You Need To Know-Master p

You Need To Know - Master p If you don't want to hear the truth, then just skip past this one Keep telling lies because the truth hurt, keep telling lies cause the truth hurt Signed a deal, then they lie about they net worth You can't make Forbes and have a 360 deal I know everybody tryin' to get that water deal Everybody tryin' to get that Rocawear deal Evreybody tryin' to get that 80/20 deal like I did [Hook 2x] This the realest sh*t I ever wrote, This the realest sh*t I ever spoke This the sh*t they don't want you to know, But if you get money, this the sh*t you need to know They give us one percent, we think we own the team Signed a record deal but the money don't match a ni**a dream Then they put these rookies against eachother They used to be homeboys, now they tryin' to kill eachother Don't even read when they sign these deals Just head straight to -- and holler 'Shine these grills' And when you hot, they gone let you use their house And when you not, that's the day they kick you out While Richard Branson havin' fun flying in space These artists out here starvin' catchin' a case I don't know what they did to Mase but I heard Ciroc gave Puffy some cake And these hoes and these jewels be a young ni**a downfall They givin' like 50 mil for playin' roundball Then throw your name in the paper and make it easy access for the haters [Hook 2x] They got financial advisors just to pay their bills Dre hit with Beat now every rapper want that deal How you gone make 50 mil and go kill a ni**a Too many steroids damn you a silly ni**a Now these athletes want to be rappers These rappers make a little money and they want to be trappers Buy a phantom and don't have no house These niggas backwards from the inside out And yall want to be Kobe cause he own the team I'm tryin' to be that white boy that own the league And I pledge allegiance to the American dream And educated myself so they won't kill my dreams I'm glad Nike gave Lebron a 100 mil but took that same endorsement Turned into a couple of bils And rappers losin' to these sponsors Reality shows think you creatin' stars, they makin' monsters I ain't tryin' to be the beats to your headphones [Hook 2x] Why we doin' 360 deals when it's so much technology out there We could do our own sh*t and why you athletes hookin' up with business niggas That never even made money before, to watch your money, Sh*t don't make no sense This the realest sh*t I ever wrote , Wake up man, sign your own check Invest like one-third of your money just in case you need that for a rainy day You feel me, these strip clubs and cars don't hold no value, that's a bad investment You fall down, you get back up, that's how hustlers do it And if you could help your people, you help them You don't let them starve, you never know who might be the next you You get a lot of friends when you got money But when you don't have sh*t, ain't nobody gone f**k with you Listen to what I'm sayin' man, don't let this be you And don't let no ni**a kill your dreams man Your never too old, never too young To be able to make music or do what you want to do You ever seen a rich PD or on-air personality, Anybody ever check their salary Muthaf**kas always tryin' to kill a ni**a dream Man don't worry about no radio, I ain't never worried about gettin' my songs on the radio Get your sh*t in the streets to your people Ni**a get out there and hustle, do what you do man Stop all that f**kin' cryin' nobody give a f**k about you Everybody got a problem ni**a, do you, f**k these haters Stop f**kin' with all these broke hoes Find you somebody with an education or a job, somebody that could help you Say you hang around a bunch of broke muthaf**kas then you broke You hang around rich muthaf**kas then you rich