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Intro

(a little kid)Daddy is that your car on TV

(Ludacris)you better belive it is baby

Now go in the other room

There about to be some grown fokes talkin here

Ok Alright

Thangs aint always what they seem or cracked up to be

Like all these fakin ass rappers in this industry

Talkin bout what they got and they dont got a damn thang

How you own three cars but you dont own your own name

Get your buisness right boys the first class is in session

Get an entertainment lawyer in the music profession

Start up your own company trademark the name

Thats gunna run you bout a grand so start savin your change

Open a bank acount quick a then follow these steps

Sign yourself to yourself and start signin your own check

Hit the booth and start recording at the speed of need

Whatever gets your juices flowin could be speed or weed

Get it mixed and mastered pressed up and plastered

Sell it to your whole hood out the trunk you bastered

Show all the non belivers what your destined to be

And in just a couple years you could be rich like me

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I cant hold my tounge(Ima tell it like it is)

This buiz aint all fun(Ima tell it like it is

Give it to you straight no taste(Ima tell it like it is)

Look you straight in your face and Ima tell it like it is

See mostly all your favorite artist got some serious problems

But money could be the problem but money cant solve 'em

Some get adicted to drugs and flat out lazy

Some taste a little fame and go flat out crazy

Im close cause those close wanna live off my fame

And that type of shit alone will drive a nigga insane

Not to mension all the vulters the scandaless promoters

Crabs'll try to sue ya magazines'll misquot ya

Most of these lable heads they dont care nothin about ya

If ya stop sellin records they'll act like they dont know ya

Its hard mixin buisness with pleasure so dont play

Me and my crew argue and fight like every other day

Rappers aint above the law but our life is so fast

That we got a speacial task force of police on our ass

All that and this really just a start of it

"Hip-Hop" you really wanna be apart of it

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Whats worse than havin no money is havin it and losin it

Whats worse than havin some money is grabbin and abusin it

We never took no money from Chingy thought i was cool wit em

I wish his ass well but i dont want nothin to do with em

Some donate and publishin me i dont fool with em

Im down for my artist try my best to stay true to em

Cause outside my lable comptition is arellevent

Unless im still in compitition with my president

And belive that Im support the hover

Cause the industry Shady it needs to be taken over

But the first rule to acumulation the wealth

Is dont trust nobody but your goddamn self

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Outro

(a little kid)Daddy are you finished with grown folk talk

(Ludacris)Yea baby you can come back in here

You know I love you right

(a little kid)And i love you always