Number One Songtext
von S’natra

What does it take to be number one?
What does it take to be number one?
What does it take to be number one?
What does it take to be number one?

Tell me what it takes to be
What does it take to be, what does it take to be number one?
What all of the lights can′t see
What does it take to be, what does it take to be number one?
Tell me what it takes to be
(What does it take to be, what does it take to be number one?)
Tell me what it takes to be number one

This the moment everything changed

Haven told me in the end I thought would be the same


And I came a long way from 111
That's the block where I was born and raised right on 7
Good on mama′s fried chicken
But it's much more than an address
That's why half of me savage
The other half′s the timid side
You can′t see through the tinted ride
So, take a journey in this lack with me
Roll some shit and bring a chick to hit the back with me
'Cause I′m schemin'

I ain′t no fuckin' rapper, ain′t no fuckin' trapper
There gotta be qualifications
Nas even had to spit backwards
Like, backwards fitted I could
Backwoods lit in the hood
That could take our minds off the ground
That for years we have stood

But I don't mean to change the subject
Long as you know we both got the same amount of budget

Uh, started with nothin′, still painted a picture

Gotta be a mixture of Salvador Dali flow
Like Muhammad Ali mixed with some Mike Lowrey spitters
And sayin′ prolly instant
Remind me 'bout the image when they used to doubt me


Lost is what they is without me
Loud and goin′ rounds with anyone that's competition ′round me
Thank the stars that hip-hop found me
They always said my dreams were bigger than me
And I know I got a way to go before I achieve
But the ones that ain't believe not lookin′ at me to succeed
And that question on their minds gotta be, uh

Tell me what it takes to be
What does it take to be, what does it take to be number one?
What all of the lights can't see
What does it take to be, what does it take to be number one?
Tell me what it takes to be
(What does it take to be, what does it take to be number one?)
Tell me what it takes to be number one

Tell you what it takes
Ten thousand hours in the place
Gotta have the people in my face
Tellin' me this dream ain′t mine to chase
But it′s just this fire deep down
That won't even let me sleep now
So light it and move the trees ′round
Matter fact, let me wait 'til I open the gates
And make sure Genesis straight
My mom house bill never late

You can win big at casinos bettin′ my shit was never fake
And I always remember the day that I
Looked in the mirror and promised to flow
Ain't tryna go back to the bookings
I′m tryna get booked for a show

Man, if y'all woulda known
The nights I spent in the zone

You see I target the throne

Feelin' like this where I belong

And it′s a warnin′
'Cause lately I been brainstormin′
Lately I been chain-smokin'
Tryna value sane moments
And I know there′s not too many left
And some things ain't goin′ right
But shit at least is goin', I know people lost for life
So to find my reason for breathin' every single season
Man I never stopped dreamin′ or believin′ now

Tell me what it takes to be
What does it take to be, what does it take to be number one?
What all of the lights can't see
What does it take to be, what does it take to be number one?
Tell me what it takes to be
(What does it take to be, what does it take to be number one?)
Tell me what it takes to be number one

What does it take to be number one?
What does it take to be number one?
What does it take to be number one?
(What does it take to be number one?)