[00:00.00](Eminem Speaking)
[00:00.83]you know people just don't see
[00:03.16]how much work is really involved in this rap ****
[00:06.16]I didn't know it
[00:07.31]I didn't see it
[00:08.11]I never saw it until I was actually in it
[00:10.40]You really gotta be in it
[00:11.60]To understand what its like
[00:13.07]But you always gotta
[00:14.15]People always gotta see your smile
[00:15.88]You always gotta put on that fake
[00:17.31]You know what I'm sayin
[00:18.22]like no matter what you just been through
[00:19.45](B-Real)So you wanna be a rap superstar
[00:21.27]And live large a big house
[00:23.02]5 cars, you're in charge
[00:24.90]Comin up in the world
[00:26.42]Don't trust nobody
[00:27.74]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[00:29.95]I remember the days when I was a young kid growin up
[00:32.50]Lookin in the mirror dreamin about blowin up
[00:34.98]To rock crowds make money
[00:36.41]Chill wit the honies
[00:37.33]Sign autographs and whatever the people want from me
[00:39.89]****s funny
[00:40.75]How impossible dreams manifest and the games that be comin with it
[00:44.25]Never the less you gotta go for the gusto
[00:46.43]But you don't know about the blood sweat and tears
[00:48.91]And losin some of your peers
[00:50.13]And losin some of yourself
[00:51.26]Through the years past gone by
[00:52.81]Hopefully it don't manifest for the wrong guy
[00:55.29]Egomaniac in the brainiac
[00:57.29]Don't know how to act
[00:58.68]Shits deep
[00:59.22]48 tracks
[01:00.45]Studio gangsta mack
[01:01.64]Signs a deal, thinks he's gonna make a mil
[01:03.53]But never will
[01:04.23]Till he crosses over still
[01:05.57]Feelin no hate
[01:06.42]But fantasies come wit these
[01:07.98]Shows the sacrifice it takes to make the G's
[01:10.32]You wanna be a rap superstar in the biz?
[01:13.10]And take **** from people who don't know what it is
[01:15.62]I wish it was all fun and games
[01:17.09]But the price of fame is high
[01:18.96]And some can't pay to play
[01:20.41]Trapped in what you rappin about
[01:22.34]Tell me what happened when you lost clout
[01:24.26]The route you took started collapsing
[01:25.93]No fans
[01:26.57]No fame
[01:27.32]No respect
[01:28.00]No change
[01:28.59]No women
[01:29.28]And everyone ****s on your name
[01:30.95](Chorus)So you wanna be a rap superstar
[01:32.67]And live large
[01:33.58]A big house
[01:34.49]5 cars
[01:35.63]You're in charge
[01:36.44]Comin up in the world don't trust nobody
[01:39.13]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[01:41.22]To be a rap superstar
[01:42.85]And live large
[01:43.79]A big house
[01:44.61]5 cars
[01:45.76]You're in charge
[01:46.68]Comin up in the world don't trust nobody
[01:49.28]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[01:51.59](Noreaga Speaking)When you sign to a record label
[01:53.40]You don't know you sign your life over
[01:55.10]And these white boys don't care about you
[01:56.95]'Cuz the minute you fall off
[01:58.16]They'll find another Noreaga
[01:59.50]And they'll find another Capone-n-Noreaga
[02:01.53]And they'll find another B-Real
[02:02.77]So you need to just keep
[02:04.23]Stack your chips up
[02:05.53]Do what you gotta do while your hot
[02:06.97]And mo'****** get out the game
[02:08.35]Stick to the drug game
[02:09.67]And it's even worse than the the drug game
[02:11.85]Because if someone jerks you
[02:12.79]You can shoot em and kill em
[02:14.26]But in this game if someone jerks you
[02:16.13]You gotta be humble
[02:17.10](Eminem Speaking)No matter what you just been through
[02:18.96]Shit has gotta be right
[02:20.12]You gotta approach people
[02:21.65]You gotta be on the up and up
[02:22.69]And everything gotta be all good
[02:24.45]When you see someone slap hands with em
[02:27.03]You know what I'm sayin' give em a pound
[02:28.39]Or whatever it is
[02:29.50]But you always gotta act like it ain't shit
[02:31.84](Chorus)So you wanna be a rap superstar
[02:33.93]And live large
[02:34.80]A big house
[02:35.59]5 cars
[02:36.66]You're in charge
[02:37.60]Comin up in the world don't trust nobody
[02:40.27]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[02:42.39]To be a rap superstar
[02:43.96]And live large
[02:44.92]A big house
[02:45.85]5 cars
[02:46.81]You're in charge
[02:47.91]Comin up in the world don't trust nobody
[02:50.43]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[02:52.33](B-Real)My own son don't know me
[02:53.63]Sittin up in the hotel room lonely
[02:56.24]But I thank God I'm wit my homies
[02:57.60]But sometimes I wish I was back home
[02:59.49]But only no radio or videos
[03:01.92]Cuz they show me no love
[03:03.34]The phony gotta hit the road slowly
[03:05.49]So the record gets pushed by Sony
[03:07.84]I'm in the middle like Monie
[03:09.13]And the press say that
[03:10.09]My own people disown me
[03:11.49]And the best way back
[03:12.65]Is to keep your head straight
[03:14.03]Never inflate the cranium
[03:15.40]Your crew worried about them honies at the Paladium
[03:17.79]Who just wanna cling on and swing on
[03:20.10]And so on and go on and fall off
[03:21.99]The hoes fall off
[03:22.87]To the next rap superstar
[03:24.70]Wit no shame give him a year
[03:26.76]And they'll be right out the game
[03:28.11]The same as the last one
[03:29.50]Who came before him
[03:30.77]Gained fame
[03:31.54]Started gettin ignored
[03:32.74]I warned him
[03:33.42]Assured him
[03:34.01]This ain't easy take it from Weezy
[03:35.69]Sleezy people wanna be cheesey
[03:37.41]They talkin evil
[03:38.42]
[03:43.02](Chorus)So you wanna be a rap superstar
[03:45.22]And live large
[03:46.08]A big house
[03:46.94]5 cars
[03:47.94]You're in charge
[03:49.01]Comin up in the world don't trust nobody
[03:51.47]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
[03:53.72]To be a rap superstar
[03:55.24]And live large
[03:56.22]A big house
[03:57.15]5 cars
[03:58.14]You're in charge
[03:59.18]Comin up in the world don't trust nobody
[04:01.72]Gotta look over your shoulder constantly
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