[00:00.00]Taxi Driver (Explicit) - Royce da 5'9"
[00:10.04]I'm the taxi driver
[00:12.25]Ridin around with me and my thoughts
[00:14.52]In the back seat behind me speakin
[00:16.47]To me while I'm drivin I'm hearin 'em talk
[00:19.75]To me sayin' where they wanna go
[00:22.04]Soon as they get in and they close the door
[00:24.68]And then I cruise to wherever we ridin'
[00:26.65]Wherever you can imagine from coast to coast
[00:31.03]I got a foot on the gas
[00:32.22]I got my eye on the road
[00:33.41]With an open mind as I roll
[00:34.70]Hopin to spy on my soul
[00:36.16]I lose control pull up to
[00:37.49]A liquor store then get blowed
[00:39.07]Ridin down skid row feelin kind of miserable
[00:41.92]I been the same since my enemies came
[00:43.94]You play the game you get a foul the penalty's pain
[00:46.37]Though I got a pen full of poison the venom is fame
[00:49.06]The light changes I take a right on memory lane
[00:51.56]And see a couple n***as on the corner chillin
[00:54.05]Lookin more and more familiar closer to 'em I get
[00:56.72]I pull up hit the locks they open the door
[00:59.20]And hop in and say they names is hip and hop
[01:01.88]So I grin pretend I don't know 'em for s**t
[01:04.29]I ask ay homie why they call you hip
[01:06.76]He says I'm hip notic hip ocritical
[01:09.08]I could say dear mama and wonder
[01:10.82]Why they call you b***h
[01:11.99]I seen drama I step to the odds
[01:13.93]Lookin at death in the eyes
[01:15.31]They probably murder me check my disguise
[01:16.97]You see it's money over b***hes b***hes bring lies
[01:19.67]Money bring trouble and trouble wanna follow me
[01:22.62]Drop me on the corner of flamingo and koval
[01:24.90]And remember all eyes on you
[01:27.43]Then I come to a stop he exits the car
[01:29.91]So I leave and I hear shots
[01:31.95]I'm the taxi driver
[01:34.04]Ridin around with me and my thoughts
[01:36.25]In the back seat behind me speakin
[01:38.51]To me while I'm drivin I'm hearin 'em talk talk
[01:41.62]To me sayin' where they wanna go
[01:43.91]Soon as they get in and they close the door
[01:46.60]And then I cruise to wherever we ridin'
[01:48.64]Wherever you can imagine from coast to coast
[01:52.35]I'm the taxi driver ridin with one passenger left
[01:55.50]About to catch a left after I catch my breath
[01:58.17]Peelin' past them times
[01:59.40]Where n***as blast them nines
[02:00.71]Paranoid done already lost half my mind
[02:03.24]I'm high thinkin' like what
[02:04.31]If the feds try to out me
[02:05.91]I pull up to a stop on
[02:07.30]A red light at south street
[02:08.44]I catch a parade goin by full
[02:10.25]Of rappers and snappers
[02:11.47]A cadillac float full of trapsters
[02:13.48]Carryin a sign sayin it's our time
[02:15.71]I wave sayin I would never diss y'all grind
[02:18.42]So I'm waitin at the stoplight south street is jumpin
[02:21.09]I look back at hop like
[02:22.45]People call you hop right yes
[02:24.17]After that he's like it's a green light
[02:26.34]You can weave right through if you got keen sight
[02:28.65]To make you a right then head for the valley
[02:31.49]I'm going going to cali cali uhh
[02:34.37]Trust me mo money mo problems
[02:36.64]Especially when you built for the stars
[02:38.64]You rather be drivin your taxi than killed for the car
[02:42.21]So drop me on the corner of wilshire boulevard
[02:44.27]I take him to the place he requested
[02:46.14]I tell him thanks for the message
[02:47.60]The cab shakes when he exits
[02:49.83]I pull off hypnotized then hear shots
[02:52.32]And then my engine die soon as they kill hop
[02:54.59]Hop hop
[02:55.72]What's on your mind who's in your back seat
[03:00.15]Do you go off your own thoughts
[03:02.50]Are you even drivin your own car
[03:05.18]I know what you thinkin
[03:06.67]This n***a sayin hip hop is dead
[03:09.63]Don't take song like I'm sayin we lost hip hop
[03:12.24]Take it like I lost my mind
[03:14.28]I'm the taxi driver
[03:16.43]Ridin around with me and my thoughts
[03:18.66]In the back seat behind me speakin
[03:20.85]To me while I'm drivin I'm hearin 'em talk talk
[03:23.93]To me sayin' where they wanna go
[03:26.17]Soon as they get in and they close the door
[03:28.82]And then I cruise to wherever we ridin'
[03:30.94]Wherever you can imagine from coast to coast
[03:33.47]Coast to coast
[03:34.68]I'm the taxi driver