[00:00.76]Still dreaming
[00:05.95]Still dreaming
[00:11.08]Still dreaming
[00:16.45]Still dreaming
[00:19.76]No reason to still be dreaming
[00:22.20]Remember everything they told me
[00:23.33]while I'm smoking this “rollie”
[00:24.89]I kick back and note they tell me cos
[00:26.64]they can't really show me
[00:27.57]so once again I feel lonely but they can't throw me
[00:29.74]if only the pages of my lyric textbook speak for me
[00:33.06]a demo gets cut, a record label calls me
[00:35.31]they sign me then put the record out
[00:37.37]and then they tour me
[00:38.49]on stage they applaud me
[00:39.49]shorties coming to my dressing room to have an orgy
[00:41.56]such a fabulous story
[00:42.43]it's the life of an MC, successful paid but stressful
[00:46.18]no longer have to live the life that the rest do
[00:48.68]God bless you, other rappers wanna pester you
[00:51.06]the same people who didn't like
[00:52.68]you are standing next to you
[00:54.06]but beware, fake nigga's cut you just like a vegetable
[00:56.31]now you rocking hip-hop in heavy metal festivals
[00:58.12]is this the life of an unknown artist?
[01:00.93]Trying his hardest to reach
[01:03.12]the dreams that he started with?
[01:04.56]Still dreaming of the record deals, fast life
[01:07.43]money stacked up, but it feels like your still dreaming
[01:09.68]of the parties the females,
[01:11.62]sign a contract screw the details
[01:13.81]
[01:15.28]your still dreaming of the fame and celebrity
[01:18.09]you made it to the top so you could never be still dreaming
[01:21.28]and it seems like there's no reason to still be dreaming
[01:24.98]Studio schedule intense,
[01:26.34]making more money than sense
[01:28.10]record label put your best joints on the bench
[01:31.09]need you more mainstream,
[01:32.16]now you second guessing should have kept this as a daydream
[01:35.03]plans ain't coming together the way the A-Team do
[01:37.60]on one side it's team record label,
[01:40.03]other side is team you
[01:41.41]and it's not that clear,
[01:42.66]none of this is see through
[01:43.97]got strangers trying to say the best way to be you
[01:46.53]creatively you ain't get a look in
[01:48.35]and record sales dying so you ain't getting bookings
[01:51.59]and producers no longer wanna see what's cooking
[01:53.66]and no more messages from Tokyo to Brooklyn
[01:57.18]the game giving you the cold shoulder
[01:59.17]now a little older and refusing to believe that it's over
[02:01.97]is this the life of an unknown artist?
[02:05.09]Trying his hardest to reach the dreams that he started with
[02:08.03]Still dreaming of the record deals, fast life
[02:10.72]money stacked up, but it feels like your still dreaming
[02:13.85]of the parties the females,
[02:15.47]sign a contract screw the details
[02:17.35]your still dreaming of the fame and celebrity
[02:20.86]you made it to the top so you could never be still dreaming
[02:24.99]and it seems like there's no reason to still be dreaming
[02:28.49]The game, lied it's like it blindfolded my eyes
[02:31.42]I learnt the hard way and never had a pleasant surprise
[02:33.99]so I can hardly recommend the stress and the lies
[02:36.62]it's too ungodly, whatever made me think I'd be fine
[02:39.43]bamboozled, this ain't what I'm used to
[02:41.74]now I'm like a puppet doing all the things I'd normally refuse to
[02:44.30]screw loose, people in my ear like Bluetooth
[02:46.93]new youth, everybody talking “he the new truth”
[02:50.37]sitting on the outside, thinking bout the inside
[02:52.75]regular nine to five job, I would have been fine
[02:55.54]too late, now I can't be a Marty Mcfly
[02:58.05]eighty eight MPH struggling to get by
[03:00.68]still rhyme but impossible to have the passion
[03:03.37]cos even when you dope it seems they put you out of fashion
[03:06.37]is this the life of an unknown artist?
[03:08.57]Trying his hardest to reach the dreams that he started with?
[03:11.55]Still dreaming of the record deals, fast life
[03:13.93]money stacked up, but it feels like your still dreaming
[03:16.55]of the parties the females,
[03:18.43]sign a contract screw the details
[03:21.25]your still dreaming of the fame and celebrity
[03:24.24]you made it to the top so you could never be still dreaming
[03:27.79]and it seems like there's no reason to still be dreaming