Said I Wouldn't Do It But
This is my favorite song on an intellectual level. Basically, since I began rapping at the age of 17, the things I say in my music that I will never do, I have ended up doing in real life, self prophecy with reverse psychology.
Bradford is a rap artist and has a band called Dong Bei Lao Wai which means Norheastern Foreigner in Chinese. The band was formed in China. Bradford created a brand new genre of music by mixing hiphop rap with Chinese traditional folk music. Dong Bei Lao Wai's first song ever was Nanniwan.
Nanniwan was performed in front of 10 million people on Liaoning Province TV station on the day of the Chinese New Year.
Story behind the song
If someone were to listen to my music and not know when I wrote each and every song, which would be any person other than myself. They would conclude that I don't stick to the same morals as an artist and its almost as if I'm lying because when I started rapping I said that I wouldn't ever do certain things in my rap music and I ended up doing them. For Instance,
-Lyric excerpt from Let My Mouth Run (Bradford's First Album)
"I don't need alcohol or any pot, to make life any better, I know it's not"
Lyrics
Said I wouldn't do it but I did
Can't believe that how it is
Said I wouldn't do it but I did
I'll never get rich from rapping
Every rapper says that he's done stuff that he's never done
Robberies and Murder
People talk the talk
Half these rappers out here try to claim that their Pac
On my block things are a little less stressful and complicated
High School graduated
Hot girls that I've dated
But there are statements that I've stated
I've claimed things in my rhymes that I haven't done at the time
I said I never went to jail
Never drank, never had to worry about bail
I think what I thunk, I stated what I said
I didn't realize in life what was up ahead
I never smoked pot, never snorted rocks
I never got jumped
Or my face shoved with a glock
But look how things change
I got to go back to all of my songs and sort of rearrange
I claimed I'd never chew
I claimed so many things that I thought I'd never do
Shoot....My first raps I wrote
I was a virgin
Never had slit my wrist or dealt with a surgeon
Its a self-fulfilled prophecy
But the prophecy was suppose to keep these problems off of me
But I guess saying them wouldn't of got to me
If I didn't have to be a bad ass
Legal issues and lawyers got me a plea in abance
A couple of hours in hell
Thats when Rose bailed me out of jail
Said I wouldn't do it but I did
Can't believe thats how it is
Said I wouldn't do it but I did
I'll never get rich from rapping
Never hit a woman and I'm feeling guilty
Hit her in her leg intoxicated, do you feel me?
I wrote a song, its called getting better
Talked about leaving men based on whether they hit em or not
If they do, the girl should leave
I hit Rose once and now I wear it on my sleave
And I can't even mention my life story
Without talking about my wrist
And it getting boring
Because my songs sound the same
I mention the same thing so much its embedded in the brain
Of every single fan that I have
People hear my jokes about suicide and don't laugh
And I'm like "Guys I'm over it"
And I'm not and its like
Everyone seem to notice it
And if I could take this insanity and focus it
Maybe I could swallow my pride and not choke on it
Cause I said I would never do coke
Cause I said I would never go broke
And I said I would never leave Rose
I said I would never freeze like I froze
I jumped out the front seat
Sliding on my jeans in the concrete
Diesel truck could run me over and I'd be dead
And my mom was driving at the sime
And every thing that I say will never happen happens
So I say I'll never get rich from rapping
Said I wouldn't do it but I did
Can't believe thats how it is
Said I wouldn't do it but I did
I'll never get rich from rapping
Cocaine...snort it up with my snot and
Hanging out with people that are rotten
Xanax has made me forgotten
How me and Eldon Lot got in
So much trouble in China
Drinking till I felt like dying
All alone cold in a bed
Felt like I could never get ahead
And I'm fed up with thinking I'm above
And psychologist that tell me I didn't get enough love
Whats with that?
I don't need a dad, but I got Steve I'm glad
Cause how bad would I be without a surrogate dad see
I'd be screwed, I don't mean to say screwed I mean Jewed
And I guess I'm still not being PC
But giving a crap is so old its B.C. for me
But I still care about people around me
