Know Yourself – English Lyrics

• By: Drake
• Album: If You're Reading This It's Too Late

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into Drake's "Know Yourself" and explore the vibrant slang and cultural references that define Toronto's hip-hop scene. This track offers a unique window into the artist's roots, his definition of loyalty with terms like "woes," and the powerful sense of local identity that makes his music resonate globally. Learning the language of this song means understanding not just lyrics, but a whole city's spirit.

[English]

Hol' it yute, hol' it, hol' it, hol' it, hol' it, hol' it

No sleepin' in the streets

Shaky warrior

Yeah, this that Oliver, 40, Niko shit man

15 Fort York shit, y'know?

Boi-1da, what's poppin'?

Yeah, yeah

...

Runnin' through the 6 with my woes

Countin' money, you know how it goes

Pray the real live forever, man

Pray the fakes get exposed

I want that Ferrari, then I swerve

I want that Bugatti, just to hurt

I ain't rockin' my jewelry, that's on purpose

Niggas want my spot and don't deserve it

I don't like how serious they take themselves

I've always been me, I guess I know myself

Shakiness, man, I don't have no time for that

My city too turnt up, I'll take the fine for that

This been where you find me at

That's been where you find me at

I know a nigga named Johnny Bling

He put me on to the finer things

Had a job sellin' Girbaud jeans

I had a yellow TechnoMarine

Then Kanye dropped, it was polos and backpacks, man

That was when Ethan was pushin' a Subaru hatchback

Man, I'm talkin' way before hashtags

I was runnin' through the 6 with my woes

(Yeah!)

I was runnin' through the 6 with my woes

You know how that should go

You know how that should go

You know how that should go

Runnin' through the 6 with my woes

You know how that should go

You know how that should go

You know how that should go

Don't fuck with them niggas, they too irrational, woah

This is that nasty flow

Top boy in this shit, I'm so international

Reps up is in here

Got P Reign and Chubby and TJ and Winnie and whoa

Yeah, and you know how that should go

I might declare it a holiday as soon as Baka get back on the road

Yeah, but you know how that should go

They so irrational, they don't wanna patch it up

They wanna mash it up, woah

My nigga Jibba, he whip it, I ride in the passenger

I'm way up, I stay up, I'm two up, I'm three up

I had to get back to you, woah

I'm turnin' into a nigga that thinks about money and women

Like 24/7, that's where my life took me

That's just how shit happened to go

And you know

Runnin' through the 6 with my, with my-

With my

I was running through the 6 with my woes

And you know how that should go

You know how that should go

You know how that should go

Runnin' through the 6 with my woes

You know how that should go

You know how that should go

You know how that should go

Runnin' through the 6 with my woes

You know how that should go

Shell out, all if yuh eye nuh big

...

Always haffi look out, yuh no know if yuh head book out

Dun know, a de Unruly boss, dis man

No bomboclat, otha

And if a boy nuh like OVO or Chromatic

Yuh can jus suck yuh mada!

With no apology, if you nuh like we, we nuh like you neither youth

Your girl a say we cute, if you diss you will get execute

That's the truth, OVO Unruly

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With my woes

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