Childish Gambino - Clap On lyrics

[Verse] Yes. I'm a rapper; I don't know what you think one is But I know what it feels like to be one kid that- Started! in upper middle cla** Bright, energetic, and a tad bit sad, a- Neurotic! inquisitive, idealistic, misfit, distant, emotional little lad Strange by definition; way too strange for definition If you ask me, a little mad Like a scientist Or my dad when he found all those cuss words in my pad Tell me, how would you feel if I told you Lil Wayne is why I started rap? I already loved to write before that fateful night that Da Drought 3 crashed in my consciousness But life was starting to get onerous GPA no longer "honor-ous" And writing it down was the only thing making any kind of sense So word after word I would scribe 'til my mind got a hold of itself, and broke from the bind that day-to-day grey would place on my faith to break, rape, and plague me most of the time I got doper with time... got colder with rhymes And that coldness showed itself to be my new shoulder to cry on Ironically enough Spilled my guts like I threw up in a cup and knocked it over Eventually, I learned to be more selective and pop a soda So now I sip Dew and make it do what it does when it's due, never too much, never too much Like Luther Vandross, here and now I stand tall and hand y'all my heart However "achey" and "breaky" it may be Like, Osiris, I feel dead He said, "Here's a go-ahead" "Spit with life again" And that was wordplay, not worship I'm a wordsmith; peace to Egypt, d**h to t**n' And now I'm just standin' here smirkin', like- Music is magic; Melvin is Merlin