E-40 - Don't Shoot The Messenger Lyrics






I got love for real dudes good brothas don't respect suckas
What want for myself I want for others
I had holes in socks and my draws growin up stressin
Didn't have a lot of money and material possessions
Pop warner and little league pitched played out field
Had a valet times hill and paper route to help pay the bills
My hood is a battlefield lots of talent a skill
Women smart enough to be journalists like federico winfield
We hollow broke we or got the latest iphone
A zap it or choke in the lebron zone
Can't remember your sat but to every e40 song
You can recite every lyric and rap along
We living in different day such challenging times
Financial binds, senselessness crimes
I was talkin to my og he did 20 for real
He said if I had some bread I wouldn't put none of these niggas in my will
Because they turn like a steering wheel and forget you when you in jail
They didn't write me or nothin no commissary no mail
That's what he said to me so I pulled out a g
Even though he used to run with my uncle I was just 3
Years old with a snotty nose and observing him being nosey
Soaking up game and ear husslin while they trade war stories
Thugin and bustin, death and destruction
Chaos and catastrophe, triump and tragedy

Don't shoot him
Don't shoot the messenger
Don't shoot him
Don't shoot the messenger
Don't shoot him
Don't shoot the messenger
Don't shoot him
Don't shoot the messenger

I don't come from money I come from fried baloney
Starvin and thirsty eb key cards pop a murphy
Lord have mercy it's brutal and murky out here on the ave
Where the mail man's scared to come in you can't catch a cab
Me and my partnas be gettin together drinkin, smokin herb
Talkin bout reincarnation comin back as a bird
I was channel surfing watchin the word network cause I get inspired
When I here the ministry of joyce myers I use my rushcard to order her tapes
Or should I say dvds her's and tb jakes
Is it any good people left on this earth that show pity
That will do anything for their relatives give up a kidney
But would their relatives do the same for them I don't know
You'll be surprised how selfish people can be even kin folk
I can't imagine me goin to hell the devil's a liar
What you wanna be I wanna be one of God's angels when I die
The pearly gates not the underworld in the afterlife
At the end of the tunnel will there be light
Will the sky be purple, will the grass be blue
Will I recognise my family will they know me too
Living on this earth is a test behold
When God call we can't put in on hold
I'm just the writer not the editor
Here go my letter don't shoot the messenger

Don't shoot him
Don't shoot the messenger
Don't shoot him
Don't shoot the messenger
Don't shoot him
Don't shoot the messenger
Don't shoot him
Don't shoot the messenger

Hey I like to say to ugh all the industry people out there to that ugh
Has control of what we call hiphop, like for people to put more of an effort for hiphop to be what it was instead of the culture of violence that it is right now you know there's a lot of things going you know what I mean
There's a lot of people that put in a lot of time, you the break dancers
The graffiti artist, people rappin all over the world
And I think it means a lot, I mean it means a lot to people like me that for all my life I've been in hiphop
And it should more than just somebody standin on the side a the road selling dope
I mean that may or may not have it's place too because it's there
But I'm just sayin I ain't neva shot nobody, I ain't neva stab nobody
I'm 45 years old and I ain't I ain't got no criminal record you know what I mean the only thing I've ever done is care about my music
So I mean so while we teaching people what it is about life in the ghetto
Then we should be teaching people what life is in the ghetto me tryna grown up
And come up out of the ghetto and we need everybody's help out there to make it happen
Hiphop needs to grow up and I'm a grown man I'm a be doin hiphop all my life
I need somebody's help to help me do it. So let's get this thing done





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  1. n.... ....

    Loud ass scretching sound somebody fucking up the beats the 1 that added that needs shot

  2. M.... P....

    Sloppy Joes and 29 cent Mcdonalds

  3. G.... F....

    Real ni65bc worldwide 2019

  4. T.... L....

    The messeger is one important messager!

  5. J.... L....

    I love this song

  6. R.... L....

    I'ma savage

  7. C.... E....

    40 speak on the real shit mane

  8. J.... M....

    I fucking HATE rap
    but E4 da shit.
    Capital save a Ho

  9. K.... S....

    Never made a mixtape in his life

  10. R.... G....

    I really feel like the message E40 is saying its like a battlefield in the hood that the people also go to jail or prison for there wrong doing because life is too short

  11. R.... N....

    Financial vinds, for the binds in this economy.

  12. W.... D....

    he sick but no PAC

    W.... D....

    William Derosa

    W.... D....

    No one is Pac except Pac. But this is a great message from 40.

    W.... D....

    Ur trippin e40 has so much music and nun of it is bullshit all real

    W.... D....

    They was HOMIES

  13. J.... H....

    d whoop facts

  14. V.... ....

    REAL FOR REAL SALUTE

    V.... ....

    VThaVillan

  15. L.... N....

    lol this song is stupid

    L.... N....

    Leo Nebula bitch this shit slap🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 FOH what you smokin

    L.... N....

    You don't get the message of the song or your too young/immature to understand

    L.... N....

    You're stupid. You don't even know what he's talking about nigga.

  16. D.... A....

    E40 Blessed by the game Brought me here.

  17. T.... G....

    Who else came here for BLM?

  18. K.... T....

    LISTEN TO THE KNOWLEDGE ON THIS SONG WAKE UP STOP LISTENING TO THE ILLUMINATI MOTHAFUCKAS THEY BLINDING YOU FROM THE FACTS LIKE SELLING DOPE IS COO NIGGA NOPE WRONG CAUSE THE JUDGE HANDING OUT FAT TIME NUMBERS LIKE A PHAT BITCH WEIGHT

    K.... T....

    KINGCEL Da MAC

  19. J.... H....

    bay area boss

    J.... H....

    Jovanta Hollis

  20. F.... C....

    that what up!!

  21. #.... D....

    The apostle Paul was the Churches messenger and he spent a lot of time in Prison. Good song it cost to serve the Boss

  22. P.... H....

    my nigga

  23. M.... W....

    white ppl dont know about this shit

    M.... W....

    +Austin Biancalana lol

    M.... W....

    alyssia rice i love you

    M.... W....

    Mark White you dont know shit actin like you know people when in reality you dont know shit go back to school you should of necer dropped out

    M.... W....

    Mark White music dont have colors anybody can listen to what they like it wasnt made just for you dumbass

    M.... W....

    @Mark White Your dumb nigga

  24. R.... G....

    i feel like what hes saying is a brilliant way of him saying dont shoot the messenger is cause he is dont shoot the ones that are positive

    R.... G....

    what???

    R.... G....

    +Miguel Garcia i here you

    R.... G....

    Deez nutz

  25. K.... D....

    This shyt go...

  26. F.... S....

    One of the best that ever done it... Stays consistent..

  27. J.... R....

    something I can Relate too
    .. Damn 40 water Go

  28. w.... ....

    Great messages.

  29. m.... J....

    Love ur music

  30. J.... A....

    Vengence is his...

  31. F.... a....

    Damn my dude went in ... Some real talk feel ya all the way on the other side bra .. South Florida

    F.... a....

    Get a few months

  32. K.... B....

    NIGGA THIS SHIT HARD AF

    K.... B....

    Man this slap

    K.... B....

    Khalile Brown

  33. G.... e....

    This shit wack.

    G.... e....

    u wack this slappz

    G.... e....

    @***** real shit 

    G.... e....

    oh this is real shit alright!

    G.... e....

    ceelm this shit is real rap bro gtfoh with that shit why you listening to it then

  34. D.... S....

    Mac Dre don't give a fuck about a messenger

    D.... S....

    +Keiron Bomont really tho if only pac n biggie n dre was alive SMH

    D.... S....

    Keiron Bomont the nigga was talking about a mac dre song "fa ma niggaz,, fucking dumb bitch

  35. A.... J....

    E foe oh keep dat slap!

  36. J.... A....

    For those who are not in a hood this song talks about life in the hood real shit my niggas

  37. D.... W....

    E-40 one of the last remaining few real niggaz left in this rap game.

  38. E.... T....

    RealTalk!Amen

  39. L.... C....

    always keep it real no matter what

  40. L.... C....

    fuck them phony homies or a fair wheather friend

  41. S.... T....

    The realest

  42. A.... ....

    Got that number 6 gotta get the rest of the series but this album is dope

  43. A.... M....

    Still got it brah

  44. J.... W....

    One of da realist out of top 5

  45. t.... ....

    I've been a hip hop fan for years and real recognize real 40 put Melly Mell on the end of this song because of the song The Message. That shit gave me chills 40 for President

    t.... ....

    yea the message is real in this song he speaking some real stuff man and yea part of the beat made it kinda creepy tho but shit still dope

  46. M.... ....

    He talking about 2pacs messenger. search (2pacs messenger). I just heard the whole album. Dont shoot the messenger. I think 40 talkin to people like jayz and weezie kuz 2pacs messeengers was on they head. I dat song (where my thugs at).

  47. B.... M....

    Could be better

  48. J.... A....

    Nice intro big-E!

  49. L.... M....

    Love it!! So real

  50. M.... B....

    story of my life ... salute to e-40

  51. C.... Y....

    this slap cant belive only 9,000 views

    C.... Y....

    People dont no music at allllllllllllllllllllllllll

  52. B.... D....

    CLASSIC 40

  53. t.... ....

    who is speaking at the end of the song

    t.... ....

    Its Mac Dre

  54. t.... b....

    Fan 4 lofe
    Since i came out my momma p hole

  55. 8.... ....

    I bee a E40 fan since 94 always go n the heart real nigga!

  56. r.... n....

    4OS A FOOL 4 THIS!