Trife Diesel - Wanna Be a Rapper lyrics

If you wanna be a rapper, here's what you do
Make sure your pen game is right
Stay on your P's and Q's
Get your thoughts tightened
Study your craft til it's perfected
If you want to be a hip hop artist
That's well respected
Find somebody you can trust with some paper
Who will invest to hit the studio
And cut a few demos before your record
Learn the business aspects of the game
Cuz alot of niggas
Get beat for they publishing and
Jerked for they chains
See I came in the game as
A younging without a buzz
Had a lot of street cred but
These labels ain't show me love
I had doubt til I hooked up with Toney
He plugged me in
With a few A&R's at the Sony, still in awe
I was still a baby learning to crawl
I remained humble stayed on my hustle and
Didn't fumble the ball
J-Love took notice, I hosted a few tapes
Became the heart of Staten Island
Which needed a new face
Just a taste, a preview
Something I gave the people
I evolved from Da God
Now I'm known as Mr diesel
I was out in M-IA when
Meth recorded The Prequel
Circle House Studios
When he told me the flow is lethal
That was '03, mid-summer, in '04
I was on tour performing in front of crowds
With big numbers hard as they tried
They couldn't deny the kids hunger
Like Jay to Kanye
Face he's like my big brother
Ed Lover, said 'Yo, Trife
Your style is live'
So I made the power switch, from 97 to 105
I'm the definition of real
Peace to the player prize
See you study the game like me
We on the rise
The internet is like the gift and the curse
Some is surviving
But other artists searching for deals
Niggas is striving
Rappers beefing with rappers
Rappers beefing with singers
Niggas stealing lives like they ain't
Got nothing to think of
And that's probably why Nas
Said 'hip hop's dead'
You still wanna be a rapper
Just think of these words I said