Midnight rush, with a pen in my hand

Inkin Lincoln, sand-script with a fan

Remembering me, before it began

Sometimes I felt so Def in the Jam



Cuz the ones who loved me, told me to stop

Like homegirl can't catch sh*t if it drops

A superwoman chick, you know that I am

Some sh*t don’t fly by me in a man



Cuz I do not accept any less

Than someone just as real, as fabulous



Don’t want no PAPER GANGSTA

Won’t sign away my life to

Someone whose got the flavor

But don’t have no follow through

Don’t want no PAPER GANGSTA

Wont sign no monkey papers

I don’t do funny business

Not interested in fakers

Don’t want no PAPER GANGSTA

Uh oh

Don’t want no PAPER GANGSTA

Uh oh



Got something really shiny to start

Want me to sign there on your Range Rover heart?

I’ve heard it before

Yeah, the dinners were nice

Till your diamond words melted into some ice



You should been rapping to the beat of my song Mr. California,

PAPER GANGSTA and I’m lookin’ for love, not an

empty page full of stuff that means nothing but “you’ve been played”



Cuz I do not accept any less

Than someone just as real, as fabulous











Written by: Lady Gaga, RedOne

Stefani Germanotta p/k/a Lady Gaga (BMI) Sony/ATV Songs LLC / House Of Gaga Publishing Inc. / GloJoe Music Inc. (BMI), Sony/ATV Songs LLC / RedOne Productions, LLC (BMI). 



Produced by RedOne for RedOne/Konvict.

All instruments played and programmed by RedOne. 

Recorded and engineered by RedOne. 

Recorded at Record Plant, Hollywood, CA. 

Background Vocals: Lady Gaga and RedOne. 

Mixed by Robert Orton