| Yeah yeah yeah, cause I’m bout to be just like him
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| I’m bout to get in the Rap Game
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| I’ma have me a car, ima have them rims, have them rings he got, them diamonds,
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| women around him just like he got
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| I’m about to do the same thing he do blow up overnight
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| K Rino:
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| Blow up overnight? |
| Boy, hey mayne the game don’t work like that
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| There’s alot to this game that you don’t understand. |
| I’ve been in this game a
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| long time
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| Let me educate you
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| You ain’t ready
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| You ain’t ready
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| You ain’t ready
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| You ain’t ready
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| You ain’t ready
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| You ain’t ready
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| It’s real out here
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| This game ain’t what you think it is dude it’s so deep
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| You ready to grind all day and night and get no sleep?
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| Push from the ground up to make your city proud
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| Rock the stage with only 10 or 12 people in the crowd
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| Stay true and do things that other artists wouldn’t even do
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| Deal with family members and friends that don’t believe you
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| Practice with all your might to make your lyrics tight
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| Work on one verse a whole night just to get it right
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| All the ups and the downs the frustration and the stressing
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| Bad promo investments long studio sessions
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| You ready for them tough shows and hating crowd trippin'?
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| What about when the mic goes out and the CD starts skipping?
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| Jealous and lazy rappers in your clique mad because you hot
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| Holdin the group back because they ain’t got the drive you got
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| How you gon to feel when it goes to happiness to not fun
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| Trying to hustle CD’s and nobody will buy one
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| Hook:
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| You think you ready for this grind boy?
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| You ain’t ready
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| Ready to put all that time boy?
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| You ain’t ready
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| You think the game is all pretty and sweet
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| It ain’t nothing like that fake shit you see on TV
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| You think you ready for the game fool?
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| The disappointments and pain fool?
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| Hell naw!
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| You think the game is all pretty and sweet
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| It ain’t nothing like that fake shit you see on TV
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| What’s going to happen when you dropped the best song you ever made?
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| And the DJ tell you you got to pay him to get it played
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| When you gettin a few shows and you still ain’t ahead
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| And 30 club promoters trying to cheat you out your bread
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| Are you mentally prepared for what you plan on pursuing?
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| Are you strong enough to handle if the crowd starts boo-ing?
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| This ain’t a joke, sooner than later you’ll realize
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| You’re putting yourself out there for the world to criticize
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| Can you handle the pressure that comes from being an artist?
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| Reading internet comments about how your album was garbage
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| You ready to hit the road for two months to push a record?
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| Signing a contract before you let your lawyer check it
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| Cats bootlegging your CD’s at the hood corner store
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| Somebody with no talent getting rich off yours
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| Are you ready for that deal that’s going to get you some juice
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| And not even owning the songs that you wrote and produced
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| Hook:
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| You think you ready for this grind boy?
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| You ain’t ready
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| Ready to put all that time boy?
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| You ain’t ready
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| You think the game is all pretty and sweet
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| It ain’t nothing like that fake shit you see on TV
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| You think you ready for the game fool?
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| The disappointments and pain fool?
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| Hell naw!
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| You think the game is all pretty and sweet
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| It ain’t nothing like that fake shit you see on TV
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| Are you ready for that quick fame that comes up on you
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| Fans who love you one year, but next year turn on you
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| All them blood sucking friends trying to use and leech ya
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| People hittin you up wanting free shows and features
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| When the hood tell you you cappin and you no longer down
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| Can you not cheat on your woman when there’s groupies around?
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| When your label tells you you’re too hard you’re too strong
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| Are you ready to sell your soul and make so some satanic songs?
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| What you goin to do when you’re tired and fans approach you
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| Are you ready to take pictures and sign thousands of posters
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| Take you a seat, this game was born in the streets, it ain’t soft and sweet
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| Can you handle drama and beef?
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| What’s goin to happen when there’s no more cars and no more blingin'?
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| When the girls stop screaming and the phone stops ringin'
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| You ready for this lifestyle or just blow a smoke, selling a million records is
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| still being broke
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| Common
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| Hook:
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| You think you ready for this grind boy?
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| You ain’t ready
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| Ready to put all that time boy?
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| You ain’t ready
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| You think the game is all pretty and sweet
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| It ain’t nothing like that fake shit you see on TV
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| You think you ready for the game fool?
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| The disappointments and pain fool?
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| Hell naw!
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| You think the game is all pretty and sweet
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| It ain’t nothing like that fake shit you see on TV |