Before the Verse

Intro

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Yeah

Uh huh

Verse 1

First girl that ever called me by my whole name

Said it slow like a prayer she was making

I was broke then rapping on a basement floor

She ain't ask what I drove she asked what I'm for

Wrote her name on a receipt that I never spent

Told my man that's the one that my future sent

Mama said slow down boy you move too fast

But a broke dreamer don't know how to make it last

Chorus

She like Sophia cuz she my first

She like Sophia cuz she my first

Before the check before the verse

She like Sophia cuz she my first

Post-Chorus

(First first)

Cuz she my first

(First first)

Yeah she my first

Verse 2

Second girl came around when the money moved

Wanted dinner reservations and a mountain view

She ain't never know my sister never met my mom

She just liked the way the cameras made me calm

So I started writing names down in a little book

Who was there when I was hungry who was there when I cooked

Nobody in the room when I was sleeping on the couch

Everybody in the room when I bought the whole house

Pre-Chorus

So tell me who is real

Tell me who was there

When the whole thing was steel

And I had nothing left to share

Chorus

She like Sophia cuz she my first

She like Sophia cuz she my first

Before the check before the verse

She like Sophia cuz she my first

Drop

She my first she my first

She my first she my first

Bridge

I keep a list of the people who believed

Wrote it in a notebook that nobody reads

Every name in there got a promise attached

Every name in there is a door I never latched

Verse 3

Now I'm sitting in a room with a gold on the wall

Thinking how a single name can outlast it all

They can take the plaques and the magazine covers

But they can't take the girl that I knew before the others

So I hold that name like a stone in my palm

Keep it quiet keep it steady keep it going keep it calm

Cuz the loudest thing I ever did was stay the same

When the whole world started screaming out my name

Chorus

She like Sophia cuz she my first

She like Sophia cuz she my first

Before the check before the verse

She like Sophia cuz she my first

Post-Chorus

(First first)

Cuz she my first

(First first)

Yeah she my first