BIG PAPER – English Lyrics

• By: DJ Khaled, Cardi B
• Album: KHALED KHALED

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the bold language of modern hip-hop with "BIG PAPER." This track offers a great opportunity to understand contemporary slang and the powerful, direct expression often found in rap lyrics. Its confident and confrontational tone makes it a special song for learning about self-assertion and storytelling in music.

Key Grammar Structures

• I’m at the top, and I ain’t going back down.

  ➔ Present perfect with 'have/has' + past participle

  ➔ The phrase 'ain’t going back down' uses the present perfect to indicate an action that started in the past and continues into the present.

• They said I couldn’t, but I proved them wrong.

  ➔ Past tense with 'said' and 'proved'

  ➔ The past tense is used to describe completed actions in the past, such as 'said' and 'proved'.

• If you ain’t got the paper, you can’t sit with us.

  ➔ Present tense with modal 'can’t'

  ➔ The modal verb 'can’t' is used to express inability or prohibition in the present.

• We been winning since the day we started.

  ➔ Present perfect continuous with 'have/has been'

  ➔ The present perfect continuous emphasizes the duration of an action that started in the past and continues into the present.