Hey, the price of fame cost too much
Like these ni**as talk too much
I`m ready for whatever, somebody better tell `em
Said, I`m ready for whatever, hey, hey, hey

Even though my head in the clouds I`m planted on the pavement
How I walk around people starin` in amazement
I play a lotta game, a well being I ain`t playin` with it
They so judgmental man, but they don`t understand

If ya life was in jeopardy erryday is you tellin` me
You wouldn`t need weaponry just because of ya felony`s
Consider this at least I got errybody sweatin` me
Homies streets is people who won`t rest unless I rest in peace

Killed my folk a year ago still in my sleep they threatin` me
Paranoid, ya stressin` me ain`t nobody protectin` me
I`m dealing with the pressure from my partner dying next to me
Ni**as know I was arrested, they coming for me eventually

This was all the things that I was goin` through mentally
This could be the reason I ignore the penitentiary
Not mentionin` New Orlean ni**as comin` in the city
Killin` all summer long ain`t nobody pay attention

Now is it that hard to understand if you listen
Either die or go to jail that`s a hell of decision
But I`m wrong and I know it my excuses unimportant
I`m just tryna let you know that I ain`t think I had a choice

I had straps in my ride gotta go to prison
You waitin` on me to die you gon` be waitin` for a minute
Boy, I`m ready for whateva, somebody betta tell `em
I`ll be here when the smoke clear and errythin` settle

Can`t afford the price of fame `cause it cost too much
Man these sucka ni**as lame and they talk too much
That why I`m ready for whateva, somebody betta tell `em
I`ll be here when the smoke clear and errythin` settle

Foreal, foreal, ey foreal, I said when errythin` settle
Foreal, ey foreal, ey foreal, ey foreal
I said when errythin` settle foreal

I`mma man, I ain`t perfect, I admit it I`m guilty
But understand feel me, I was ridin` filthy
`Cause ni**as out there plottin` to rob me and kill me
500,000 erry year spent on security

My future was bright but now it`s gettin` blury
`Cause ni**as in a hurry to find me and bury me
But surely God`ll deliver me up out it
I`mma fighter till the heart, I`ll foreva be about it

I`mma father to my sons, asset to my community
Look all that I done my good out weigh the negativity
Ey, mentally I was focused on not lettin` history repeat itself
That`s why heat was kept in the vicinity

Yes, officially I broke the law but not maliciously
Through all the publicity was anyone considerin`
My position and the logic hidden my decision
But they caught me wit `em now I`m off to prison, period

But is it that hard to understand if you listen?
Either die or go to jail that`s a hell of decision
But I`m wrong and I know it my excuses unimportant
I`m just tryna let you know that I ain`t think I had a choice

I had straps in my ride gotta go to prison
You waitin` on me to die you gone be waitin` for a minute
Boy, I`m ready for whateva, somebody betta tell `em
I`ll be here when the smoke clear and errythin` settle

Can`t afford the price of fame `cause it cost too much
Man these sucka ni**as lame and they talk too much
That why I`m ready for whateva, somebody betta tell `em
I`ll be here when the smoke clear and errythin` settle

Foreal, foreal, ey foreal, I said when errythin` settle
Foreal, ey foreal, ey foreal, I said when errythin` settle foreal

Foreal, foreal, ey foreal, I said when errythin` settle
(Ey I said listen homeboy)
(You can talk all you want mayne you know what I`m sayin`)
Foreal, ey foreal, ey foreal, I said when errythin` settle foreal
(Errybody talking to the king you know what I`m sayin`)
(They like Escalades errybody got one)

But the fact of the matter remain
If ya ain`t walk a mile in my shoes and ya ain`t live a day in my life
Ya ain`t survive the s**t I done survived
Ya ain`t had to deal with the s**t I had to deal with homeboy

You can`t mutherf**kin` judge me partner
I mean look at folk like Sean Taylor
You know what they said they said had he had a strap
He woulda lived today, you know what I`m sayin`

Now true enough I did wrong I broke the law
I deserve to be punished I understand that aight cool
But listen, man, I gotta house full of kids
A mama and an old lady who life in my
Responsibility, you dig that?

Now for all of y`all who think I was just ridin`
Around on some dumb s**t
You know I`m smarter than you man
You know I`m smarter than you dawg

Ey if you think I was just being stupid
Shorty, I got some mutherf**kin` ocean front property
In Idaho for sale, homie
If you believe that I gotta bridge in Brooklyn I wanna sell you partnah

Ey man real talk in order to understand my train of thoughts
You`ll have to put yo self in my position
You can`t expect me to think like you
`Cause my life ain`t like yours you know what I`m sayin?
If you don`t understand that you don`t understand English, I`m done talkin`