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This is real life The only one we get to live I remember being broke and thinking something's gotta give This is real life Everything we do is legendary And we gone' do it till the day we in the cemetery Real life, it feel like I'm dreaming Used to feel like I was nothing and now my life has meaning Said this is real life God damn this is real life Uh, yeah I been feenin' for this moment I been dreaming bout this moment I guess this is how it feel to have everything you ever wanted Writing these records like a dissertation While the fans going crazy from anticipation Damn, 9 years that's a lot of patience And now I'm looking at my idols and feeling adjacent This a hell of a long way from back in the basement Looking at hip hop tryna find my placement I bought my first pair of Jordans at 22 Same year I bought a crib too Now my face in magazines I used to flip through And my music on all the sites I used to sift through Remember meeting Nas for the first time Shook his hand then he started quoting my lines? Said he a fan, God damn this is my time Imma get it Imma do it till we prime time I told 'em every single day that I'd be at it In the studio recording like an addict He said that real hip hop shit I had it Thinking to myself damn man you made Illmatic This is real life The only one we get to live I remember being broke and thinking something's gotta give This is real life Everything we do is legendary And we gone' do it till the day we in the cemetery Real life, it feel like I'm dreaming Used to feel like I was nothing and now my life has meaning Said this is real life God damn this is real life I used to wonder what it feel like Alright, I guess we back again With another verse about how much I'm black again You don't like it blame God for the packaging Bringing up my race, don't call me a white rapper then Damn, they judging me by my skin tone Instead of my talent man these mother fuckers been wrong But it's all good I just thought I'd address it And spell it out for people so they can finally assess it This is dedicated to anyone with a dream And a realization of what following it means Breaking the cycle and not following your genes That perfect moment when your logic intervenes And lets you know that everything ain't always what it seems But if you really looking I promise you'll find your dream This is everything I ever wanted Half od y'all won't get it The other half will probably laugh and wonder how I did it I just spit it from my mind One word at a time Take everything I'm going through and put it in a rhyme I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a lot of weight up on my shoulders But this is my therapy as I flow this Spilling out my heart I just hope somebody notice I been real from the start and you mother fuckers know this Once my name elevated that's when the fame escalated But on the real I've grown accustomed to the stares People watching every move I make like it was theirs All up in my business and even my personal affairs Now, I know I talk a lot of game but I ain't tryna sell you Cuz honestly I could show you better than I could tell you And even though theres been moments when everything had fell through We kept it moving assuming even the greatest fell too I swear this business shit is do or die I never contemplated suicide I'm too alive In front of thousands but I'm talking like it's you and I And every day fewer find their dreams because fewer try This is real life The only one we get to live I remember being broke and thinking something's gotta give This is real life Everything we do is legendary And we gone' do it till the day we in the cemetery Real life, it feel like I'm dreaming Used to feel like I was nothing and now my life has meaning Said this is real life God damn this is real life I used to wonder what it feel like Oh, said welcome to forever Welcome to forever Welcome to forever |