[00:10.49] How can you fairly assess something from the outside looking in? [00:14.64] There's gotta be them times you'll be wrong, know what i mean? [00:18.03] How can a mo'fucker go around and hate a nigga [00:20.83] He never even met, he don't even know and shit? [00:24.08] I think this rap shit is all beef [00:27.97] Y'all don't even know every day I'm living with stress [00:30.75] Got up out the streets you think a nigga could rest [00:33.36] Can't even enjoy myself at a party unless [00:35.96] I'm on the dance floor, hot-ass vest [00:38.04] You think I'm freaking these chicks, right? [00:39.61] I try not to brush against they chest [00:41.56] You get a lawsuit for shit like that, I feel trapped [00:43.91] Swear to everything when I leave this earth [00:46.38] It's gon' be on both feet, never knees in the dirt [00:49.03] You could try me fucka but when I squeeze it hurts, fine [00:51.89] We'll lose two lives, yours and mines [00:54.32] Gimme any amount of time don't let Mrs. Carter grieve [00:56.94] At the funeral parlor dripping tears on my sleeve [00:59.53] Told the judge didn't budge it was him or me [01:02.12] And I ain't trying to be hard but I'm guilty as charged [01:04.76] Put my mercy on this court and my faith in God [01:07.26] And pray hard none of my nephews wanna be stars, lucky me [01:11.46] You only know what you see [01:15.02] You don't understand what it takes to be me [01:20.47] I hate all girls with ulterior motives [01:22.92] That's why I'm twenty plus years old, no sons, no daughters [01:25.69] Hate putting my life in the hands of fake promoters [01:28.13] Hear the hate in my voice, right? I hate that you noticed [01:31.03] Niggas wanna strip you to the bone for shit you own [01:33.47] Hate a nigga like that, faggot, get your own [01:35.99] Hate that I can't roam the street without the clip and chrome [01:38.51] Knowing one day I'ma have to flip, c'mon [01:41.11] You know the shit don't stop 'til the Cris' don't pop [01:43.93] And you have to kill a nigga and your wrist don't lock [01:46.53] I'm trapped, the whole world's against me in fact [01:49.00] But ain't no turning back, bring it on [01:51.69] Hate the price of fame 'cause it cost too much [01:54.27] Can I live without y'all niggas saying I floss too much? [01:56.86] Hate the way you make this hate flow all through us [01:59.54] Steady looking for flaws through us, lucky me [02:03.42] You only know what you see [02:07.27] You don't understand what it takes to be me [02:12.71] Ever since I was 4 years old I been told, everything that glitters ain't gold (you only know what you see) [02:17.43] And now that I've arrived [02:18.54] I see those truths unfold before my eyes in a world so cold (you don't understand what it takes to be me) [02:22.75] And niggas see you in the street, pretend to be friendly [02:25.51] But I know any type of success breeds envy [02:28.05] I know in the back of your mind you're conjuring ways to hem me [02:30.99] Leave my friends in a circle pouring out Henny [02:33.44] But G's is heaven bound so how I'm gon' receive [02:36.06] Anything y'all pour to the ground next time throw it up [02:38.75] And ain't nothing changed so even in my afterlife I show it up [02:42.79] Don't grieve for me, my art remains [02:44.52] Like a dart from the speaker to your heart [02:46.67] Spiritually through the portal now my words is immortal [02:49.18] Don't plan to leave without a fight, I plant a seed I give life [02:51.75] Though I can't see past the girl's greed to call her wife [02:54.47] Next time you're thinking heist better be precise [02:56.81] 'Cause I'm fully prepared, one of us is gon' leave here [02:59.88] I have no regrets even though I won't see grow [03:02.14] My godson Boogie, Sonny and Remo, lucky me [03:05.30] I been told, since I was 4 years old everything that glitters ain't gold (you only know what you see) [03:09.47] And now that I've arrived [03:10.75] I see those truths unfold before my eyes in a world so cold (you don't understand what it takes to be me) [03:15.13] Since I was 4 years old [03:16.71] I been told, everything that glitters ain't gold (you only know what you see) [03:19.65] And now that I've arrived [03:21.11] I see those truths unfold before my eyes in a world so cold (you don't understand what it takes to be me) [03:26.78] You only know what you see [03:30.72] You don't understand what it takes to be me [03:37.27] You only know what you see [03:41.09] You don't understand what it takes to be me [03:47.69] You only know what you see [03:51.77] You don't understand what it takes to be [04:00.00]