Cover art for Effed Up by Gift of Gab
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Effed Up Lyrics

[Chorus]
It's effed up, when a girl treats you bad
And later on, you find out she's doin bad
And deep down inside that makes you feel glad
It's effed up, and I don't wanna be like that
It's effed up, and I don't wanna be like that
It's effed up, and I don't wanna be like that

[Gift of Gab]
Yo, met a fly girl by the name of Kay
Baby girl was sharper than a razor blade
Pushed up and I made my way (hey)
Hit it off great, started dating Kay
Yo, she didn't really even make me wait
Put me in a lovely kind of sacred state
Thinkin of a wedding and a cake to bake
Suddenly, it started goin wrong...
She started coming home more late and late
I was chillin at the bar to make a great escape
Seen her posted up with the homie Blake, no way!
Furious, I started goin ape at Kay
Told me that I just had to take the ache
Left me standin ther with my face disgraced
Took a while to get over the case with Kay
But you know a bro gotta move on, on
Months later to the date, seen Kay
She had gained a massive ton of weight today
She told me what she did was a great mistake
Loneliness, depression was the state she at'
Told her, "Everything would be okay, just stay
Positive and things would be okay" But hey
Funny as I walked a-wah away from Kay
Inside my head I heard this little song
It went...
[Chorus]

[Gift of Gab]
Knew a golddigger by the name of Pam
Used to tell me that I was her favorite man
Travel with her everywhere, LA to France
Europe and Brazil, all the way to Japan
I said it's nuttin~! I'm a money makin man
Showered her with gear all of her favorite brands
Took her to the club so she could shake her ass
Suddenly, it started goin wrong...
Scuffled at the job, had to take a stance
Fired on the spot, tough break my man!
Called up with my problems to relate to Pam
All I heard was click and then a tone
She told me I could go ahead and take my damn
Self and go another place somewhere, just scram!
It took a while to get over the case with Pam
But I gotta keep pursuin money...
Months later and my papers stacked
One day just strollin around the way, seen Pam
She looked like she was livin in a paper bag
All alone and pregnant, all her days went bad
Goin crazy, losin mental space real fast!
She pulled a stogie out so she could take a drag!
Gave her a dollar as I walked away from Pam
Inside my head I heard the little song...
[Chorus]

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Genius Annotation

This is the 8th track off Gift Of Gab’s The Next Logical Progression album.

It talks about the situations when a girl treats you bad and ruins your relation but ultimately she’s the one who ends up in a bad context, in the long run.

This song has not only an impressive rhyme scheme as most Gift Of Gab’s song but keeps the same multisyllabic rhymes for the whole verses (“-ay -uh -ay” for the first one, “-ay -uh -en” for the second one, keeping the first 2 syllables of this 3-syllables-long compound rhyme the same too) alternating them with an “-oh” rhyme every 8 bars.

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  1. 1.
    NLP
  2. 3.
    Rise
  3. 6.
    Toxic (Missing Lyrics)
  4. 7.
    Wack but Good People (Missing Lyrics)
  5. 8.
    Effed Up
  6. 11.
    So so Much (Missing Lyrics)
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Release Date
March 27, 2012
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