歌手: T.I.
时长: 05:12
Hey, the price of fame cost to much[00:00:00]
Like these niggas talk to much[00:00:07]
I'm ready for whatever somebody better tell em'[00:00:09]
Said i'm ready for whatever[00:00:13]
Hey, hey, hey,[00:00:14]
Even thought my head in the clouds i am planted on the pavement[00:00:15]
How i walk around people starring in amazment[00:00:19]
I play alotta game a well-being i ain't playing with it[00:00:21]
They so judgemental man but they don't understand[00:00:26]
If ya life was in jeperady erryday is you tellin me[00:00:28]
You wouldn't need weaponry jus because of ya felony's[00:00:32]
Consider this at least i got errybody sweating me[00:00:34]
On the streets theres people who won't rest unless i rest in peace[00:00:38]
Killed my folk a year ago still in my sleep they threatin me[00:00:42]
Paranoid ya stressin me ain't nobody protecting me[00:00:44]
I'm dealing with the pressure from my partner dieing next to me[00:00:47]
Niggas know i was arrested they coming for me eventually[00:00:51]
This was all the things that i was goin thru mentally[00:00:53]
This could be the reason i ignore the penitentionary[00:00:57]
Not mentioning new orlean niggas comin in the city[00:00:59]
Killin all summer long ain't nobody pay attention[00:01:04]
Now is it that hard to understand if you listen[00:01:06]
Either die or go to jail thats a hell of decision[00:01:10]
But i'm wrong and i know it my excuses unimportant[00:01:13]
I'm just tryna let you know that i ain't think i had a choice, fereal[00:01:15]
I had straps in my ride gotta go to prison[00:01:20]
You waitin on me to die you gone be waiting for a minute[00:01:23]
Boy i'm ready for whateva somebody betta tell em[00:01:26]
I'll be here when the smoke clear and errything settle (fereal)[00:01:28]
Can't afford the price of fame cause it cost too much[00:01:33]
Man these sucka niggas lame and they talk to much[00:01:36]
That why i'm ready for whateva somebody tell em[00:01:38]
I'll be here when the smoke clear and errything settle[00:01:41]
Foreal, foreal, ey foreal, i said when errything settle[00:01:44]
Foreal,ey foreal, ey foreal, ey foreal i said when errything settle foreal[00:01:52]
Ima man i ain't perfect i admit it i'm guilty[00:01:58]
But understand feel me i was riding filthy[00:02:01]
Cuz niggas out there plottin to rob me and kill me[00:02:03]
500,000 erry year spent on security[00:02:08]
My future was bright but now its gettin blury[00:02:10]
Cuz niggas in a hurry to find me and bury me[00:02:14]
But surely God'll deliver me up out it[00:02:17]
Ima fighter till the heart i'll foreva be about it[00:02:21]
Ima father to my sons as it to my community[00:02:24]
Look all that i done my good out weigh the negativity[00:02:26]
Ey mentally i was focused on that littin history reapet itself[00:02:30]
Thats why he was kept in a vicinity[00:02:34]
Yes offically i broke the law but not maliciously[00:02:36]
Through all the publicity was anyone considering[00:02:39]
My position and the logic hidden my decision[00:02:43]
But they caught me wit em now i'm off to prison, PERIOD[00:02:46]
But is it that hard to understand if you listen[00:02:50]
Either die or go to jail thats a hell of decision[00:02:52]
But i'm wrong and i know it my excuses unimportant[00:02:55]
I'm just tryna let you know that i ain't think i had a choice, fereal[00:02:58]
I had straps in my ride gotta go to prison[00:03:02]
You waitin on me to die you gone be waiting for a minute[00:03:05]
Boy i'm ready for whateva somebody betta tell em[00:03:08]
I'll be here when the smoke clear and errything settle (fereal)[00:03:11]
Can't afford the price of fame cause it cost too much[00:03:14]
Man these sucka niggas lame and they talk to much[00:03:16]
Dat why i'm ready for whateva somebody betta tell em[00:03:21]
I'll be here when the smoke clear and errything settle[00:03:23]
Ey i said listen homeboy[00:03:26]
You can talk all you want mayne you know what i'm sayin[00:03:46]
Errybody talking to the king you know what i'm sayin[00:03:49]
They like escalades errybody got one[00:03:51]
But the fact of the matter remain[00:03:53]
If yeaint walk a mile in my shoes and yeaint live a day in my life[00:03:55]
Yeaint survive the sh*t i done survived[00:03:58]
Yeaint had to deal wit the sh*t i had to deal wit homeboy[00:04:00]
You can't muf**kin judge me partner[00:04:03]
I mean look at folk like sean taylor[00:04:04]
You know what they said they said had he had a strap[00:04:08]
He woulda lived today[00:04:13]
You know what i'm sayin[00:04:16]
Now true enough i did wrong i broke the law[00:04:17]
I deserve to be punished i understand that ight cool[00:04:22]
But listen man i gotta house full of kids[00:04:24]
A mama and an old lady who life in my[00:04:26]
Responsibility you dig that!?[00:04:29]
Now for all of yall who think i was jus ridin around on some dumb sh*t[00:04:32]
You know i'm smarter than you man[00:04:36]
You know i'm smarter than you dawg[00:04:41]
Ey if you think i was just being stupid[00:04:43]
Shorty i got some muf**kin ocean front property in Idaho for sale homie[00:04:45]
If you beleive that i gotta bridge in brooklyn i wanna sell you partnah[00:04:48]
Ey man real talk in order to understand my train of thoughts[00:04:53]
You'll have to put yo self in my position[00:04:58]
You can't expect me to think like you cuz my life ain't like yours[00:05:02]
You know what i'm sayin? if you don't understand that you don't[00:05:05]
Understand english i'm done talk?ng![00:05:08]