get me that new jacket when the cost go down

11 Hit the office stole some Tommy Hill from lost and found

12 Not bad for a family of foster child

13 Lookin' fly, man I'm flossin' now.

14 But them niggas saw through me

15 Are you serious? What is this?

16 Took the jacket off third period

17 Ellipses

18 Listening to "Sky is the Limit" on my Walkman

19 Thinking if Biggie can make it through it

20 Man, than I can

21 Dope boy swag, I always wanted that

22 But my persona was always more of that Arthur Ashe

23 But no love for the son of a commuter

24 Who was a radiohead

25 And okay at the computers at the post office

26 It's funny how you smoke niggas

27 Then you start coffins

28 All my people need throat lozenge

29 My fear is dead

30 Ambition drove the hearse

31 When niggas get to feeling I ain't black enough to go to church

32 Culture shock in barber shops 'cause I ain't hood enough

33 We all look the same to the cops

34 Ain't that good enough?

35 The black experience is black and serious

36 'Cause being black my experience is no one hearing us

37 White kids get to wear whatever hat they want

38 When it comes to black kids one size fits all

39 [Chorus]

40 We the baddest nigga

41 We the baddest nigga

42 Yeah, we the baddest nigga

43 We the baddest nigga, come on

44 (x 2)

45 The reason that they say I'm nothing

46 But they seen it hurts

47 The same reason Will Smith always opposite Latino girls

48 They only see you how they wanna see you

49 'Til you make 'em see you in some other way

50 I'm trippin' off the other day

51 'Cause God knows what these white kids say and do

52 You're not NOT racist 'cause The Wire's in your Netflix queue

53 Subtle racism, it's hard to pin it

54 'Cause you'd only understand if you were me for just a minute

55 This one kid said something that was really bad

56 He said I wasn't really black because I had a dad

57 I think that's kinda sad

58 Mostly 'cause a lot of black kids think they should agree with that

59 If you're a father you should stick around if you could

60 'Cause even if you're bad at it you'll get Tiger Woods

61 Or M.J.

62 We warriors, we all need senseis

63 Change everything that we done so far

64 I don't mean make 'em BET, T-E-R

65 I mean just the way we see each other

66 I won't stop until they say James Franco

67 Is the white Donald Glover

68 Yeah, these niggas want a cookie

69 But instead I gave 'em Loch Ness

70 Sick boy for life, my swag is in the hospice

71 Aimin' for the throne

72 Jay and Ye said to watch that

73 They ask me what I'm doing

74 And I say I'm stealin' rock back

75 Nigga

76 [Chorus] (x 2)