Rap Superstar

[Eminem speaking]

You know people just don't, people just don't see how much work

is really involved in this rap shit

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 wha' I'm sayin'?

No matter what you just been through

you just gotta be right

CHORUS [B-Real]

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

[B-Real]

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 honeys

Sign autographs and whatever the people want from me

Shit'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

Shits deep

48 tracks

Studio gangsta mack

Sign a deal emcees wanna make a mill, but never will

'til 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 shit 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 rout you took started collapsing

No fans, no fame

No respect, no change

No women and everyone shits on your name

Chorus 2x

[Noreaga speaking]

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

'cause 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're hot

And mafuckin' get out the game

Stick to the drug game and the drug game is even worse

Because if somebody jerk you

You could shoot 'em and kill 'em, and if

In this game if somebody jerk you

you gotta be humble

[Eminem speaking]

No matter what you just been through

Shit has gotta be right

You gotta approach people

You gotta be on the up and up

and everything's gotta be all good

When you see somebody slap hands with 'em

You know what I'm sayin' give em a pound or whatever it is, you know?

But you always gotta act like it ain't shit

Chorus 2x

[B-Real]

My own son don't know me

I'm chillin' in the hotel room lonely

But I thank God I'm wit' my homies

But sometimes I wish I was back home

But only no radio or videos

'cause 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 honeys at the palladium

Who just wanna cling on, swing on, and so on, go on, 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, assured him

This ain't easy take it from weezy

Sleazy people wanna be so cheesy they talkin' evil

Chorus 2x