Hold Up - Derek Minor

Now pay attention to me mayne

Y’all lucky that I’m not hungry today

I could put your favorite rapper on my plate

But I would be starvin' an hour later

Cuz nowadays is music lackin' substance?

Is this the best that we come up with million dollar budgets?

If you trying to hear the dope truth I got the plug then

Get connected to source, I’m shinin' cuz I’m plugged in

Hold up, wait a minute

Boy you got me messed up!

If you think that I’mma sell my soul to write a check off

I’m just tryna write a verse so sick you need a check up

And tell the homie God is real, so boy you keep your head up!

This that motivation you gon need

At the table with our enemies

Napkin round my neck, and we gon' eat

It ain’t nothing you can do to me

I was blind but I see now

Lot of people tryna shut us down

But I do it for the Kingdom now

This redemption He gon hold us down!

I say hold up

I been on my business

Talkin' true like I’m in church, now tell me can I get a witness?

I say hold up

What you see is what you get

And on the real I know they feel it

Cuz I’ve always been authentic

I say hold up

You could never hold us

If you think that we gon fold up

Then I guess you do not know us

I say hold up

You might have to get me going out

Cuz when I’m in it bro you know my teammates with me

I say hold up

I thought I heard you tell me I had to sell out (I'm not for sale)

But I’m still being me on stage at a sell out

What’s the point of being famous if I can’t be the person that I was made to be?

Shining the light of the Lord and a hundred percent Minor?

That’s okay to me

I came up from nothing, I’m leaving with nothing

2000 like Kobe, I shoot at the buzzer

That negative wave, end the discussion

Kill all the hate and not leavin for budgets

And whatever calls, so I gotta ball, what you tryin to say?

I call that bull, and it’s Michael Jordan, watch it fade away

Money and power, money and power

So infatuated, with this

Money and power, money and power

You can’t take it with you homie

Don’t you let it kill you homie

You know I feel you homie

Let’s keep it real homie

Can I keep it real homie?

Some of us not living life we just breathin to death

Knock on the world in your life time then tell me what’s left

One legacy, when I die will y’all still remember me?

I just pray that I’m real as real could be

Show y’all what reflect greatness means

Til then boy

I say hold up

I been on my business

Talkin true like I’m in church now tell me can I get a witness?

I say hold up

What you see is what you get

And on the real I know the feeling it

Cuz I’ve always been authentic

I say hold up

You could never hold us

If you think that we gon fold up

I guess you do not know us

I say hold up

You might have to get me going out

Cuz when I’m in it bro you know my teammates with me

I say hold up

I say hold up

I say hold up

I say hold up