| If you don’t want to hear the truth, then just skip past this one
|
| Keep telling lies because the truth hurt, keep telling lies 'cause the truth
|
| hurt
|
| Signed a deal, then they lie about they net worth
|
| You can’t make Forbes and have a 360 deal
|
| I know everybody tryin' to get that water deal
|
| Everybody tryin' to get that Rocawear deal
|
| Evreybody tryin' to get that 80/20 deal like I did
|
| This the realest shit I ever wrote
|
| This the realest shit I ever spoke
|
| This the shit they don’t want you to know
|
| But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know
|
| This the realest shit I ever wrote
|
| This the realest shit I ever spoke
|
| This the shit they don’t want you to know
|
| But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know
|
| They give us one percent, we think we own the team
|
| Signed a record deal but the money don’t match a nigga dream
|
| Then they put these rookies against each other
|
| They used to be homeboys, now they tryna to kill each other
|
| Don’t even read when they sign these deals
|
| Just head straight to and holler 'Shine these grills'
|
| And when you hot, they gon' let you use their house
|
| And when you not, that’s the day they kick you out
|
| While Richard Branson having fun flying in space
|
| These artists out here starving, catching a case
|
| I don’t know what they did to Mase
|
| But I heard Ciroc gave Puffy some cake
|
| And these hoes and these jewels’ll be a young nigga downfall
|
| They giving like 50 mil' for playin' roundball
|
| Then throw your name in the paper
|
| And make it easy access for the haters
|
| This the realest shit I ever wrote
|
| This the realest shit I ever spoke
|
| This the shit they don’t want you to know
|
| But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know
|
| This the realest shit I ever wrote
|
| This the realest shit I ever spoke
|
| This the shit they don’t want you to know
|
| But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know
|
| They got financial advisors just to pay their bills
|
| Dre hit with Beats, now every rapper want that deal
|
| How you gon' make 50 mil' and go kill a nigga?
|
| Too many steroids, damn you a silly nigga
|
| Now these athletes want to be rappers
|
| These rappers make a lil' money and they want to be trappers
|
| Buy a phantom and don’t have no house
|
| These niggas backwards from the inside out
|
| And y’all want to be Kobe 'cause he own the team
|
| I’m tryna be the white boy that own the league
|
| And I pledge allegiance to the American dream
|
| And educated myself so they won’t kill my dreams
|
| I’m glad Nike gave Lebron a 100 mil'
|
| But took that same endorsement, turned into a couple of bills
|
| And rappers losing to these sponsors
|
| Reality shows think you creating stars, they making monsters
|
| This the realest shit I ever wrote
|
| This the realest shit I ever spoke
|
| This the shit they don’t want you to know
|
| But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know
|
| This the realest shit I ever wrote
|
| This the realest shit I ever spoke
|
| This the shit they don’t want you to know
|
| But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know
|
| Why we doin' 360 deals when it’s so much technology out there
|
| We could do our own shit?
|
| And why you athletes hookin' up with business niggas
|
| That never even made money before, to watch your money?
|
| Shit don’t make no sense
|
| This the realest shit I ever wrote, wake up man, sign your own check
|
| Invest like one-third of your money just in case you need that for a rainy day
|
| You feel me? |
| These strip clubs and cars don’t hold no value, that’s a bad
|
| investment
|
| You fall down, you get back up, that’s how hustlers do it
|
| And if you could help your people, you help them
|
| You don’t let them starve, you never know who might be the next you, nigga
|
| You get a lot of friends when you got money
|
| But when you don’t have shit, ain’t nobody gon' fuck with you
|
| Listen to what I’m sayin' man, don’t let this be you
|
| And don’t let no nigga kill your dreams man
|
| Your never too old, never too young
|
| To be able to make music or do what you want to do
|
| You ever seen a rich PD or on-air personality, anybody ever check their salary?
|
| Muthafuckas always tryin' to kill a nigga dream
|
| Man don’t worry about no radio, I ain’t never worried about gettin' my songs on
|
| the radio
|
| Get your shit in the streets to your people
|
| Nigga get out there and hustle, do what you do, man
|
| Stop all that fuckin' crying, nobody give a fuck about you
|
| Everybody got a problem, nigga, do you
|
| Fuck these haters, stop fuckin' with all these broke hoes
|
| Find you somebody with an education or a job, somebody that could help you
|
| Say you hang around a bunch of broke muthafuckas then you broke
|
| You hang around rich muthafuckas then you rich |