Guilty

Lyrics

[Intro] Guilty Am I guilty of it *Yeah ?* *Guilty by association* (Am I guilty of it) * ??? guilty by association* (Am I guilty of it) * Am I, guilty by association* (Am I guilty of it) *My affiliation* (Guilty by association) *But I can heal the nation* (Guilty by association) (Guilty by association) *Why am I* (Guilty by association) *Guilty by association* (Gui-lty by associa-a-tion) *Guilty by associa-* Yeah, yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah [Verse 1] I'm surrounded by the 'bangers I'm surrounded by the gangsters I'm surrounded by the murderers I'm surrounded by the burglars I'm supposed to be a scholar But I dropped up out of college Just to play the block and make them dirty dirty dolla dolla dolla dolla dolla dollas I'm a diamond in the rough I just need a little polish Non-believers blocking my progress But I told my momma I promise I said 'I'm gon' retire you' It'll be all good again It'll be all good again, it coulda been But she lost faith in me When I lost the house I put her in My momma homeless Sleepin' on the floor My momma sleepin' on the floor Can't get what she needed from the store The kids are eating more than we could afford Look at me what you see is a star But I'm in the street with the raw Ain't nobody putting me onna tour Became the guy the industry could ignore Because I be surrounded by real ones That they was afraid of They ain't wanna get stuck with me so I kept hearing that I'm blackballed And the industry niggas ain't fuck with me What you see is just a G that stay sucka free but that ain't everybody cup of tea You sold your soul. What's the fee? It look like a fuckin' paystub to me The DJs in my city don't support But I'm respected my all of my peers I get so lost in my work that my real friends I ain't call them in years Don't spend enough time with my son, when I leave I be leavin' my daughter in tears And my momma still workin' She stand till she cannot walk up the stairs I'm still fighting to be heard I love the music hate the business of it Slim and 50 had some typa issue when my name got caught up in the middle of it I wasn't in the music business yet That was way, way before me Was two grown men business Till this day I don't know the whole story I ain't never ask about it been asked about it I ask ya'll why it gotta be like that I just make music for the people But I don't fuck with the industry like that Cause I got so much talent but ya'll front like ya'll ain't feelin' me like that Well I can't be beat like that I fall down I land on my feet like that That's real [Hook] Guilty by association Guilty by association Guilty by association Guilty by association Am I guilty by association Gui-lty by associa-a-tion Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah Guilty by association Guilty by association Guilty by association Guilty by association Am I guilty by association Gui-lty by associa-a-tion Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah [Verse 2] All I had was two choices Either got to hell or get in prison I elevated different built my dream and put an elevator in it Mamma lookin' in my eye she said she can tell the way I'm livin' I was sellin' weight and ?pushin'? lying like I'm workin' gettin' paid commission, NAH I had to get it Had to get it myself This game is blood sweat God's blessing plus the cash you invest in yourself Then I got a deal with Sony I thought I'd give them the best of myself I gave them the Autografh album That shit got left on the shelf Then I signed a deal with Roc-A-Fella I swear to God I thought we stepped into wealth Dame Dash signed Kanye West and myself But I still got left with the ?help? Just another wound that started bleedin' ??? Cause before the ink dried on that deal? Jay-Z and Dame started beefin' Now again I get caught in the middle Ain't nothin' left to say When they split Kanye left with Jay Out of loyalty I left with Dame Then I signed a deal with Def Jam Thinking all the stress was gettin' swept away But then Jay-Z became president but Jay-Z and Dame beef was left the same Now? That deal fell apart That deal fell apart It was out of my hands It was back to the block hard ?? not in my plans Now I gotta take a stand Got two kids I gotta be a man Gotta feed the fam Then I may break the goons out ??? I had the radio on fire I'm like ? you gotta read the scales! With all these spins that ? didn't ? A PD said this gotta be a scam Somethin's fishy Somebody gotta be blockin' you Somebody gotta be stoppin' you Somebody droppin' new obstacles Somebody knockin' you, huh Somebody lied to you, aw ??? We don't even bond no more Kay Slay put me on, he 'oun' play my songs no more I lost a couple real friends we don't get along no more The weight of the world on my shoulders I don't want it on no more [Bridge] I don't know what to feel I don't know what's right or wrong no more You got any type of heart you know it's not a song no more All I wanted was the love (All I wanted was the love) All I wanted was the lo-ove, yeah All I wanted was the love (That's all I wanted, that's all I NEED) All I wanted was the love (That's all I) I was tryina feed my baby's baby maybe all I wanted was the grub Daddy didn't raise me when I seen him nigga all I wanted was a hug Rap money slow so I'm trappin' nigga all I wanted was the plug Mamma sleepin' on the floor nigga really all I wanted was a rug Guilty A [Outro] Guilty by association Guilty Guilty Guilty by association Guilty by association Am I guilty by association Gui-lty by associa-a-tion