| I’m at a space in my mind where I gotta find myself
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| Talk to God, I need to get him on the line myself
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| If they stop believing in me, I’ma sign myself
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| If the team stop working, I’ma grind myself
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| These people, they’ll try to put you through hell
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| You find yourself in a cell spending life in jail
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| My life worth way more, but they want us to fail
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| I swear the city at war, and I don’t know what it’s for
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| My soldier just lost his life when I was gone on tour
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| It’s something 'bout the fast life, I guess it’s just the allure
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| She love it
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| How you try to keep it real then start switching the subject?
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| I swear this game built off niggas stunting in public
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| Everybody is a star until they realize that they wasn’t
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| I just do it for the art, that’s the reason I love it
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| That mean it ain’t enough money for me to say fuck it
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| I just signed a new deal and fucked off the budget
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| (Why? Why? Why? Why?
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| Why? |
| Why? |
| Why? |
| Why? |
| Why? |
| Why?)
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| Why they make it so hard for the starving artists
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| That’s going hard for the culture and love it regardless
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| That don’t do it for the money, that’s not why we started
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| I just do it for my fans, that’s just where my heart is
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| A lot of niggas come around acting like they all in
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| But let a nigga go down, they can’t even call in
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| Let some shit go south and you gone find your fake friends
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| How you gon' put me on the shelf when I gotta make ends?
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| And make headlines, working, ain’t got no bedtime
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| In the lab in the clouds, and still gotta catch a redeye
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| Tryna make history, but still gotta meet the deadline
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| It’s something 'bout it, every time feel like the first time
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| Dear mom, I don’t want to see you work none
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| I’ma make enough to take care me, you, and your first son
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| I lost my grandma, she was my first love
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| But girl, I know you watching me, got angels flying all above
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| (Why? Why? Why? Why?
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| Why? |
| Why? |
| Why? |
| Why? |
| Why? |
| Why?)
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| Gotta take it slow, that money coming so fast
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| Gotta take it slow, these hoes coming so fast
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| Gotta take it slow, them cars driving so fast
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| I’m caught up in the game, and shit changed so fast
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| Given the state of the industry, can an artist sustain success working with a
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| smaller label or staying independent?
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| Yeah, um, you know I think it, it. |
| the metric system or the system for what
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| success is varies from person to person. |
| It depends what you want.
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| There’s some people who want to have, you know, ten million singles sold and
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| that’s what they look at success as, um
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| What do you look at?
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| I mean, I think, I look at… for me, it’s being able to touch and affect
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| people in a positive way and have, have music that lasts for a long time.
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| Have a long career, and um, just you know, being able to be influential in,
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| in a positive way |