In what seems to be becoming the norm, rather than the exception, Missy Elliot surprise-drops a modern masterpiece with a feature from Cainion Lamb, in his rap debut. Nearly 2 years after her Super Bowl performance with Katy Perry, Misdemeanor decided the time was now to make the official musical co...
[Hook: Lamb]
I'mma start it from the bottom
Show you how to flip a dollar
I got food in my dining room
I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
It's another day, another chance
I wake up, I wanna dance
So as long as I got my friends...
I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
[Verse 1: Missy]
He say I'm hot, I'm so fuego
Pull up on him in my vehicle
He say I'm pretty, I'm pretty
You must be from Brazil, or must be from México
Roll up on him in my Lambo
Jump out like skrrrt, yeah bro
You need a chick like me to make you wanna leave them other broads, you don't know nann hoe
[Bridge: Missy]
Yeah he got bands in the Bando
Missy got dudes in Orlando
Plus I got cars that he paying for
Man I be too much to handle
Watch what I do, when I get up on you
Pop potential in my room and zoom in the poom
He watching my body like he watching Scandal
But I'm just here, with my girls
[Hook: Lamb]
I'mma start it from the bottom
Show you how to flip a dollar
I got food in my dining room
I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
It's another day, another chance
I wake up, I wanna dance
So as long as I got my friends...
I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
[Verse 2: Missy]
Missy so hot, I'm from VA
The car that I drive be Ferr-ar-i
My clique is so thick and the boys they be hollin' and whistlin'
At me like damn bae
Man I'm 3000, I'm André
Yo Missy talk big, I'm so grande
Bruce Lee on the beat, I don't compete with none of these geeks
I just rant like I'm Kanye
[Bridge 2: Missy]
Yeah he got bands in the Bando
Missy got dudes in Orlando
And I be driving cars he paying for
He say I'm too much, I'm a handful
He watching my body like watching he Scandal
But I'm just here, with my girls
[Hook: Lamb]
I'mma start it from the bottom
Show you how to flip a dollar
I got food in my dining room
I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
It's another day, another chance
I wake up, I wanna dance
So as long as I got my friends...
I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
[Verse 3: Missy]
Brand new flow when I rap
DJ, bring that back
You ain't ever heard a track like that
Shit might slap, booty go clap
Roll up in the Benz
Looking like a ten, stack
When I rock, make it bop, in my car
And it bang-bang-bang like (tune-out noise) go blap-blap-blap
[Bridge 3: Missy]
Yeah he got bands in the Bando
Missy got dudes in Orlando
Buying me bags and new shoes and new cars and everything I know that he paying for
Yeah he be hooking me up
Yeah he be looking me up
Watch what I do, when I get up on you
Pop potential and zoom in the poom
[Hook: Lamb]
I'mma start it from the bottom
Show you how to flip a dollar
I got food in my dining room
I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
It's another day, another chance
I wake up, I wanna dance
So as long as I got my friends...
I'm better, I'm better, I'm better
I’m Better was written by Young Yonny & Cainon Lamb & Steven Q-Beatz & Bigg D & Missy Elliott.
I’m Better was produced by Young Yonny & Bigg D & Cainon Lamb.
Missy Elliott released I’m Better on Thu Jan 26 2017.
From part of her interview with Fact Magazine:
[I’m Better] fits in a place of now, but still [has] a Missy twist. When I listened to it, I immediately saw something visually. That doesn’t happen all the time, there are videos where that hasn’t happened and there are videos where that has happened....
Cainion Lamb is a Florida-originating songwriter and producer, who has credits dating back to Fantasia’s Free Yourself album in 2004 (“Selfish”). He has participated in many successful releases, including Keyshia Cole’s “Let It Go”, Jazmine Sullivan’s “Need U Bad” and “Holding You Down (Goin' In Cir...
Missy on making the music video:
When I listened to it, I immediately saw something visually. That doesn’t happen all the time, there are videos where that hasn’t happened and there are videos where that has happened. ‘The Rain’ was one of them where I immediately saw, visually, what I could do. Af...