You Need to Know

[Intro]

If you don't want to hear the truth, then just skip past this one

Keep telling lies because the truth hurt, keep telling lies 'cause the truth hurt

Signed a deal, then they lie about they net worth

You can't make Forbes and have a 360 deal

I know everybody tryin' to get that water deal

Everybody tryin' to get that Rocawear deal

Evreybody tryin' to get that 80/20 deal like I did

[Chorus]

This the realest shit I ever wrote

This the realest shit I ever spoke

This the shit they don't want you to know

But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know

This the realest shit I ever wrote

This the realest shit I ever spoke

This the shit they don't want you to know

But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know

[Verse 1]

They give us one percent, we think we own the team

Signed a record deal but the money don't match a nigga dream

Then they put these rookies against each other

They used to be homeboys, now they tryna to kill each other

Don't even read when they sign these deals

Just head straight to [?] and holler 'Shine these grills'

And when you hot, they gon' let you use their house

And when you not, that's the day they kick you out

While Richard Branson having fun flying in space

These artists out here starving, catching a case

I don't know what they did to Mase

But I heard Ciroc gave Puffy some cake

And these hoes and these jewels'll be a young nigga downfall

They giving like 50 mil' for playin' roundball

Then throw your name in the paper

And make it easy access for the haters

[Chorus]

This the realest shit I ever wrote

This the realest shit I ever spoke

This the shit they don't want you to know

But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know

This the realest shit I ever wrote

This the realest shit I ever spoke

This the shit they don't want you to know

But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know

[Verse 2]

They got financial advisors just to pay their bills

Dre hit with Beats, now every rapper want that deal

How you gon' make 50 mil' and go kill a nigga?

Too many steroids, damn you a silly nigga

Now these athletes want to be rappers

These rappers make a lil' money and they want to be trappers

Buy a phantom and don't have no house

These niggas backwards from the inside out

And y'all want to be Kobe 'cause he own the team

I'm tryna be the white boy that own the league

And I pledge allegiance to the American dream

And educated myself so they won't kill my dreams

I'm glad Nike gave Lebron a 100 mil'

But took that same endorsement, turned into a couple of bills

And rappers losing to these sponsors

Reality shows think you creating stars, they making monsters

[Chorus]

This the realest shit I ever wrote

This the realest shit I ever spoke

This the shit they don't want you to know

But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know

This the realest shit I ever wrote

This the realest shit I ever spoke

This the shit they don't want you to know

But if you gettin' money, this the shit you need to know

[Outro]

Why we doin' 360 deals when it's so much technology out there

We could do our own shit?

And why you athletes hookin' up with business niggas

That never even made money before, to watch your money?

Shit don't make no sense

This the realest shit I ever wrote, wake up man, sign your own check

Invest like one-third of your money just in case you need that for a rainy day

You feel me? These strip clubs and cars don't hold no value, that's a bad investment

You fall down, you get back up, that's how hustlers do it

And if you could help your people, you help them

You don't let them starve, you never know who might be the next you, nigga

You get a lot of friends when you got money

But when you don't have shit, ain't nobody gon' fuck with you

Listen to what I'm sayin' man, don't let this be you

And don't let no nigga kill your dreams man

Your never too old, never too young

To be able to make music or do what you want to do

You ever seen a rich PD or on-air personality, anybody ever check their salary?

Muthafuckas always tryin' to kill a nigga dream

Man don't worry about no radio, I ain't never worried about gettin' my songs on the radio

Get your shit in the streets to your people

Nigga get out there and hustle, do what you do, man

Stop all that fuckin' crying, nobody give a fuck about you

Everybody got a problem, nigga, do you

Fuck these haters, stop fuckin' with all these broke hoes

Find you somebody with an education or a job, somebody that could help you

Say you hang around a bunch of broke muthafuckas then you broke

You hang around rich muthafuckas then you rich