Rap Saved Me Lyrics

[Intro: 21 Savage, Offset & Future]
Goyard duffel got a lot of racks in it (Hey)
Louis Vuitton got a lot of racks in it (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
My carry-on got a lot of racks in it (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Everywhere I go I got them racks with me (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you dig?
For real, huh, huh, huh, hey

(If young Metro don't trust you, I'm gon' shoot you)

[Chorus: 21 Savage & Offset]
I'm gangbanging (Gang), and I'm dangerous (Hey)
Smith & Wesson (Brrt), and it's stainless (Woo)
Brand new 'Rari (Skrrt), I'm finna paint it (Yeah)
She took a Xanny (Yeah), then she fainted (Yeah)
I'm from the gutter (Hey), ain't no changing (Nah)
From the gutter (Gutter), rap saved me (Rap)

She drive me crazy (Drive me brazy), have my baby (Have my baby)
Need my cash (Need my racks), fuck you, pay me (Fuck you, pay me, Offset)

[Verse 1: Offset]
Uh, where is the money? (Where?)
Where is the, where is the paper? (Where?)
Ooh, there go the acres, ooh
They biting my drip like a sabre, yeah, yeah
Who is my neighbor? (Who?)
I live on the island, I'm sacred (Island)

Yeah, life is The Matrix (Matrix)
Be rich or be broke and be basic (Rich)
You don't want static, yeah
All of my shooters on Addys, yeah, yeah (You don't want static)
A-list status, uh, uh
His and her Pateks (His and hers)
Out of here, gone, gone, gone, zoom
Baguettes on the watch make 'em walk out the room
You keep the fire, but you shoot at the moon
I get the fire and I aim at your noon
Street sweeper, we not talkin' 'bout the broom, ooh (Nah)
I got more blow than balloons (Blow)

You smell that Biscotti perfume
Yeah, we the wave and we big like typhoons (Woo)
Go fifty-nine, eighty with moons (Bustdown)
Twenty-five million my move (Twenty-five)
I drip in my sleep on snooze (Drip)
I love when I meet Jesús
[Chorus: 21 Savage & Offset]
I'm gangbanging (Gang, yeah), and I'm dangerous (Yeah)
Smith & Wesson (Yeah), and it's stainless (Yeah)
Brand new 'Rari (Yeah), I'm finna paint it (Yeah)
She took a Xanny (Yeah), then she fainted (Yeah)
I'm from the gutter (Yeah), ain't no changing (Yeah)
From the gutter (Yeah), rap saved me (Yeah)

She drive me crazy (Yah), have my baby (Yah)
Need my cash (Yah), fuck you, pay me (Yah)

[Verse 2: 21 Savage]
I'm sedated (Yah), eyes lazy (Yah)
Bloody Phantom (Yah), the seats brazy (Yah)
I don't do payments, uh-huh (Yah), new Bentayga, uh-huh (Yah)
Cost two-eighty, uh-huh (Yah), bitch, I paid it, uh-huh (Yah)
Rover SVR and I got the seats blazin' (21)
Went against the gang and he got his cheese grated (21)
Bitch, you just a nut, baby, we are not dating (21)
My tanktop Givenchy, lil' bitch, I'm not basic (21)
Sellin' glass out the house, nigga (House, nigga)
J's smokin' in the house, nigga (The house, nigga)
Send some bullets at your spouse, nigga (Spouse, nigga)
Hide the racks in the couch, nigga (Couch, nigga)

[Chorus: 21 Savage & Offset]
I'm gangbanging (Yeah), and I'm dangerous (Yeah)
Smith & Wesson (Yeah), and it's stainless (Yeah)
Brand new 'Rari (Yeah), I'm finna paint it (Yeah)
She took a Xanny (Yeah), then she fainted (Yeah)
I'm from the gutter (Hey, yeah), ain't no changing (Nah, yeah)
From the gutter (Gutter, yeah), rap saved me (Rap, yeah)

She drive me crazy (Drive me brazy, yah), have my baby (Have my baby, yah)
Need my cash (Need my racks, yah), fuck you, pay me (Fuck you, pay me, yah)
[Verse 3: Quavo]
Uh-uh-uh-uh, uh
Uh-uh-uh-uh, uh
Uh-uh-uh-uh, uh
Chopper talk (Yeah), AK, AK walk (Brrt, brrt)
Spray the block (Spray), it's an outline, chalk (Outline, chalk)
We don't talk, young nigga be stackin' up that sign language (Stack it)
If you get out of line, disrespect your boss, you should do just fire 'em, ain't ya? (Fire)
Ironing boards (Ironing)
Straightening money on ironing boards (Yeah)

Connect the streets (Streets)
Nigga keep lookin', can't find no cord (Yeah)
Patek Philippe (Patek)
So much water can't find no shore (Drippin')

Save your beef (Save it)
Nigga, nobody can't find no war

[Chorus: 21 Savage & Offset]
I'm gang banging (Gang), and I'm dangerous (Hey)
Smith & Wesson (Brrt), and it's stainless (Woo)
Brand new 'Rari (Skrrt), I'm finna paint it (Yeah)
She took a Xanny (Yeah), then she fainted (Yeah)
I'm from the gutter (Hey), ain't no changing (Nah)
From the gutter (Gutter), rap saved me (Rap)

She drive me crazy (Drive me brazy), have my baby (Have my baby)
Need my cash (Need my racks), fuck you, pay me (Fuck you, pay me)

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Genius Annotation

“Rap Saved Me” finds Metro Boomin juxtaposing both Migo’s energized triplet cadence to 21’s appropriately lethargic delivery in a track where the latter repeatedly references the consumption of sedatives; with Metro’s understatedly motivational instrumental enabling him to blend in seamlessly.

Descriptions of violence, gangland activity, and drug consumption are ironically intonated in a song that effectively praises rap as a form of liberation from such factors – a potential vehicle leading to destinations beyond the tremulous lifestyles of those afflicted by criminality/struggle.

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Have 21 Savage and Quavo collaborated before?
Genius Answer

No, this marks their first collaboration.

Has this track received any certifications?
Genius Answer

“Rap Saved Me” was certified platinum by the RIAA on March 31, 2021.

How did this record perform on the charts?
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