[00:00.000] 作词 : Jeremie Pennick/Chauncey Hollis
[00:00.570] 作曲 : Jeremie Pennick/Chauncey Hollis
[00:01.141]Uh
[00:06.861]Let me break this shit down, make it simple for you ****
[00:09.679]Yo, uh-huh
[00:10.852]I remember standing on that block
[00:12.879]Just like yesterday
[00:13.861]Uh-huh
[00:14.133]D's pull up with the captain, then I run
[00:16.452]I tuned the street shit into corporate
[00:18.537]A pot to a office, I give you How To Be a Rapper 101
[00:21.966]First, you gotta be nice with it
[00:23.527]I built my shit ciphering
[00:25.096]Long hours in dark studios, that was the price of it
[00:27.902]Syllables, details, Spoon's house where I tightened it
[00:30.149]Uh-huh
[00:30.780]Then I got so nice, I looked up and I wasn't writing it
[00:33.651]Closer to your dream now, you ready for a team now
[00:36.353]**** who keep you focused the only ones you should be 'round
[00:39.343]I chose the hustlers who was with me holding the streets down
[00:42.244]We making dope money off of a MP3 file
[00:45.168]Now you go crazy
[00:46.417]You make the streets hot
[00:47.499]They should be playing your shit out every car, and every weed spot
[00:50.502]Every club, every barbershop till everything's locked
[00:53.160]Make sure when the people speak your name that everything stop
[00:56.374]Now look at you, you lit
[00:57.580]You getting twenty for a feature
[00:59.361]Your old hoes gotta hit your manager to reach ya
[01:02.121]Your **** think you changed, nah, that change made you a thinker
[01:04.975]You seen this game break the best of 'em, it's getting deeper
[01:07.579]Remember to stay grounded, don't let 'em make you 'to a diva
[01:10.794]You know them little traps be in the rap beefs and leeches
[01:13.554]The Jack boys'll sneak yas, them tax boys can see ya
[01:16.285]Get security and lawyers, then enjoy it with your feet up
[01:19.350]Got the labels calling you
[01:20.723]They fly you out to talk to you, lowballing you
[01:22.974]And kinda still doubt if they could market you
[01:25.089]Turn it down and show 'em that your number was unarguable
[01:27.889]And when they double back, you charge 'em triple what they offered you
[01:30.899]This how you rap
[01:31.721]They probably thought this was a coke song
[01:33.464]'Cause so far, I been the industry's Omar
[01:35.643]Turned this shit into "Snowfall"
[01:37.284]Go off every chance that I get, I guess I'm a showoff
[01:40.112]Flow on any beat that you play, I feel like I showed y'all
[01:42.939]When I was up-and-coming, I had your favorites up and running
[01:45.563]Had 'em dodging features with me, when my album drop, they ducking
[01:48.413]I do press runs, they get quiet, around that time I don't hear nothing
[01:51.188]When they drop, I'm in they city, I'm outside like I been hunting
[01:54.056]Boss shit, investing my own paper now like, "**** it"
[01:56.989]Built another source of income 'cause rap alone won't cut it
[01:59.784]Don't leave no money on the table, let's meet and discuss the budget
[02:02.681]If they let me go today, my own career, I could fund it
[02:05.528]How they gon' weigh out your legacy? How the critics gon' judge it?
[02:08.378]Is your chapter gon' be legendary status when they shut it (Huh?)
[02:11.604]Some word delivery, add in some versatility
[02:14.237]Double your workability
[02:15.605]And now you know how to be a rapper
[02:16.639]Remember standing on that block
[02:18.594]Just like yesterday
[02:19.818]D's pull up with the captain, then I run
[02:22.102]I tuned the street shit into corporate
[02:24.267]A pot to a office, I give you How To Be a Rapper 101
[02:27.915]I remember standing on that block
[02:30.031]Just like yesterday
[02:31.255]D's pull up with the captain, then I run
[02:33.574]I tuned the street shit into corporate
[02:35.706]A pot to a office, I give you How To Be a Rapper 101
[02:38.990]Ah, ****