Look, if you had one shot, one To seize everything you ever wantedone Would you capture it or let it slip?
His palms are sweaty, weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface he calm and ready To drop bombs, but he on forgettin What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so He opens his mouth, but the words won't out chokin, how everybody's jokin now The clock's run out, up over, bloah! Snap back to reality, oh there goes Oh, there goes rabbit, he He's so mad, but he won't up that Is he? no He won't have it , he his whole back city's ropes It don't matter, he's He that, but he's broke He's so stacked he knows When he goes back to his mobile home, when it's Back to the lab yo This rap shit He better go capture this and hope it don't pass him
You lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you never let it go You only get one shot, do not your chance to blow opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
The soul's escaping, through this hole it's gaping This world is mine for the Make me king, as we move toward a, new world A normal life is borin, but superstardom's close to mortar It only grows harder, only hotter He us all over these hoes is all on him Coast to coast shows, he's as the globetrotter roads, God only knows He's grown farther home, he's no father He goes home and barely his own daughter But your nose 'cause here goes the cold water his bosses don't want him no mo, he's cold product they moved on to the next schmoe who flows He nose dove and nada So the soap opera is and unfolds I it's old potna, but the beat goes on Da da dum da dum da da
No more games, change what you call rage Tear this mothafuckin off like 2 dogs caged I was in the beginnin, the mood all changed I been chewed up and spit out and booed off But I kept rhymin and stepwritin the next Best believe somebody's the pied piper All the pain amplified by the fact That I get by with my 9 to 5 And I can't provide the right type of for my family 'cause man, these goddam food stamps buy diapers And it's no movie, there's no mekhi phifer, is my life And these are so hard and it's getting even harder to feed and water my seed, plus See dishonor caught up bein a father and a prima mama drama's screamin on and Too much for me to in one spot, another jam or not Has me to the point, I'm like a snail got to formulate a plot fore I end up in jail or shot Success is my only option, failure's not Mom, I you, but this trail has got to go I cannot grow old in lot So I go is my shot. fail me not 'cause maybe the only opportunity that I got
You can do anything you set mind to, man