Young Reela & Arone - Top Dawg Lyrics

All negatives around me yeah they gotta go
Relationships I lost while I been in album mode
All for a purpose dawg and the greater good
Been to the top how bout I make it there and stay for good
The longest I ever worked on a piece of music
Goosebumps every single time we speak releasing music
I never shunned away from it cause what it mean to me
I did it with the fam too, yeah I got the team with me
Moving forward cause we know just what the past bring us
My sister my manager, they said it was bad business
But I'm here, ready to dodge the obstacles
And when it come to music dawg, you never need to follow rules
I had Arone engineer you know my vocals clean
Just the belief in me, made me write hopeful things
Dre my brother since kids now he my A&R
Making songs better while I just display the bars
Knew I had Cha$e, ain't no ReelSeason
They told me hip hop was dead guess what I'm still breathing
What up Kenobe what up Joka what up PD Visions
Aye through a camera lens aye you help em see the visions
The things I put to the side to make this album work
We made it happen, and we didn't care how it worked
Momma been fighting brain tumors since the age of 8
Cant wait to buy both of y'all a house in a major place
In a major city, that's my validation
Checks and balances I gotta fix my calibration
Shed tears when I put the pen to the pad
Rapping my lights out like this is all that I have
Cuz it is, who be giving all I give
I be listening to other rappin like aye boy y'all mid
I got way too much dependent and it's all on my success
Can't wait to post up with the team so we say that we blessed, uh
The L's that I took in this position
That's the reason that I got this disposition
Riding down 595 just for some clarity
Putting my life on the line hoping for some rarity
See the vision execute I know some counting on me
The county counting on me pressures I got mounted on me
And if I change tell me where I steered off
Cause they could write your name in history then get it smeared off uh
Be humble through your circumstances and your trials too
Tried to knock me off my pivot know they tried to
Know I said Broward but I rep the whole tri county
Always keep some real ones dawg and they gon die by me
You gotta make it different with a greater purpose
Make sure you never lose your focus and you stay focused
Aye you gotta make it different with a greater purpose
Make sure you never lose your focus and you stay focused, uh

Go through what?
The whole making of 2 Sides
Let me put this closer
Oh... uh ReelOSSM 210
You know what I mean
Broward Nigga
Whore
Broward Whore lets get it
Naw it all started with "Pillow Talk"
Pillow Talk was 2017
Cause I remember, he dropped my Jordan Year
And I remember I was running through the tape
I was playing Need for Speed on my PS2 bro
I was chilling cooling
And "Gentlemen" came on
The beat Gentlemen came on
And I was like Oooh
And I was freestyling to it I was like "Where ya mind at uh"
And I'm playing the game I'm like
I texted this nigga "Sooooo anybody got the beat?"
He said "Bruh It's all you."
I dropped $25 over there
Say less I bought the beat
Bruh the next day I hand it back to him, "Pillow Talk"
Boom that was it
He was like "Nigga"
Right
And that was the first part
So I'm listening to it more, I'm like "Yo I got an idea for the second half"
So I'm like alright I messed around with it a little bit

I took the sample that he had and then I flipped it
And then I just added a beat pattern over it and then I put an 808 on that shit

And I just let it ride
And I was like "Bruh I got a second half for Pillow Talk, period"
Right

I sent it to him cause I did, I recorded my vocals over it
And I was like let me know what you think

I sent it to him he was like "Bruh I gotta drop a bar or two"
I said "Say less"
I extended it, sent it to him
Boom there was "Pillow Talk"
So it was just going to be a single
When we started bumping it more and more
I was like "Yo bro we should do a project where we got literally half and half"
Yeah this is end of 2017
This is end of 2017 going into 2018
The beginning of 2018 I was like "Bruh I don't wanna do no project"
Geee
He was like "Naw let's just keep cooking up singles"
I was alright "Say less"
And then it started resonating with me more
I was like "Naw man like I'm telling you"
So I sent him a version where I put them two together
I put the A side and the B side together
I was like "Bruh like listen to it tell me what you think"
He was like "Yeah"
He was like "Yeah"
I'm like Bruh like we should do a project where we got literally got 2 Sides
This is three months ago
Literally
We were cooking up that whole year
Literally
Like outside of all the other shit that we was cooking up
Like I was still, I still brought that shit up
We right there at Regional we was talking about it
I was like Bruh we should do it
I was like I'm going to push you production wise like you need to do this shit
He was like Alright say less
And then next thing I know, three months prior to
The tape being finished
When we finished it, and prior to that like we was talking about I was like
Bruh like when this shit is finished when gon come back
When gon listen to this shit and it's gonna be like cohesive as f*ck
This that and the third

And Matter of fact it was, it was, what was it? It was "Time Tickin" and "Two Thirds" and It was "Westside" and "Eastside"

That was the last two tracks that came together
Because we had
We wrote "Fallin" and "Trippin" like April last year
Yeah but we never recorded it
We was chilling out there
Cause he had the beats and he was playing em
And I freestyled over it and we was writing sumn
He wrote some, I wrote some
But we never recorded it
But we had it
And I was like f*ck it nigga like, let's do it
And we named it and that was that
Cause it was orginally for ummm Keso
WAASI and Keso right
And then that became a thing
And then we had Time Tickin and Two Thirds
And then you created Time Tickin
Yeah yeah yeah
Time Tickin was over there
I just played it over there just like bruh just do it
And then he sent it
And then I was like Alright say less
And then we had the whole concept together
And I was like alright bruh this how it should go
And then next thing I know I asked him alright how should we put it in order
And bruh Reela is the GOAT when it comes to arrangement
When it comes to like organizing shit
And putting that shit in order
Start with this, do this, do this
He said it he was like "Bruh"
Pillow Talk this, this, this, this, this that's how it's gon go
I was like Had A Long Day don't sound like it's finished
Right
He was naw
So I said Alright say less
He sent me one beat
And I was like I can't lie bruh, this ain't it. Like go back. Go back to the drawing board
I told him that, I told him that straight up
I was like alright say less
The next day he hit me
Boom
I was like this the one, this the one, this the one
I wrote to that shit I recorded it I sent it back to him
He was like yeah bruh that's it
I put it together and I was like Alright
I was in a Target when this nigga texted me
He was like yeah man I wanna do 2 Sides about Miramar
Like the Westside and the Eastside and put two and two together

And I told him I was like I been on this beat block for a minute but let me produce it
If you got the lyrics say less

That same night, I went, I cooked up the beats I sent it to him
Boom
There was Westside/Eastside
And then it all came together
And it was like
I had wrote that at Regional
And then recorded it the same day
He wrote Eastside right there at Regional
Like we was there
That was when the girl had came up to us like she was coolin with us
Yeahhh
And you gave her the lighter, yeah yeah
Cause she was chilling she was like Oh so you guys do music
Yo you know it's sumn light, sumn light, sumn light
But she was coolin
Yeah man take this pressure ass wristband
Yeah yeah
And we passed out the wristbands and that was it
And then he finished writing his verse
We posted up in my whip
I played the beat
He did his verse
He was like

Better hold on, I know I be cooking up with all the slow songs
All the old dates that the kid blowed off, right?

So we did that
And I was like that's it
We recorded it
Next thing I know I'm like Yo that's Westside/Eastside right there
We recorded it, shit was that
I mixed it down, 2 Sides, that was it
So that shit started from 2017
Yooo

Because Pillow Talk was just going to be a single
And we had it as part 1 and part 2
So like part 1 we was gon drop here and then part 2 was gon be something else

And I was like naw bruh like we should make a whole project on this shit
Like have literally you know the brightness and darkness come to one
Because you have your style, I have my style

Bruh that shit...