Nuthin' - Doug E. Fresh

Yeah, yeah This could have been about a lot of things But it's not so don't stop and try to look for the message The world moves and it don't ask why Your kids will burn red hot like the fourth of July I could have told about what's in-between of the head and the hand But you wouldn't even understand I could have told about the rise and the fall But this time I swear it's not about anything at all! This ain't a song about nuthin' This ain't a song about nuthin' at all This ain't a song about nuthin' This ain't a song about anyone or anything This could have been about a lot of things But it's not so don't waste time to look for the meaning You heard so many things you couldn't recall But this time I swear it's not about anything at all This ain't a song about nuthin' This ain't a song about nuthin' at all This ain't a song about nuthin' This ain't a song about anyone or anything This ain't a song about nuthin' This ain't a song about nuthin' at all Not anyone, not anything Not anything, not anyone Not anyone, not anything Not anything, not anyone Not anyone, not anything Not anything, not anyone Not anyone, not anything Not anything at all, anything at all This ain't a song about nuthin' This ain't a song about nuthin' at all This ain't a song about nuthin' This ain't a song about anyone or anything This could have been about a lot of things But it's not so don't stop and try and to look for the message This could have been about a lot of things But it's not

Gawvi, get 'em! Here we go again in circles I think I heard it all We been here before But we need something more Something more Something more What you say I can't hear 'cause you Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') What you talking 'bout? They be talking 'bout the same old thing I'ma have to call a foul in the game What you talking 'bout? A little money, now you all OG Talking 'bout it's all eyes on me They ain't talking 'bout nuthin' Let me guess you counting money to the ceiling Difference 'tween us like at least a couple million It's foreign cars, pretty girls everywhere you go Yeah I heard it 30 times on the radio Louis Vuitton ain't gon' pay you for that bragging And Donatella prolly never heard your album Yeah they probably 'bout to label me a hater But I know these people greater than the songs they created It's little homies in the hood regurgitating And everybody watching thinking that you made it The truth is for a few designer labels And a little bit of paper, now you 12 years slaving Hey but you ain't Lupita So why you beat up and pushing people to lean on the devil Copping a seizure It sound like you put your feet up You still a slave and money can't buy you freedom partna' Here we go again in circles I think I heard it all We been here before But we need something more Something more Something more What you say I can't hear 'cause you Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') What you talking 'bout? They be talking 'bout the same old thing I'ma have to call a foul in the game What you talking 'bout? A little money, now you all OG Talking 'bout it's all eyes on me They ain't talking 'bout nuthin' Tell me why the song's on in my car (Hear the radio) Why the song on in my gym (What they saying now?) And the song's stuck in my head (I can't take no more) I still don't know what y'all saying Lemme lemme lemme do this I'ma be a straight shooter And we was made in his image Why we so Judas? Talking bread like we at the last supper Throwing money at these women, make it rain in the summer I ain't advertising brands on the radio They expensive and I know they ain't gon' pay me for Telling kids to go in debt, for the 'vette that they'll prolly never get But I talk about it every song And every song talking 'bout they selling work on every corner Don't talk about the laws, taking kids away from mommas Don't talk about your homie in the trauma 'cause he shot up Or what about your young boy messing up the product They don't talk about the bond money that they ain't have And everybody snitch on everybody in the jam They don't talk about the pain, they don't talk about the struggle How they turn to the Lord when they ran into trouble I'ma talk about it I don't care if the world try to swallow me I turn my back to 'em, tell 'em all follow me I know you gon' label me a hater But inside you are greater than the songs you creating man Here we go again in circles I think I heard it all We been here before We need something more Something more Something more What you say I can't hear 'cause you Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') Ain't talking 'bout nuthin' (Ain't talking 'bout nuthin') What you talking 'bout? They be talking 'bout the same old thing I'ma have to call a foul in the game What you talking 'bout? A little money, now you all OG Talking 'bout it's all eyes on me They ain't talking 'bout nuthin' A little money, now you all OG Talking 'bout it's all eyes on me They ain't talking 'bout nuthin' Hey man, the way I see it I think we were made for more Than just, ya know, the simple things that we aspire toward We were made for more than just telling stories about How much money we can get from selling poison to people It's time to talk about who we are and who we can be And we need to build each other up and not put each other down I feel like we not talking about nothing right now

Now I'm of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret. Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen may even ask my name As she sheds her skin on stage I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A. The strip joint veteran sits two away Smirking between dignified sips Of his dignified peach and lime daiquiri And isn't this exactly where you'd like me I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety Oh, and isn't this exactly where you'd like me I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety Oh, but I'm afraid that I Well, I may of faked it And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place Well, I'm afraid that I Well, that's right, that I may have faked it And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place And isn't this exactly where you'd like me I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety Oh, and isn't this exactly where you'd like me I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety Well, I'm afraid that I Well, I may of faked it And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place Well, I'm afraid that I Well, that's right, well I may have faked it And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place And isn't this exactly where you'd like me I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety Oh, and isn't this exactly where you'd like me I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety Praying for love and paying in naivety Praying for love and paying in naivety, oh