| Yeah
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| This goes out to everybody that’s trying to get on
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| Think they gonna get rich
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| Take notes, yo
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| Through the lights, camera and action
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| Glamour, glitters and gold
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| Here’s a warning to anybody that considers this road
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| Of riches, filled with jewelry, cars, and thirsty bitches
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| Crooked contracts, the close friends who switches
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| Up on you when things go sour
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| Around y’all
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| It’s called a downfall cause it brings more showers
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| But don’t forget the rain in the spring grows flowers
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| That causes you to rise where a king shows power
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| And it’s not easy
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| You got a measly one shot
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| To be hot up in the game
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| But over time it got sleazy
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| Major labels wanna judge you off your last record
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| Then design something you can sign, to fuck your ass naked
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| That can turn your 15 minutes into last seconds
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| Take it from somebody with a past checkered as mine
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| I was in a group around '99
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| But rappin' since eight, thought it was great
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| To be finally signed
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| But little did I know I made a huge mistake
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| I found out the label and the manager was fake
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| And the person that betrayed me the most was my partner
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| Though all three would be the reason for my departure
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| I’m thinking to myself
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| «How you let them out smart ya?»
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| Nobody warned me like I’m warning you
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| Happy, aren’t ya?
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| But I’mma show’em
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| That it was nice to know’em
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| Or maybe I should ho 'em
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| And throw them in the poem
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| Cause they think that I’m below them
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| Just wait until my shit drop
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| Cause I got a drive that don’t slow down for pit stops
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| And this one goes to my aspiring artists
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| With the fire in their eyes
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| To reach higher and farthest in the skies
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| May every move you make be wise
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| And may every mistake
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| You can take and reprise
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| You only get one shot
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| It’s not like you get three tries
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| To rise like G5s
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| And I’m out…
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| Yeah
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| This is how it goes, yo
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| Read between the lines
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| Make sure your paperwork’s straight, get your attorneys
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| You don’t wanna be like me yo
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| Sign a bullshit contract
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| Fuck that
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| Get your own
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| For all my aspiring artists out there |