Look, if you had one shot, one To seize everything you wantedone moment Would you it or just let it slip?
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, are heavy There's on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and To drop bombs, but he keeps on What he wrote down, the crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth, but the words come out chokin, how everybody's jokin now The run out, time's up over, bloah! back to reality, oh there goes gravity Oh, there goes rabbit, he He's so mad, but he won't up that Is he? no He won't have it , he knows his back city's ropes It matter, he's dope He that, but he's broke He's so stacked that he When he goes back to his mobile home, when it's to the lab again yo This rap shit He better go capture moment 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 miss chance to blow opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
The soul's escaping, through this hole it's gaping world is mine for the taking Make me king, as we move toward a, new world A normal life is borin, but close to post mortar It only grows harder, only hotter He us all over these hoes is all on him Coast to shows, he's know as the globetrotter Lonely roads, God only He's grown from home, he's no father He home and barely knows his own daughter But hold your nose 'cause here goes the cold water his bosses want him no mo, he's cold product they moved on to the next schmoe who flows He nose dove and sold So the soap is told and unfolds I suppose old potna, but the beat goes on Da da dum da dum da da
No more games, i'ma change you call rage Tear mothafuckin roof off like 2 dogs caged I was playin in the beginnin, the mood all I been chewed up and out and booed off stage But I kept rhymin and stepwritin the cypher Best believe somebody's payin the pied All the pain inside by the fact That I can't get by my 9 to 5 And I provide the right type of life for my family man, these goddam food stamps don't buy diapers And no movie, there's no mekhi phifer, this is my life And these times are so hard and getting even harder Tryin to and water my seed, plus See dishonor caught up bein a father and a donna 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 I've got to formulate a fore I end up in jail or shot Success is my only option, failure's not Mom, I love you, but trail has got to go I grow old in salem's lot So I go is my shot. Feet fail me not 'cause the only opportunity that I got
You can do you set your mind to, man