Cover art for You Can’t Touch Me by Royce da 5'9"

You Can’t Touch Me

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Apr. 26, 20001 viewer

You Can’t Touch Me Lyrics

[Verse 1]
T-M-Royce 5
Pause
Listen to why girls drop they drawls
A lot of 'em they wanna get involved
Well why you still holdin up the wall
Allow me to introduce myself
My name is Royce Five Nine
Sick Sick Emcee
Here to filter the game
To let clips empty
Trackmaster sound now who's to blame
'Bout to slap rappers around and bruise the game
O.k, jump (jump)
If you want the respect then come (come)
Get it from a nigga that'll merk you
Or tattoo ya name on my arm
Like you one of my dead homies, just to beat the case

Believe me, I'mma lead the race
What is my game?
Wakin up next to chicks like "What is your name?"
Hustlers big, Mustlers big
Niggas better raise they wig
Cause

[Hook]
My Deal, My flow, My Song
{Ladies move like you just don't care)
This is Royce Five Nine, My streets, So Please
(Everybody Throw ya hands in the air, Cause)
We live forever (Wha)
We won't go Never (Wha)
We won't go broke never, cause
You can't touch me
[Verse 2]
O.k Look
A lot of people take me for a crook
Like my careers been depicted from a book
Nothing but hardcore here
Read "The Source", head of my class for all four years
Did I really fall out with Eminem
(Chicka) No!
Did I really get dropped from "Tommy Boy"
(Chicka) No!
Nigga please, I use more tools than "Black and Decker"
Wrote songs for niggas for classic records
Grimey! If you choose to live by the gun, young one, with hits
Five nine is my height
If I was ever to grow, tell y'all a lil' secret
Nobody got to know

Diss me, you don't want to back and forth
Ya jewelery look like that shit they sell in the back of The Source
So come how you come, you could just see me
Cause I do what I do, Like I'm doin for T.V
Cause

[Hook]
My Deal, My flow, My Song
{Ladies move like you just don't care)
You know this is Royce Five Nine, My streets, So Please
(Everybody Throw ya hands in the air, Cause)
We live forever (Wha)
We Won't go Never (Wha)
We won't do whatever, cause
You can't touch me
[Bridge: Christina Milan]
So you wanna see me shake my ass?
Tell me Royce what would you do for this?
So you wanna get it Right Now
Well you can't touch me, you can't touch me
I'm feelin High tonight
Let's ride with Royce 5'9
Tell you just one more time
You can't touch me, you can't touch me

[Verse 3]
Bounce (bounce)
If you wanna know what's the amount
Come to me for the pounds not the ounce
I react Trickey on people
I'm mild-mannered but I slap hickey's on people
Black King, Freiyon felt
Attract queens, Ice cold, plus hot, Rap "Leon Phelps"
Oh! Where the money at, show me the dough
Dummies, I'll show you the dough
Cause
My Dough, my flow, my shit, my song, my
Notice I like sayin My
And, notice I like me a Light-skinned Ma
All curvey, that's somethin you can't deny
First singles about me
Second singles about my city
The third is about my son
Three things that's important to me
I gotta be rich, cause being broke is somethin I can't afford to be
Ladies in the club like Whoa! (Whoa)
Turn a nigga down like Oh! (no!)
We open up they mind like yo (yo)
Cause, you can't touch me
[Hook]

Ladies in the club like Whoa! (Whoa)
Turn a nigga down like Oh! (no!)
We open up they mind like yo (yo)
Cause, you can't touch me

[Hook till fade]

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What did Royce da 5'9" say about "You Can't Touch Me"?
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Royce da 5'9" via Complex:

I knew I wanted to get in the lab with Trackmasters because when I first went to Sony, my first meeting with them was with Tone from Trackmasters. Tone had some sort of position over there and he was the one that originally wanted to sign me. Before we could close the deal, something happened where he might have left or something like that. But I still wanted to work with Tone and Poke as producers.

We set up a session and we went to a crib in Jersey where their studio was. I heard the beat and they were saying that Jadakiss had the beat too. I remember thinking, ‘Okay, I have to hurry up and record this before Jadakiss gets to it. If Jadakiss gets to it, he can probably get a record out a little sooner than me. So I’m going to hurry up and get this done.’ I went and did the verses in Detroit.

I think I had a hook on there, but Tone ended up changing the hook. He had the girl come in and sing the hook, which was better than what I had originally came up with. That was pretty much it. We mixed it and he let Kiss know I had it. I actually talked to Kiss about that beat and he said, ‘Yo man, I had that beat too, but you killed it.’ He showed me a lot of love on that. That’s actually how I met Jadakiss.

That song connected. It was my biggest radio song, it got the most spins of anything I ever put out. The only record that’s probably getting more spins on the radio than that is ‘Fast Lane.’ Things are different today anyway. That record it really connected with radio, even though I don’t perform it no more.

That’s what happens when you’re young and you sign with a label that’s known for radio. If you sign to Sony, that was like the radio machine at the time so you had to give them a radio record in order to get a release. That was just me being young and conforming.

I don’t go to the studio with that mind frame anymore. I don’t even know the fucking lyrics to that song. If you asked me to spit 12 of those bars right now, I would not be able to do it for you.”

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April 26, 2000
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