[00:00.000] 作词 : Larry Muggerud/Louis Freese
[00:00.047] 作曲 : Larry Muggerud/Louis Freese
[00:00.94]You know people just don't
[00:02.11]People just don't see how much work
[00:04.01]Is really involved in this rap sh*t
[00:05.84]I didn't know it
[00:07.16]I didn't see it
[00:07.97]I never saw it until I was actually in it
[00:10.25]You really gotta be in it
[00:11.49]To understand what it's like
[00:12.70]But you always gotta
[00:13.95]People always gotta see you smile
[00:15.74]You always gotta put on that fake
[00:17.26]You know what I'm sayin'
[00:18.07]Like no matter what you just been through
[00:19.60]See it's gotta be right
[00:20.48]So you wanna be a rap superstar and live large
[00:22.62]A big house  5 cars  you're in charge
[00:24.89]Comin' up in the world  don't trust nobody
[00:27.56]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[00:29.78]I remember the days when I was a young kid growin' up
[00:32.28]Lookin' in the mirror dreamin' about blowin' up
[00:34.56]To rock crowds  make money  chill wit' the honeys
[00:37.17]Sign autographs and whatever the people want from me
[00:39.85]Shits funny  how impossible
[00:41.41]Cream manifest in the games that be comin' with it
[00:44.09]Never the less you gotta go for the gusto
[00:46.17]But you don't know about the blood sweat and tears
[00:48.61]And losin' some of your peers and losin' some of yourself
[00:51.14]Music has past gone by
[00:52.77]Hopefully you don't manifest for the wrong guy
[00:55.38]Egomaniac in the brainiac  don't know how to act
[00:58.41]Shits deep  48 tracks  studio gangsta mack
[01:01.22]Sign a deal  Emcees wanna make a mill
[01:03.41]But never will till he crosses over still feelin' no hate
[01:06.35]But fantasies come wit' these just to
[01:08.22]Sacrifice the taste of makin' cheese
[01:10.10]You wanna be a rap superstar in the biz
[01:12.92]And take sh*t from people who don't know what it is
[01:15.53]I wish it was all fun and games
[01:17.20]But the price of fame is high
[01:18.76]And some can't pay to play
[01:20.19]Trapped in what you rappin' about
[01:22.04]Tell me what happened when you lost clout
[01:24.08]The rout you took started collapsing
[01:25.61]No fans  no fame  no respect
[01:27.91]No change
[01:28.48]No women and everybody shits on your name
[01:30.71]So you wanna be a rap superstar and live large
[01:33.22]A big house  5 cars  the rent charged
[01:36.23]Comin' up in the world  don't trust nobody
[01:38.94]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[01:41.22]To be a rap superstar and live large
[01:43.55]A big house  5 cars the rent charged
[01:46.41]Comin' up in the world
[01:47.72]Don't trust nobody
[01:49.20]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[01:51.60]When you sign to a record label
[01:53.47]You don't know you sign your life over
[01:55.30]And these white boys don't care about you
[01:56.94]'Cuz the minute you fall off
[01:58.26]They'll find another Noreaga
[01:59.40]And they'll find another Capone N-Noreaga
[02:01.46]And they'll find another B-Real
[02:02.70]So you need to just keep
[02:04.03]Stack your chips up
[02:05.15]Do what you gotta do while your hot
[02:06.81]And motherf**kin' get out the game
[02:08.44]Just do for the drug game is
[02:09.74]Even worse because in a drug game
[02:11.63]If somebody jerks you
[02:12.73]You can shoot 'em and kill 'em
[02:14.05]But in this game if somebody jerks you
[02:16.07]You gotta be humble
[02:17.13]No matter what you just been through
[02:18.58]Sh*t has gotta be right
[02:19.95]You gotta approach people
[02:21.10]You gotta be on the up and up
[02:22.64]And everything's gotta be all good
[02:24.09]When you see somebody slap hands with 'em
[02:26.38]You know what I'm sayin' give 'em a
[02:28.28]Pound or whatever it is
[02:29.42]But you always gotta act like it ain't sh*t
[02:31.68]So you wanna be a rap superstar and live large
[02:34.28]A big house  5 cars  the rent charged
[02:37.32]Comin' up in the world  don't trust nobody
[02:40.01]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[02:42.33]To be a rap superstar and live large
[02:44.69]A big house  5 cars
[02:46.48]The rent charged
[02:47.41]Comin' up in the world
[02:48.79]Don't trust nobody
[02:50.13]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[02:52.22]My own son don't know me
[02:53.66]I'm chillin' in a hotel room lonely
[02:55.65]But I thank God I'm wit' my homies but sometimes
[02:58.14]I wish I was back home but only no radio or videos
[03:01.71]'Cause they show me no love
[03:03.16]The phony gotta hit the road slowly
[03:05.29]So the record gets pushed by Sony
[03:07.65]I'm in the middle like monie and the press say that
[03:10.00]My own people disowned me
[03:11.43]And the best way back is to keep your head straight
[03:13.79]Never inflate the cranium
[03:15.18]Your crew worried about them honeys at the palladium
[03:17.66]Who just wanna cling on swing on
[03:19.77]And so on and go on and fall off
[03:21.96]The hoes fall off to the next rap superstar
[03:24.50]Wit' no shame give him a year and
[03:26.43]They'll be right out the game
[03:28.08]The same as the last one who came before him
[03:30.60]Gained fame started gettin' ignored
[03:32.33]I warned him  assured him
[03:33.75]This ain't easy take it from Weezy
[03:35.62]Sleazy people wanna be cheesy
[03:36.69]They talkin' evil
[03:42.92]So you wanna be a rap superstar and live large
[03:45.66]A big house  5 cars
[03:47.77]The rent charged
[03:48.80]Comin' up in the world
[03:50.04]Don't trust nobody
[03:51.36]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[03:53.35]Assassin
[03:53.53]Assassin
[03:54.10]To be a rap superstar and live large
[03:56.14]A big house  5 cars
[03:57.75]The rent charged
[03:58.83]Comin' up in the world
[04:00.25]Don't trust nobody
[04:01.48]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly