And, if you notice, half the hook isn’t words, it’s humming. And when he starts humming I’m like, “Oh this n****’s the truth! Good lookin'.” So I tell him, “Don’t hum it, go in the booth, bro!” So he goes in the booth. And as soon as the verse stops, he starts humming.
I’m like, “Man you brought I don’t know to my studio?”Īs soon as the beat starts playing, everybody’s bobbing their head. I’m like, “I ain’t tell you to bring nobody I said come through!” I’m real funny about who comes to the studio I was a little upset, to be honest. And she brought this guy I never met before. So I called her up and said I need a hook for this. She writes like a trained songwriter, but she got hip-hop swag, too. One of my homegirls did a lot of hooks on my mixtape catalog. And after they got his personal letter, they cleared it for him. I read the book put out, Decoded, talking about how they didn’t clear it at first and he had to write them directly and tell a story about just why the song means something to him. He elaborated on Hov trying to clear the original sample: And then we had to clear Jay version also because we used the version that he used on his album. When Jay got the record cleared originally, was something in his agreement that made it to where, you know, they would continue to clear it for hip-hop artists, for the Annie sample. When asked about the difficulty in clearing the Annie sample, Nipsey said the Roc-A-Fella founder already had a standing arrangement: That’s just the farthest thing from the truth.
They got this narrative, assuming we want to be in the streets going through what we go through and taking risk. The hook is basically saying I don’t do this for nothing.
Surrounded by drug and gang violence, the Los Angeles-born emcee turns his Crip-affiliated upbringing into a more productive and beneficial story, explicitly one that ends with success: And I don't do this for nothin', nah, from the ground up, yeah But I don't do this shit for nothin', no, no, not at all, yeah My mama need rent, ma need rent, yeah, she do, aw yeah So I don't do this shit for nothin', no, not at all, all I told her I got it, oh, yeah So I don't do this shit for nothin', not at all, from the ground up Hustle and motivate (Woo) Back in this bitch like I never left Stand for some shit that you never rep Passing through stages in life Through the ups and the downs like it's all just another test Live by the rules like a fuckin' ref I got respect in a hundred sets Too many chains, need another chest Playin' no games if it wasn't chess Cut from that cloth that you couldn't stretch Cut from that circle you couldn't test Heavily pressured and under stress Even though niggas ain't show it, we was a mess Honest attempt, play him to the left Judge a young nigga by they address Left us no option, what they expect? Only thing we knew for sure was to bang the set Fuck livin' basic, I'm takin' risks Fuck what they sayin', I'm sayin' this Don't waste your time, it don't make you rich It don't mean nothin', so fuck 'em, let's make a grip Double up, triple up, make it six Ballin' so hard, you could pay a bitch Lead to the lake if they wanna fish Make sure them niggas around you stick to the script This should be written in stone You should come visit my zone Don't take my word, double-check all of my flows Ask 'em how Hussle got on But fuck what you heard This is for who walked down that road Sold everything but they soul Straight off the curb, real niggas rich as you nerds Addressed to whom it may concern I don't do this for nothin', nahĪn obvious play on his own name (“Hustle”), Nipsey samples Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” to address the misconception of people who grew up in the hood wanting to live the so-called ‘street life.’
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