Sorry Lyrics

[Chorus: Stacy Barthe]
What should I be sorry for?
Who should I be sorry to?
What should I be sorry for?
Who should I be sorry to?
The fact is you can't please everybody
You can't please everybody

What should I be sorry for?
Who should I be sorry to?

[Verse 2: T.I.]
I grew up in the gutter, life a motherfucker
I guess that's why I don't trust a motherfucker
Seen a nigga snitch on they mom, shoot at his brother
Go to prison, in love with a bitch, and a nigga fuck her
I seen real Gs destroyed by real suckers
Innocent ladies raped and defenseless babies abducted
Such a horrible truth, but you see it over and over
It's nothing; you numb to it, and your heart grow colder
Pacify your pain with a chain and a Rover

Fuck it; justify your action with stacking your dough up
He show up with a brick of cocaine and baking soda
Just enough for me to blow up; nigga, hold up

Switch the flow up, 'cause these niggas be snitching so much
I promise all they missing's a badge, coffee, and donut

Go to jail—so what? Never see my integrity perish
That ain't the Harris' way, study my pedigree
Promise I'm one of the only ones who keep it a hundred
Prol'ly why I think they all out to get me, you can't convince me
Large money and fame will plant seeds of envy
To make my partners resent me enough to come and get me
Catch me slipping and hit me just like they did 50
'Cause I'm in the position that he think he should be given
Listen, dawg, the fact of the matter is
I'm on a narrow path and we all can't travel

[Chorus: Stacy Barthe]
What should I be sorry for?
Who should I be sorry to?
What should I be sorry for?
Who should I be sorry to?
The fact is you can't please everybody
You can't please everybody

What should I be sorry for?
Who should I be sorry to?

[Verse 3: André 3000]
What it ain't? What it is?
Even if you gotta live

I learned that apartment's way more exciting
Than a big-ass house on a hill

I used to be a way better writer and a rapper
When I used to want a black Karmann Ghia (Woo!)

Now a nigga speeding in a Porsche (Ahh)
Feeling like I'm going off a course (Ahh)
Cut these fuck niggas off

Negative in my life, scream that 'til I'm hoarse (Woo)
Duck these, get the fuck off me, projectiles
Bitch, he ain't really got a choice (Mmm)
I'm living my life live yours (Ahh)
I don't even like rapping fast (Ahh)
But that's how the world come to me

Talk to me sideways, nigga, that's your ass
Slow it down
This that shit that'll make you call your mama
Say, "Hey, I'm sorry for begging
For all them clothes you couldn't afford"

And this the type of shit that'll make you call your rap partner
And say, "I'm sorry I'm awkward, my fault for fuckin' up the tours"
I hated all the attention so I ran from it (I ran from it)

Fuck it if we did
But I hope we ain't lose no fans from it (No fans from it)

I'm a grown-ass kid, you know
I ain't never cared about no damn money

Why do we try so hard to be stars just to dodge comments?
And this that shit that'll make you call your baby mama
When you gone on half a pill
Don't know why, but that's how it is

Then you take a flight back to the crib
Y'all make love like college kids
And you say all the shit you gon' do better
We can try this shit again
'Round the time the dope wear off
You feel stupid, she feel lost

That's that dopamine, I mean dope—
I mean, you think Cupid done worn off

Waiting in the hallway with her arms crossed
Baby boy face full of applesauce

Maybe should have stayed but it ain't yo fault
Too much pressure, I peel off, I'm sorry
Was young and had to choose between you
And what the rest of the world might offer me
Shit, what would you do? (I was 21)

Well, I'd prob'ly do it differently if second the chance
Only if some cool-ass older man
Would've let me know in advance

There's this quarry that is dug so deep in a father's chest
When he feel that he's broken up his nest
And he figures, shit—he was just doing the best that he could
Which end up being the worst that he could

And all some pussy nigga on the Internet can say
Is, "That verse ain't good"

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Genius Annotation

T.I. connects with Andre 3000 on the sixth track off his eighth studio album, the first to be released after T.I. served his 11 month prison sentence. It features production from Jazze Pha, Sir Clef, and Po Johns, with vocals from Stacy Barthe on the chorus.

Q&A

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What did T.I. say about "Sorry"?
Verified Commentary
André 3000
via Fuse
Genius Answer

Me and T.I. been tryna do a song for a long, long time. [It never eventuated because] for me it’s always about the actual song or the project, I never just say “I’m gonna do something” just to do it. So I went to the studio and checked out some music and as soon as that song came on, and his lyrics came on, you know, it kinda hit home for me, and I was like “Hey, this song I wanna be a part”.

[T.I.’s been saying I ‘shitted on his record’]. I know what he means by that, and I talked with T.I. the other day, I said, “Man, please stop sayin' that, man, because that is not true.” The term ‘shitting on me on my own record’ is basically when you outdo someone on their own record. Now I would will sit up and say it if I felt like it did, [but] that wasn’t the case. I think he was excited that we’re on a song together. But I can tell you, and I told him the same thing, “I wouldn’t’ve wrote that verse if I hadn’t have heard your verse”, because of what he was talking about, about responsibility, and taking responsibility for your kid and all this kind of stuff. So I wouldn’t have written the verse that’s on there now if it wasn’t for T.I..

Who is singing “Sorry”'s chorus?
Genius Answer

Stacy Barthe. She is dope. She works with John Legend and other magnificent artists. She has a awesome pen game and her vocal range is stupid. After she did it, wrote it, me and Andre both agreed we ain’t gonna find nobody to do it as good or better than her so we let her lay down her own lines.

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