Gerald (feat. Anthony Hamilton)

You know?

Yeah

Am I still the Gerald that I been from the beginning?

Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions

Should I be rappin', should I be singin'?

Should he be losin', should he be winnin'?

Should he keep pitchin' still in the ninth inning?

Keep dissin', that's just addin' fuel to my engine

Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning?

Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions (yeah, uh, for real)

Somebody in my life was a best friend to mе

Been a minute since my guy sent a tеxt to me

It really say something, think he's judging me

Feel ten miles apart when you're standing next to me

Lifestyles change, people grow apart

Won't happen overnight, this shit had the slowest start

Different shit matters when you open up your heart

Addiction to celebrity could choke you from the start

Crazier than heroin, yeah, this shit hooks you

My uncle died of that, my dad told me, that's a good dude

Never met him, only heard stories where it took you

And I'm just tryna live up to what they think that I should do

'Cause he's got potential, he's that precious

He's that special, he could be Elvis

He should be the biggest, he should put his career first

But no one ever told me, I should go and put me first, yeah

Am I still the Gerald that I been from the beginning?

Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions

Should I be rappin', should I be singin'?

Should he be losin', should he be winnin'?

Should he keep pitchin' still in the ninth inning?

Keep dissin', that's just addin' fuel to my engine

Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning?

Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions (yeah, for real)

How could he feel lonely when he's always surrounded?

How could he not indulge when he's always around it?

How come he does drugs, could he still do it without it?

How could he fly the highest, somehow still staying grounded?

Some days I really feel like, I could've run for president

Some days I wanna be a self-destructive degenerate

Getting high, wasting my time, I'm not regretting it

People talking 'bout what I should be doin' instead of it

But this is my life, at night, I go to bed with it

Got some real demons, can't seem to cut off the head of it

Pay for my decisions, feel like I just lost a bet with it

Maybe my success has been going straight to my head a bit

Maybe I been listening too much

Maybe I been drinking all the Kool-Aid and fruit punch

Maybe I got it, just stop tryna find help

Stop lookin' outside, and look for it in myself (for real)

Am I still the Gerald that I been from the beginning?

Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions

Should I be rappin', should I be singin'?

Should he be losin', should he be winnin'?

Should he keep pitchin' still in the ninth inning?

Keep dissin', that's just addin' fuel to my engine

Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning?

Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions (I'm me, for real)

Rinse, wash, repeat, learn through repetition

Deliver platinum albums, you take it as a given?

Songs don't write themselves, how you think they're getting written?

Wanna judge me? Then come trade me my position

Everyone is talkin', everyone's reactin'

Take it all for granted, think these things just happen

Every stop, hoppin' off and on the bandwagon

Hate the way I'm living, criticize my actions

Bought moms a house and the town was hella proud of it

Booked the next day, I did some shit you got a problem with

Almost fucked up a deal, was high, and I was out of it

On a conference call on mushrooms, my words slurred a bit

Mind myself, who I am, all the shit I done

Right now, I'm top two selling rappers where I'm from

And I ain't number two, that only leaves one

I go out the biggest fuckin' artist when I'm done, for real

Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning? (Been from the beginning, been from the beginning)

Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions (ten different opinions, ten, ten different opinions)

Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning? (Been from the beginning, been from the beginning)

Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning? (I go out the biggest fucking artist when I'm done, for real)

Haha

Your side (these Things Happen Too)

Tell me you'll love me for a million years

Then if it don't work out

Then you can tell me goodbye