40 Bars

Nicki Minaj Playtime Is Over
Released	July 5, 2007
Genre	Rap
Length	2:09
Label	Dirty Money Records
Writer	Onika Maraj
Producer	Swizz Beatz

Song track listing
"40 Bars" is track number 9.
Previous track "Click Clack"	Next track "Dilly Dally"

"40 Bars" is the ninth track on Nicki Minaj's first mixtape, Playtime Is Over. Minaj later re-used some of the lyrics in "BedRock" ("He pressin me like button downs on a Friday night"). The recording is an original rap over the beat of "Banned from T.V." by Noreaga, Nature, Cam'ron and The Lox.

Freestyle video

40 Bars was originally freestyled by Nicki on the come up DVD.Nicki later re-recorded for the Playtime Is Over mixtape. In the freestyle video, Minaj raps a cappella on a staircase with her friends TT and Candace sitting behind her. At the 2011 BET Awards, Minaj described being "discovered" by Lil Wayne while rapping on a staircase; it is very possible that this freestyle is the beginning of relationship with Wayne and Young Money.

40 Bars

Lyrics

"40 Bars" (Nicki Minaj) [Explicit]

Ha ha, ha ha It's your girl Nicki Minaj, bitches Listen, y'all better buckle y'all motherfuckin' seat-belts broads It's goin' down Fitted down and I'm ready to play When your album gonna drop, bitches never could say Say, fuck I look like giving birds they props Bitches act like they hot, but I heard they not How the fuck you in the game like ten years strong? You bitches still can't write ya own damn song? You see me on the stoop, man, these birds just salute me Whether I'm in the coupe or the hoopty-doopty I'm always with a dude that'll off the kufi Let him eat my coochie and cop me Pucci House in the boonies, rock a doobie Cock the twenty-two then spark a loosey He tell me I'm the one, he probably right He pressing me like button downs on a Friday night Your girl get it poppin' like dynamite, dynamite The coke albino white Name one bitch in the game that I can't murder Chicken noodle bitches on the side with a soda Give it to everybody like a cop with a quota Stop playing poker, hop in something mocha I eat bitches, no knife, no fork-a Bitch want it with me? Living the life loca Oh, I get it you a joker Leave a dot on your head and I ain't talking 'bout polka You the type that be runnin your mouth See you on the block, wanna run in your house I'm with that nigga Fendi, never fucks with a slouch I fuck with Dirty Money like what's under the couch Cause ain't a bitch could fuck with my flow When it comes to drugs, mami, just say no Either you're on something or you're S-L-O Had to switch up the flow, let this sketels know I come, come hard, I don't come with garbage Just one phone call they gon' come regardless I always got the ball, ma I roll with starters Write my own bars and my flow's the hardest, nigga