Drake Songs - Trophies Lyrics

Drake - Trophies

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Album: Young Money: The Rise of an Empire
Released: 2013

Trophies Lyrics

Yeah

Had hit records on my demo
Did y'all boys not get the memo
I do not stay at the Intercontinental
And anything I got is not a rental, I own that mothafucka
Figured out this shit, it's simple
My stock been going up like a crescendo
A bunch of handshakes from the fakes
But nigga I do not want to be friends though
I told y'all mofuckers, man, this sh-t is not a love song
This is a fuck a stripper on a mink rug song
This a fuck them boys forever, hold a grudge song
Pop some fucking champagne in the tub song
Nigga “just because† song

What's the move?
Can I tell truth? If I was doing this for you
Then I have nothing left to prove, nah
This for me, though
I'm just tryna stay alive and take care of my people
And they don't have no award for that
Trophies
Trophies
And they don't have no award for that
Shit don't come with trophies, ain't no envelopes to open
I just do it 'cause I'm ‘sposed to, nigga

Bitch I go to Dreams with a suitcase
I got my whole country on a new wave
She like, “I heard all your niggas stay where you stay†
House so big I haven't seen them boys in two days
Bitch, I use a walkie talkie just to get a beverage
I saw my parents split up right after the wedding
That taught my ass to stay committed, fuck a credit
Bitch check the numbers, I'm the one who really get it
I told y'all mo'fuckas, man, this shit is not a love song
This a doing me and only God can judge song
I do not know what the fuck you thought it was song
Pop some fucking champagne in the tub song
Nigga, “just because† song

What's the move?
Can I tell truth? If I was doing this for you
Then I have nothing left to prove, nah
This for me, though
I'm just tryna stay alive and take care of my people
And they don't have no award for that
Trophies
Trophies
And they don't have no award for that
Shit don't come with trophies, ain't no envelopes to open
I just do it 'cause I'm ‘sposed to, nigga

Writer/s: THOMAS, MARVIN / MARTIN, RAYMOND / GRAHAM, AUBREY / GERARD, BERNARD / HOLLIS, CHAUNCEY / SHEBIB, NOAH / ABSHIRE, SHARON
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Trophies

This bombastic, horn-heavy celebratory number was first previewed as an instrumental in a short trailer for Drake's Nothing Was the Same album. Drizzy's DJ also shared a snippet with fans during the rapper's October 2013 Would You Like a Tour? stop in Brooklyn. The song didn't make the final cut for the record as the Toronto MC couldn't finish it in time, but he eventually made the tune available on December 29th. Speaking with Jian Ghomenshi on Canada's CBC Radio about Nothing Was The Same, Drake said that rather than recording a huge amount of tracks, only to slowly whittle them down, he takes the opposite approach. "I'm not a guy that does 40 songs for a project and picks 13 of them," said the Toronto MC. "If I'm gonna go as far as to track over a beat, I usually have the utmost faith in it that it'll end up somewhere."

"I don't really dispose of too many songs," Drake added. "I have stuff that didn't make this album definitely, but I don't have 20 or 30 of them — I have four or five records that just didn't make it because I was trying to keep it concise and whatever I end up doing with those, I'll do with them."

Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis (Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Niggas in Paris," Rihanna's "Watch N' Learn," Nicki Minaj's "I Am Your Leader") supplied the thunderous beat. The producer originally sent the instrumental to Childish Gambino but the rapper didn't use it so he dispatched the beat instead to Drake. Hagler and Drizzy's go-to man, Noah "40" Shebib, also have production credits.