Mac Miller
Brand Name lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2015
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 5:03
We in between heaven and hell
Fuck a 9 to 5, I'd rather end up dead or in jail
American Ninja to these obstacles, no stoppin' me
We on the move
Your mouth runnin' like a prostitute's
Keep your head to yourself
I work harder than anybody you know
I'm done with tricks, don't need no money to blow
Deadly aim, self-contained, superstar, they yell the name
Blood diamonds, finna go to hell for my chain
The P fitted on my head though
I'm too high, you can't reach me with the cell phone
No goodbyes, no hellos
You don't want this life I live, you rather have the wife and kid
Shootin' dice with Jesus Christ, put twenty on the midnight
To everyone who sell me drugs: don't mix it with that bullshit
I'm hopin' not to join the 27 Club
Just want the coke dealer house with the velvet rug
Fuck the world, there's no one else but us
Everything we think we love
It ain't nothin' but a brand name
To everyone but us (Every motherfucker but us)
It ain't nothin' but a brand name, nothin' but a brand name
Yeah
Ask her what she wearin', say it's nothin' but a brand name
Baby, this right here is handmade
Yeah I got brothers, I don't need no friends
My shoes off, I'm comfortable
I'm chillin', smokin' weed again
I'm from the 'Burgh, not the burbs
Investigatin' my nation, homie, we ain't concerned
Went from the 412 out to the 310
Went from the pavement in my basement to them yellow brick roads
See I was on my P's and Q's like L-M-N-O
But kickin' bitches out my crib, somebody tell 'em go home, oh no
I was in the crib with my different shit
Simple livin', I'm a hypocrite
'Cause I'm filthy rich and got businesses, been had wifey, had mistresses
Been tryin' tell you what my vision is, but y'all still ain't listenin'
The war ain't winnin', it's just beginnin', and I been 'bout Sparta like Michigan
I got stats, they got opinions, I got facts
LeBron left home, but he came back, this what raised me, made me rap
PA's baby, I ain't been to PA lately
See, I left and they call me shady
I'm a white rapper, they always call me Shady
Got no idea what I'm contemplatin', I guess
Everything we think we love
It ain't nothin' but a brand name
To everyone but us (Every motherfucker but us)
It ain't nothin' but a brand name, nothin' but a brand name
Yeah
Ask her what she wearin', say it's nothin' but a brand name
Baby, this right here is handmade
La, la, la, la (la, la, la, la)
Yeah
(La, la, la, la)
Everything we love, love
Good morning (la, la, la, la)
Good morning
And everyone but us (Every motherfucker but us)
Good morning (la, la, la, la)
Good morning, yeah
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Key vocabulary
- basement
- lower part under a houseB2
- brick
- hard building blockB2
- brothers
- male siblingsA1
- businesses
- companies and shopsA1
- came
- arrivedA1
- club
- place for socializingA1
- different
- not the sameA1
- else
- other; anotherA1
- end
- finish pointA1
- every
- each oneA1
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About this song
Mac Miller was an American rapper and singer from Pittsburgh whose genre-spanning hip-hop combined party-starting beginnings with introspective, often jazzy and philosophical songwriting. He first broke through with the mainstream success of Blue Slide Park and later became a self-produced auteur credited under the name Larry Fisherman, known for candid material that culminated in his final album Swimming.