Dope – English Lyrics

• By: Yelawolf
• Album: Mud Mouth

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Catfish Billy mane, harder than a pinecone

Hoppin' off an aeroplane, dropped in your time zone

Trailer park pimp shit, I don't want the red rope

Fuck all the report cards, bitch, I know that I'm dope

We know how to get bud, some of them do cocaine

Take it to the moshpit, gang, gang, gang, gang

Tailor made boots on 'em, shotgun shell hot

Do it for the slums now, from the AL dot

Rock from a slingshot, straight to the target

Window on the Honda, in the black market

Coulda been a crime boss, playin' with a full deck

I don't care about the cost, now the red alert full threat

'Cause you know that I'm dope

Used to be a bad mouth, runnin' 'round the house

Sayin' words that I shouldn't and I got it from my folks

If I got caught, I would end up in my room

Set down 30 minutes with the mouth full of soap

Put it all on paper, go to sleep

Then I wake up with the same bad mouth I was sent to bed fo'

Now I make a livin' sellin' all the bad words to the kids like me

Who would grow to be dope

Used to be a bad mouth, runnin' 'round the house

Sayin' words that I shouldn't and I got it from my folks

If I got caught, I would end up in my room

Set down 30 minutes with the mouth full of soap

Put it all on paper, go to sleep

Then I wake up with the same bad mouth I was sent to bed fo'

Now I make a livin' sellin' all the bad words to the kids like me

Walkin' on thin ice, got a lot of weight on me

You don't wanna roll the dice, gotta ride a team homie

Talk about money well, I don't really give a damn

Got your girl by the ponytail, she don't wanna lead a man

40 in a paper bag, blood on the sidewalk

Must've been the aftermath, somebody shit talked

Neighborhood gone wild, needles in the trash pile

Used to never get a callback, now they got me on speed dial

Feet in the reptiles and my head's on cloud nine

Took a hit of dab now and I don't have no mind

Outta body, in the zone, stoned like a white boy

Still sittin' on chrome, out for the night boy

And you know that I'm dope

Used to be a bad mouth, runnin' 'round the house

Sayin' words that I shouldn't and I got it from my folks

If I got caught, I would end up in my room

Set down 30 minutes with the mouth full of soap

Put it all on paper, go to sleep

Then I wake up with the same bad mouth I was sent to bed fo'

Now I make a livin' sellin' all the bad words to the kids like me

Who would grow to be dope

Used to be a bad mouth, runnin' 'round the house

Sayin' words that I shouldn't and I got it from my folks

If I got caught, I would end up in my room

Set down 30 minutes with the mouth full of soap

Put it all on paper, go to sleep

Then I wake up with the same bad mouth I was sent to bed fo'

Now I make a livin' sellin' all the bad words to the kids like me

Got a belt for a shoestring, hangin' off the blue jeans

Saggin' like a wet dog, limpin' off of codeine

Bitch got an attitude, she just wanna be mean

Now she got a napkin, wipin' off the Maybelline

Rainin' on Broadway, lights on the ground now

Got up in his alleyway, set the Harley down now

Polka dot suit on her, Rockabilly clown guy

Polka dot bullet holes, you don't wanna clown now

Crawford kickstand, leanin' like a G does

Clique got the loud pipes, you know that we does

Wind in the trees split, all of them leaves up

Mobbin' like an army, fuck boy freeze up

Yeah, the group comin' in, lookin' for the green buds

Roll it on the table, everybody sees us

Fire up the zigzag, smoke in the air now

Second-hand buzz and the weight it won't leave us

They said be careful what you say

Hot shit, goddamn, motherfucker, I'm dope

Used to be a bad mouth, runnin' 'round the house

Sayin' words that I shouldn't and I got it from my folks

If I got caught, I would end up in my room

Set down 30 minutes with the mouth full of soap

Put it all on paper, go to sleep

Then I wake up with the same bad mouth I was sent to bed fo'

Now I make a livin' sellin' all the bad words to the kids like me

Who would grow to be dope

Used to be a bad mouth, runnin' 'round the house

Sayin' words that I shouldn't and I got it from my folks

If I got caught, I would end up in my room

Set down 30 minutes with the mouth full of soap

Put it all on paper, go to sleep

Then I wake up with the same bad mouth I was sent to bed fo'

Now I make a livin' sellin' all the bad words to the kids like me

Who would grow to be dope

To the bad

Bad mouth lil' shits

Like me

Turn that negativity

To creativity

That's Slumerican

Yeah

Who's gonna be dope?

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
dope /doʊp/ B2	adjective - excellent, very good noun - illegal drugs
run /rʌn/ A1	verb - to move quickly on foot
mouth /maʊθ/ A2	noun - the opening in the lower part of the face
shotgun /ˈʃɒtɡʌn/ B2	noun - a long gun with a smooth bore
target /ˈtɑːrɡɪt/ B1	noun - a thing or person that is being aimed at
cost /kɒst/ A2	noun - the amount of money needed to buy something
slums /slʌmz/ B2	noun - a crowded, run-down area of a city
crime /kraɪm/ B1	noun - an act committed in violation of the law
deck /dek/ B1	noun - a pack of playing cards
alert /əˈlɜːrt/ B2	noun - a state of readiness
soap /soʊp/ A1	noun - a substance used for washing
livin' /ˈlɪvɪn/ A2	noun - a way of life
weight /weɪt/ A2	noun - the force of gravity on an object
dice /daɪs/ A2	noun - a small cube with marked sides
attitude /ˈætɪtjuːd/ B1	noun - a feeling or opinion
sidewalk /ˈsaɪdwɔːk/ A2	noun - a paved path for pedestrians
trash /træʃ/ A1	noun - waste material

Key Grammar Structures

• Catfish Billy mane, harder than a pinecone

  ➔ Comparative adjective

  ➔ The adjective "harder" is used to compare the subject's toughness to that of a pinecone, using the comparative form.

• Hoppin' off an aeroplane, dropped in your time zone

  ➔ Present participle as adverbial of time/manner

  ➔ "Hoppin'" acts as an adverbial phrase describing how the action of being dropped happened (while he was hopping off).

• Fuck all the report cards, bitch, I know that I'm dope

  ➔ Exclamatory sentence with emphasis

  ➔ The use of the word "fuck" at the beginning sets a tone of defiance and emphasizes his disregard for traditional measures of success.

• Coulda been a crime boss, playin' with a full deck

  ➔ Conditional perfect modal verb (Could have + past participle)

  ➔ "Coulda been" is a contraction of "could have been," expressing a hypothetical past possibility that did not happen. It refers to something that the subject *could* have become.

• I don't care about the cost, now the red alert full threat

  ➔ Simple present tense, and noun phrases

  ➔ The use of present tense ("don't care") expresses a current state or habit. Noun phrases are used to describe the red alert.

• Now I make a livin' sellin' all the bad words to the kids like me

  ➔ Present simple for habitual actions and gerund

  ➔ The simple present "make" describes a regular activity. "Sellin'" (gerund) acts as the object of "make a livin'."

• Walkin' on thin ice, got a lot of weight on me

  ➔ Present participle used adjectivally and prepositional phrase

  ➔ "Walkin'" acts as an adjective describing the state of being, and "on thin ice" is a prepositional phrase modifying the action.

• Rainin' on Broadway, lights on the ground now

  ➔ Present participle as part of an adverbial phrase of time/place

  ➔ "Rainin'" describes the action (raining) that occurs at the location (Broadway), forming an adverbial phrase.

• Used to be a bad mouth, runnin' 'round the house

  ➔ Used to + infinitive and present participle as adverbial of manner.

  ➔ "Used to be" expresses a past habit. "Runnin'" describes how the subject used to act, acting as an adverb of manner.