Credits
AUSFÜHRENDE KÜNSTLER:INNEN
JRDN
Künstler:in
Gordon David Strickland
Künstler:in
KOMPOSITION UND LIEDTEXT
Skye Stoney
Komponist:in
Gordon David Strickland
Komponist:in
Jordan Croucher
Komponist:in
Quincey Bowen
Komponist:in
PRODUKTION UND TECHNIK
Gordon David Strickland
Mischtechniker:in
Lyrics
<span begin="1.707" end="4.173">Certainmans can’t come round my ends</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="3.722" end="4.590">(Certainmans)</span></span>
Certainmans can’t call me friends
<span begin="7.322" end="9.607">Certainmans ain’t been where I’ve been</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="9.225" end="10.175">(Certainmans)</span></span>
Certainmans don’t know
Certainmans don’t know
Certainmans don’t know
Let a chokehold on your neck
Have your juicebox soaking wet
Drippin’ like this nine pack
I’m wide a-whippin’
In a Hell’s Angels diner’s kitchen
In Kitchener, Waterloo
Summer trap house barbeques
Ice cold, wanna buy food
Carpools with long shocks
Every trick in the drug trade
We played in the park
Under the big tree on Oak Street out there in the dark
Side of the North Face
Off-track gamblin’
Side betting my horse, racial profilin’
My cabinet officials are official, no whistle-blowers
By the play-by-play out, pistol shareholders
Don’t get laid out, shots fired
Young bucks is hungry for licks
My little Ti-Cats in H-Town
Moving them bricks
Half a brick, quarter bricklayer
Shoutout to my west coast playas, keepin’ it G
<span begin="1:03.139" end="1:05.439">Certainmans can’t come round my ends</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:05.105" end="1:05.940">(Certainmans)</span></span>
Certainmans can’t call me friends
<span begin="1:08.841" end="1:11.006">Certainmans ain’t been where I’ve been</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:10.773" end="1:11.657">(Certainmans)</span></span>
<span begin="1:11.408" end="1:13.117">Certainmans don’t know</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:13.568" end="1:14.218">(They don’t know)</span></span>
<span begin="1:14.336" end="1:16.051">Certainmans don’t know</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:16.302" end="1:17.768">(They don’t know)</span></span>
<span begin="1:17.101" end="1:18.685">Certainmans don’t know</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:18.519" end="1:19.752">(Yeah, they don’t know)</span></span>
Certainmans don’t know
I have friends everywhere that I go
<span begin="1:24.672" end="1:26.672">I’m the one that they really hate</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:26.507" end="1:27.021">(Why?)</span></span>
<span begin="1:27.456" end="1:29.456">When I’m the one you should appreciate</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:29.341" end="1:29.907">(True)</span></span>
I’m all in with the darkest fate
<span begin="1:32.159" end="1:34.877">Natives like me, we don’t come around every day</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:34.971" end="1:35.621">(Nah)</span></span>
I’m braided up and I’m straight drippin’
<span begin="1:38.189" end="1:40.584">Up here, I’m the one that gon’ make em’ listen</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:40.552" end="1:41.066">(True)</span></span>
'Cause we come from the same kitchen
<span begin="1:43.586" end="1:46.321">Same pot to piss in, same Pyrex vision</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:44.787" end="1:46.870">(Work, work)</span></span>
Bullet wounds and a cool life
<span begin="1:48.838" end="1:51.758">Well, I thought it was, but they just wasn’t schooled right</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:51.876" end="1:52.390">(Yeah)</span></span>
Hard knocks taught me who nice
<span begin="1:54.413" end="1:57.397">And who woulda thought we the ones being sacrificed</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="1:57.198" end="1:57.831">(Whoa)</span></span>
I’m the last of a dyin’ breed
Everywhere I go, I got them demons right beside me
<span begin="2:03.834" end="2:05.006">How you love that?</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:04.891" end="2:05.723">(Ay)</span></span>
Up here they tryna to kill all my people, whatcha call that?
<span begin="2:10.151" end="2:12.318">Certainmans can’t come round my ends</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:12.134" end="2:13.086">(Certainmans)</span></span>
Certainmans can’t call me friends
<span begin="2:15.786" end="2:17.902">Certainmans ain’t been where I’ve been</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:17.769" end="2:18.603">(Certainmans)</span></span>
<span begin="2:18.470" end="2:20.003">Certainmans don’t know</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:20.505" end="2:21.206">(They don’t know)</span></span>
<span begin="2:21.363" end="2:23.006">Certainmans don’t know</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:23.323" end="2:24.707">(They don’t know)</span></span>
<span begin="2:24.073" end="2:25.590">Certainmans don’t know</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:26.073" end="2:26.724">(They don’t know)</span></span>
Certainmans don’t know
I have friends everywhere that I go
Certainmans don’t know
<span begin="2:35.127" end="2:36.927">Certainmans don’t know</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:37.202" end="2:38.279">(Certainmans)</span></span>
<span begin="2:38.044" end="2:40.063">Certainmans don’t know</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:39.979" end="2:41.263">(Certainmans)</span></span>
<span begin="2:42.697" end="2:43.796">They don’t know</span> <span ttm:role="x-bg"><span begin="2:43.580" end="2:44.262">(No)</span></span>
They don’t know
They don’t know, oh
Don’t know
Written by: Gordon David Strickland, Jordan Croucher, Quincey Bowen, Sarain Skye Stoney