[00:00.000] (Eminem Speaking) [00:00.830] you know people just don't see [00:03.160] how much work is really involved in this rap **** [00:06.160] I didn't know it [00:07.310] I didn't see it [00:08.110] I never saw it until I was actually in it [00:10.400] You really gotta be in it [00:11.600] To understand what its like [00:13.070] But you always gotta [00:14.150] People always gotta see your smile [00:15.880] You always gotta put on that fake [00:17.310] You know what I'm sayin [00:18.220] like no matter what you just been through [00:19.450] (B-Real)So you wanna be a rap superstar [00:21.270] And live large a big house [00:23.020] 5 cars, you're in charge [00:24.900] Comin up in the world [00:26.420] Don't trust nobody [00:27.740] Gotta look over your shoulder constantly [00:29.950] I remember the days when I was a young kid growin up [00:32.500] Lookin in the mirror dreamin about blowin up [00:34.980] To rock crowds make money [00:36.410] Chill wit the honies [00:37.330] Sign autographs and whatever the people want from me [00:39.890] ****s funny [00:40.750] How impossible dreams manifest and the games that be comin with it [00:44.250] Never the less you gotta go for the gusto [00:46.430] But you don't know about the blood sweat and tears [00:48.910] And losin some of your peers [00:50.130] And losin some of yourself [00:51.260] Through the years past gone by [00:52.810] Hopefully it don't manifest for the wrong guy [00:55.290] Egomaniac in the brainiac [00:57.290] Don't know how to act [00:58.680] Shits deep [00:59.220] 48 tracks [01:00.450] Studio gangsta mack [01:01.640] Signs a deal, thinks he's gonna make a mil [01:03.530] But never will [01:04.230] Till he crosses over still [01:05.570] Feelin no hate [01:06.420] But fantasies come wit these [01:07.980] Shows the sacrifice it takes to make the G's [01:10.320] You wanna be a rap superstar in the biz? [01:13.100] And take **** from people who don't know what it is [01:15.620] I wish it was all fun and games [01:17.090] But the price of fame is high [01:18.960] And some can't pay to play [01:20.410] Trapped in what you rappin about [01:22.340] Tell me what happened when you lost clout [01:24.260] The route you took started collapsing [01:25.930] No fans [01:26.570] No fame [01:27.320] No respect [01:28.000] No change [01:28.590] No women [01:29.280] And everyone ****s on your name [01:30.950] (Chorus)So you wanna be a rap superstar [01:32.670] And live large [01:33.580] A big house [01:34.490] 5 cars [01:35.630] You're in charge [01:36.440] Comin up in the world don't trust nobody [01:39.130] Gotta look over your shoulder constantly [01:41.220] To be a rap superstar [01:42.850] And live large [01:43.790] A big house [01:44.610] 5 cars [01:45.760] You're in charge [01:46.680] Comin up in the world don't trust nobody [01:49.280] Gotta look over your shoulder constantly [01:51.590] (Noreaga Speaking)When you sign to a record label [01:53.400] You don't know you sign your life over [01:55.100] And these white boys don't care about you [01:56.950] 'Cuz the minute you fall off [01:58.160] They'll find another Noreaga [01:59.500] And they'll find another Capone-n-Noreaga [02:01.530] And they'll find another B-Real [02:02.770] So you need to just keep [02:04.230] Stack your chips up [02:05.530] Do what you gotta do while your hot [02:06.970] And mo'****** get out the game [02:08.350] Stick to the drug game [02:09.670] And it's even worse than the the drug game [02:11.850] Because if someone jerks you [02:12.790] You can shoot em and kill em [02:14.260] But in this game if someone jerks you [02:16.130] You gotta be humble [02:17.100] (Eminem Speaking)No matter what you just been through [02:18.960] Shit has gotta be right [02:20.120] You gotta approach people [02:21.650] You gotta be on the up and up [02:22.690] And everything gotta be all good [02:24.450] When you see someone slap hands with em [02:27.030] You know what I'm sayin' give em a pound [02:28.390] Or whatever it is [02:29.500] But you always gotta act like it ain't shit [02:31.840] (Chorus)So you wanna be a rap superstar [02:33.930] And live large [02:34.800] A big house [02:35.590] 5 cars [02:36.660] You're in charge [02:37.600] Comin up in the world don't trust nobody [02:40.270] Gotta look over your shoulder constantly [02:42.390] To be a rap superstar [02:43.960] And live large [02:44.920] A big house [02:45.850] 5 cars [02:46.810] You're in charge [02:47.910] Comin up in the world don't trust nobody [02:50.430] Gotta look over your shoulder constantly [02:52.330] (B-Real)My own son don't know me [02:53.630] Sittin up in the hotel room lonely [02:56.240] But I thank God I'm wit my homies [02:57.600] But sometimes I wish I was back home [02:59.490] But only no radio or videos [03:01.920] Cuz they show me no love [03:03.340] The phony gotta hit the road slowly [03:05.490] So the record gets pushed by Sony [03:07.840] I'm in the middle like Monie [03:09.130] And the press say that [03:10.090] My own people disown me [03:11.490] And the best way back [03:12.650] Is to keep your head straight [03:14.030] Never inflate the cranium [03:15.400] Your crew worried about them honies at the Paladium [03:17.790] Who just wanna cling on and swing on [03:20.100] And so on and go on and fall off [03:21.990] The hoes fall off [03:22.870] To the next rap superstar [03:24.700] Wit no shame give him a year [03:26.760] And they'll be right out the game [03:28.110] The same as the last one [03:29.500] Who came before him [03:30.770] Gained fame [03:31.540] Started gettin ignored [03:32.740] I warned him [03:33.420] Assured him [03:34.010] This ain't easy take it from Weezy [03:35.690] Sleezy people wanna be cheesey [03:37.410] They talkin evil [03:43.020] (Chorus)So you wanna be a rap superstar [03:45.220] And live large [03:46.080] A big house [03:46.940] 5 cars [03:47.940] You're in charge [03:49.010] Comin up in the world don't trust nobody [03:51.470] Gotta look over your shoulder constantly [03:53.720] To be a rap superstar [03:55.240] And live large [03:56.220] A big house [03:57.150] 5 cars [03:58.140] You're in charge [03:59.180] Comin up in the world don't trust nobody [04:01.720] Gotta look over your shoulder constantly