Drake Know Yourself
Hol' it yute, hol' it, hol' it, hol' it, hol' it, hol' it No sleepin' in the streets! Shaky warrior Yeah, this that Oliver, 40, Niko shit man 15 Fort York shit, y'know? Boi-1da, what's poppin'? Yeah, yeah Runnin' through the 6 with my woes Countin' money, you know how it goes Pray the real live forever, man Pray the fakes get exposed I want that Ferrari, then I swerve I want that Bugatti, just to hurt I ain't rockin' my jewelry, that's on purpose Niggas want my spot and don't deserve it I don't like how serious they take themselves I've always been me, I guess I know myself Shakiness, man, I don't have no time for that My city too turned up, I'll take the fine for that This been where you find me at That's been where you find me at I know a nigga named Johnny Bling He put me on to the finer things Had a job sellin' Girbaud jeans I had a yellow TechnoMarine Then Kanye dropped, it was polos and backpacks Man, that was when Ethan was pushin' a Subaru hatchback Man, I'm talkin' way before hashtags I was runnin' through the 6 with my woes (Yeah!) I was runnin' through the 6 with my woes You know how that shit go You know how that shit go You know how that shit go Runnin' through the 6 with my woes You know how that shit go You know how that shit go You know how that shit go Don't fuck with them niggas, they too irrational, whoa This is that nasty flow Top boy in this shit, I'm so international Reps up is in here Got P Reign and Chubby and TJ and Winnie and whoa Yeah, and you know how that shit go I might declare it a holiday as soon as Baka get back on the road Yeah, but you know how that shit go They so irrational, they don't wanna patch it up They wanna mash it up, whoa My nigga Jibba, he whip it, I ride in the passenger I'm way up, I stay up, I'm two up, I'm three up I had to get back to you, whoa I'm turnin' into a nigga that thinks about money and women Like 24/7, that's where my life took me That's just how shit happened to go And you know Runnin' through the 6 with my, with my I was running through the 6 with my woes And you know how that shit go You know how that shit go You know how that shit go Runnin' through the 6 with my woes You know how that shit go You know how that shit go You know how that shit go Runnin' through the 6 with my woes You know how that shit go Shell out, all if yuh eye nuh big Always haffi look out, yuh no know if yuh head book out Dun know, a the Unruly boss, dis man No bomboclat, other And if a boy nuh like OVO or Chromatic Yuh can just suck yuh mada! With no apology, if you nuh like we, we nuh like you neither youth Your girl a say we cute, if you diss you will get execute That's the truth, OVO Unruly (Machine gun shots) With my woes
Drake first used the phrase “know yourself” in “Jodeci Freestyle” – a single released in the lead-up to his album Nothing Was The Same. On the album, the phrase is also referenced in “From Time,” during a monologue by Baka. Over time Drake has made the line a recurring theme in songs such as “0 to 100.”