Trina - Paradise lyrics

Flight three O five to Miami is now boarding (Slip N Slide collabo) I will always be the one to bring you back, bring you back, oh Ooh (Miami) Paradise (welcome to paradise ladies) You better think twice 'Cause it's not very nice (let's go) Ooh (Miami) Paradise You better think twice 'Cause it's not very nice Well alright It seem like the broke days was the better days When your whole neighborhood was HUD housing and Section Eight I was just in the seventh grade When I made up my mind, my dream car was a Seven Tre Wanted a donk, I was still at the bus stop That was around the time Trick Thugs R Us dropped Three O five on a baseball cap Used to peanut bu*ter jelly with the baseball bat Realest k**ers on the block still jookin' and stickin' And everybody used to rock Reeboks with Dickies And my aunties was getting loose to Uncle Luke My uncle then was selling dope and smoking boonk That was way before the mollys came through And way way after Hurricane Andrew And way before the flakka feigns and skinny jeans That real Miami life, it was paradise Ooh (Miami) Paradise You better think twice 'Cause it's not very nice Ooh (Miami) Paradise You better think twice (uh huh, uh huh) 'Cause it's not very nice (uh huh, yeah) Trina, reporting live from Liberty City We in the heart of Miami, the nitty and gritty See I was raised in a different time by some strong women with they own minds and they own grind See my mama was a hustla Taught me how to stack that money and make it double up Picture me with my bamboo earrings with my girls at the block party on 15th (yeah) Wrist full of bangles, me and my girls Rockin' ocean waves and leisure curls, FILAs, K Swiss with the ruffle socks Way back then before they knocked down scotts Before the dope boys started riding on fours It was trues and vogues, fifties and lows And I been driving dudes insane Dade County home of the baddest b**h in the game Ooh (Miami) Paradise You better think twice 'Cause it's not very nice Ooh (Miami) Paradise You better think twice 'Cause it's not very nice (let's take it back) We used to come through with the top down (with the top down) Take the whole back seat out and watch the b**h beat out My backyard was a reefer hole (was a reefer hole) Any thots wearing lil shorts we called them skeezer hos Every Friday we was in the hay hay From one to five on Saturday it was Kitty day And we was Pac Jam junkies then If you wasn't from one of them beans you wasn't getting in All them n***as off of 15th avenue They was eating like them boys off of Malibu And 2 Live was our n***as with attitude (N.W.A) M&M boots, silk shirts and Bally shoes The Splash Down or the Goombay Parade on six two for Martin Luther King Day And overtown used to come alive We used to give straight up fades before we did drive bys (yeah) Ooh (Miami) Paradise You better think twice 'Cause it's not very nice Ooh (Miami) Paradise You better think twice 'Cause it's not very nice Slip N Slide Records, shout shout to the world's famous