Most people don't see how much work
Is really involved in this rap ****
I didn't know it, I didn't see it
I never saw it until I was actually in it
You really gotta be in it to understand what it's like

But you always gotta
People always gotta see your smile
You always gotta put on that fake
You know what I'm sayin'
No matter what you just been through

So you wanna be a rap superstar
And live large a big house, 5 cars, you're in charge
Comin' up in the world, don't trust nobody
Gotta look over your shoulder constantly

I remember the days when I was a young kid growin' up
Lookin' in the mirror dreamin' about blowin' up
To rock crowds, make money, chill wit' the honies
Sign autographs and whatever the people want from me, ****'s funny

How impossible cream manifest in the games that be comin' with it
Never the less you gotta go for the gusto
But you don't know about the blood sweat and tears
And losin' some of your peers, and losin' some of your self

Music has past gone by
Hopefully you don't manifest for the wrong guy
Egomaniac in the brainiac
Don't know how to act, ****'s deep

48 tracks, studio gangsta mack
Sign a deal emcees wanna make a mill but never will
Till he crosses over still, feelin' no hate
But fantasies come wit' these

Just to sacrifice the taste of makin' cheese
You wanna be a rap superstar in the biz
And take **** from people who don't know what it is

I wish it was all fun and games
But the price of fame is high
And some can't pay to play
Trapped in what you rappin' about
Tell me what happened when you lost clout

The route you took started collapsing
No fans, no fame, no respect
No change, no women
And everyone ****s on your name

So you wanna be a rap superstar
And live large, a big house, 5 cars, the rent charged
Comin' up in the world, don't trust nobody
Gotta look over your shoulder constantly

To be a rap superstar
And live large, a big house, 5 cars, the rent charged
Comin' up in the world don't trust nobody
Gotta look over your shoulder constantly

When you sign to a record label
You don't know you sign your life over
And these white boys don't care about you
'Cuz the minute you fall off
They'll find another Noreaga
And they'll find another Capone-n-Noreaga
And they'll find another B-Real

So you need to just keep, stack your chips up
Do what you gotta do while you are hot
And ma***kin' get out the game, stick to the drug game
And the drug game is even worse
Because if someone jerks you, you can shoot 'em and kill me
But in this game if someone jerks you, you gotta be humble

No matter what you just been through
**** has gotta be right
You gotta approach people
You gotta be on the up and up

And everything gotta be all good
When you see someone slap hands with 'em
You know what I'm sayin' give 'em a pound
Or whatever it is but you always gotta act like it ain't ****

So you wanna be a rap superstar
And live large, a big house, 5 cars, the rent charged
Comin' up in the world, don't trust nobody
Gotta look over your shoulder constantly

To be a rap superstar
And live large, a big house, 5 cars, the rent charged
Comin' up in the world don't trust nobody
Gotta look over your shoulder constantly

My own son don't know me
Sittin' up in the hotel room lonley
But I thank God I'm wit' my homies
But sometimes I wish I was back home
But only no radio or videos 'cuz they show me no love

The phony gotta hit the road slowly
So the record gets pushed by Sony
I'm in the middle like monie
And the press say that my own people disowned me

And the best way back is to keep your head straight
Never inflate the cranium
Your crew worried about them honies at the paladium
Who just wanna cling on swing on

And so on and go on and fall off
The hoes fall off to the next rap superstar
Wit' no shame give him a year
And they'll be right out the game

The same as the last one
Who came before him
Gained fame, started gettin' ignored
I warned him, ***ured him
This ain't easy take it from weezy
Sleezy people wanna be cheesey
They talkin' evil

So you wanna be a rap superstar
And live large, a big house, 5 cars, the rent charged
Comin' up in the world, don't trust nobody
Gotta look over your shoulder constantly

To be a rap superstar
And live large, a big house, 5 cars, the rent charged
Comin' up in the world don't trust nobody
Gotta look over your shoulder constantly