Since day one I said fuck the fame and everything it dealt,
But the fame is really here just to facilitate the wealth,
But the wealth attracts you haters like mosquitoes to a well,
And the waters getting deeper so I'm well set out to sail,
Someone called my cell, and left a voice mail,
That said congratulations on the million record sales,
As I'm flipping over furniture Knocking shit off the shelf,
I told myself I'll never get too deep to take a breath,
But I'm sinking,
And it's so hard to breathe, yeah,
And even more so to sleep when no one cares,
It was all I could need,
But now I'm sinking, so deep,
I can't come up for air,
Yeah, I've seen the valley of the shadow of death,
I've seen the mountains, the wild childhood,
That's why I sing about it,
I just try to move on and keep my peace about it,
But come to think about it, I can't even count the days that i've spent,
Starving, tryna find some decent housing,
That's why I'm always smiling,
But on this beat I seem so violent,
So ask me 'bout the music scene,
And what the fuck I think about it,
Time flies, I guess that's why I'm bugging,
Just yesterday I was rapping with my brother and my cousin,
If you had the stove or toaster on, you couldn't use the oven,
We knew that we were struggling we just acted like we wasn't,
It was either make it rapping, If not that than hustlin'
So all I see is magazine covers in this game,
You either surface or you plummet,
It's a thin line and I'm just tryna keep my head above it,
Damn.
And it's so hard to breathe, Yeah yeah,
And even more so to sleep when no one cares,
It was all I could need,
But now i'm sinking, so deep,
I can't come up for air,
Air, I -I -I (I sink away, I sink away)
Get carried away.
And it's so hard to breathe, Yeah yeah,
And even more so to sleep when no one cares,
It was all I could need,
But now i'm sinking, so deep,
Damn, this was never in the plans
But hey, it's a long way from beating pots and pans. X4
But now i'm sinking, so deep
I can't come up for air, air