Gossip Lyrics

[Refrain]
Think it over
Ooooh, think it over
Think it over, baby baby (Get 'em)

[Verse 2]
Stop! Analyzing, criticizing
You should realize what I am and start epitomizing

Legitimate, I got the heart of the biggest lion
I'm confident, like fuck 'em all, pull out my dick and ride it
My flow sick, so sick, it's like my shit is dying
It rains a lot in my city because my city's crying
Because my city's dying

Still I emerge from all of that, I am a living pion–eer, near Zion
Fear God, not them, steer my robin coupe
Through the streets of the Boot
, and soo-woo!
And then I leak blood in the booth, I leave a bloodbath
Sorry, there's a tub in the booth, now where the drugs at?

I'm twisted like the strings on a shoe, no, nigga, fuck that
I'm twisted like the strings on a boot, now where New Orleans at?

I feel hip-hop stole me like a bus pass
So in your possession, I-I-I must ask

[Refrain]
Hey, haven't I been good to you?
(Think it over) Tell me, haven't I been sweet to you?

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Genius Annotation

Track from Wayne’s 2007 EP The Leak.

Weezy premiered this song live at the 2007 BET Hip-Hop Awards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5wXu27kB8U

Q&A

Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning

What has StreetRunner said about the song?
Verified Commentary
STREETRUNNER
via DJ Booth
Genius Answer

First of all, probably one of the most incredible samples ever: Margie Joseph’s ‘Stop In the Name of Love.’ I’ve sampled it a good three to four times myself. I basically took small pieces that nobody’s really messed with before. If you have the vinyl of that song, the interlude before the actual ‘Stop In the Name of Love’ is where I got all the talking skits from. There was a little sample issue there because I only cleared Margie Joseph’s ‘Stop In the Name of Love’ and didn’t realize [the interlude and the song] are two separate pieces of work. They sound like one song on the album.

I basically chopped that up on the MPC 2000XL. I remember real hectic, small, two-second chops that I fired up. I think I split it up between four to eight pads and then I would blaze that sound through the track, through the verse. You can’t really hear it as good on the mixed version ’cause, I’ll be honest with you, that song wasn’t really mixed the way the original two-track was. If you listen to the BET Awards version, Wayne used my two-track. It’s just got a very high-energy sound to it. The mix kinda lost that.

I used some brass keys that I actually sampled into the 2000XL. Heart monitor, kicks, drums, snares, tom rolls, 808s; my typical MPC beat during that era [laughs].

Back then, when I would work with Wayne, he would hear the beat and work his lyrics into what the sample is telling him to do. For example, ‘Let’s Talk It Over,’ ‘1 Night Only,’ ‘Trouble,’ ‘Do It Again’—all of these beats had samples and he knew, ‘Alright, StreetRunner came with the beat and the topic.’ Exactly how the [‘Gossip’] beat is, is exactly how I gave it to him. He was able to twist up the concept I had with the sample and make it into a song about what he means to hip-hop. That’s why that record was so crazy.

The songs that I talked about—‘Trouble,’ ‘1 Night Only’—those all leaked. Those were Carter III contenders. Like, they were on Tha Carter III tracklisting at one point. But the ‘Gossip’ record never leaked and I couldn’t understand why. I think it was September or November of ’07, I was in the studio with Mack Maine, Tez [Bryant] and Gee Roberson. I was like, ‘Yo, thank God “Gossip” hasn’t leaked yet. That song is fire.’ And they were like, ‘"Gossip"? What are you talking about?’

Luckily, the engineer was there and he had Wayne’s hard drive. When he was going through it, we realized that ‘Gossip’ was never bounced. You know how the artist would take a bounce of the copy? That song was recorded in December ’06 and forgotten about. Literally, the engineer even said, ‘No wonder it hasn’t leaked; the session hasn’t been opened since December 2006.’ He literally had to open the original session up for Tez, Gee and Mack Maine to hear it.

That right there sparked the whole flame for like, ‘Yo, this is going to be huge. We’re going to mix this, master this and Wayne’s going to perform it at the BET Awards.’ He did it, and that December it dropped on The Leak EP, and it was later attached to the deluxe edition of Tha Carter III. Someone got to make some moves, man, without getting leaked! [Laughs] I was losing so much music to those damn leaks. It was hot music, too!

I think at one point, [‘Gossip’] was considered the lead-off street single for [Tha Carter III]. The thing is, between Cash Money, Tez and Universal, they all knew they had a monster in Wayne and they knew that this whole project was a monster. They never knew exactly the right way to approach it, though. It ended up going off fine, but they would constantly change their mind. Like, the tracklisting for the album would change every week. Eventually, they were like, ‘Yo, let’s just throw a bunch more songs with this and call it an EP.’ It didn’t bother me; I wanted something actually out there that was real content, as opposed to just being on a mixtape.

The [BET Awards performance] was amazing because people look back and probably don’t even realize this, but everybody who’s standing there watching it live in the audience, that’s the first time they’re hearing that song. It wasn’t like Wayne leaked it the week before; it was an exclusive. You’ll see people standing up in the audience like, ‘What the fuck is happening right now?!’ Not for nothing, Wayne ripped that shit down. I’m at the crib watching it on BET and I’m like, ‘Yo, this shit is fucking epic!’ Just watching certain peoples’ faces and shit [laughs].

As a producer, that was probably the best time to work with Wayne. He was really in his bag with his rhymes and was into very dope beats. There wasn’t a lot of people in the studio with him at that time either. You’d go check Wayne and it’d be him and the engineer, and maybe like one of his homies like Mack Maine. Tha Carter I and Tha Carter II Wayne was dope as fuck, but the ultra fame and success wasn’t there yet. Going into Tha Carter III, he was still trying to craft his sound and kill shit. It was very dope to be able to witness that.”

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