She Said I'm Hood Tho

You know what you callin' when they live in another country

(What?) an i-Thot

'Cause they like to drive around in a th-iat

She's Ethotopian

Yo, Ne-yo, come here

Let me introduce you to somebody (every day I thought about a dollar)

Temptation, Ne-Yo, Ne-Yo, temptation

She said "I know, I know, I know your music

I prefer your old ** to your new **

That song with Pitbull, that was kinda cool

But after that, you went left and I couldn't ** with you"

Well damn, couldn't help but appreciate

That she was bold enough to say this to my face

She even went as far to give me her Twitter name

She said, "I tweeted you and told you the same thing"

But, she said, "I never thought I'd meet

And you cuter in real life than on TV

You a celebrity

You could have any girl you want

What the hell you want with me?"

I told her, baby (oh), there is a difference (oh)

Between what you really want (oh) and what you can get (oh)

I can have anything (anything)

But I don't want just anything (just anything)

I want you (I want you)

I, I want you, yeah, yeah, yeah (I want you, yeah, yeah, yeah)

(From Satan's glance for this just chance)

(They told this tale)

I said, "You got (you got), you got (you got)

You got me twisted (twisted)

What my celebrity got to do with it? (Ah-ha)

Just cause I can have don't mean I want them chicks

I take quality over quantity any day, you dig, you dig?"

She said, "I'm hood though, Ne-Yo (so hood)

And I know you be on your goody good though, Ne-Yo

Get ratchet, yes I could (I could), though, Ne-Yo

Mess up your image, I probably would though, Ne-Yo" (yeah)

I said, "You don't scare me (you don't scare me)

The word "gentleman" starts with "G"" (ah)

She said, "You a celebrity

You could have any girl you want, what you want with me?"

I told her, baby (oh, yeah), there is a difference (difference, oh)

Between what you really want (oh) (between what you really)

And what you can get (and what you can get)

I can have anything (anything)

But I don't want just anything (just anything)

I want you (I want you)

I, I want you, yeah, yeah, yeah (I want you, yeah, yeah, yeah)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah

Now that she sat there, starin' at me like she wasn't sure

Questionin' my intentions, why and what for

Thinkin', "He can have actresses, singers or models galore

I work in a nail shop, every day in that ** from eight until four"

Shawty's a rose that grows through the cracks in the concrete

Her mother's body but her brother's knowledge of the street

Kick all you beautiful lies, shawty ain't goin' for 'em

She type stubborn, like her daddy, but she don't know him

Got me feelin' like I ain't good enough

I ain't a D-boy or a thug so I ain't hood enough

Or maybe it's the other way around and shawty's self esteem is down

Not good enough to wife but good enough to **, nah mama

I'm really tryna get to know

What's under your guard and not just what's under your clothes

You feel me?

And don't concern yourself with status, I don't

It ain't about what I can have, it's about what I want, you dig?

Baby (oh), there is a difference (oh)

Between what you really want and what you can get (oh)

I can have anything (anything)

But I don't want just anything (just anything)

I want you (I want you)

I, I want you, yeah, yeah, yeah (I want you, yeah, yeah, yeah)