The Real Thang - Chamillionaire

I gotta be honest

Bragging was really not the mission

Only way that they’ll listen excuse me if you hear a contradiction

Yea I had a chick and

She had gave me a proposition

She was in love till I told her French ain’t my type of kissin'

Them execs was dissin when I walked into that Def Jam audition

Should’ve threw my watch in they face and then said it’s time to listen

Record label switching

Grinding 'cause I didn’t have a pot to piss in Feeling like I was fishin'

It was eating my food inside the kitchen

Before the second album

Sophomore jinx was just superstition

Who would’ve known that they would’ve been right

But I ain’t tripping

Trying to be an artist

While they repaint the composition

I need recognition

Recognize ain’t no competition

They said we wouldn’t make it But now they copying the style that they said would never blow wasn’t no complaining

And now it seems like everywhere I go Steady crawling

On them 4s (still crawling)

On them 4s (still balling)

On them 4s Still crawling on 4s mayne

On them 4s (still crawling)

On them 4s (still balling)

On them 4s

You can copy but you’ll never ever be the real thing

Trying to hit 'em with some knowledge

They gon’respond and say it’s garbage

If I say my cars is Candy they tell ya he the hardest

Look at how you boys is Talking bout cars in they garages

They just mirages if you believe 'em

You’re retarded

I’m gonna grind regardless

Step in your castle steal your crown

Gotta give a pound

KJ and Nancy they still around

And I’m still the deepest

Spend my thesis you still will drown

And that XXL dude that said I would fail

YOU STILL A CLOWN

Can’t get a digit or live it how could you even grade me

I’m the one who pay me Personally give me money daily

Completely crazy

Talk to the streets the streets obey me Go ahead and hate me I don’t give a 'F'like Weezy baby

The Cadillac looking cocky they set a standard to stop me Swagger jackers that copy I think ya swagger is sloppy

I was just a child in the streets till I let Universal adopt me But now I feel like I’m the man

If they ever plannin’to drop me A kitchen drawer wit the flow

'cause I’m sharp as a utensil

Bring any writer I promise I’ll break him like a pencil

Any instrumental

Rappers can’t keep up with my mental

'cause they mental’s simple

While my mental is monumental

Been had potential

Follow me cause of what I went through

While haters jock me Copy my image like a stencil

Don’t try to jack me Give a message to those that sent you

I bet the pistol show up in ya face like it’s a dimple

Smile, cha cha power!

Should’ve betted in my chain

That I’m better than the game

I don’t mean the rapper I mean every rapper that’s in the game

This the little internet nerd that you say that I gotta prove it to Alicia Keys

Keyshia Cole

Oh!

My dough is beautiful

I throw three thousand in the air just to snap a Polaroid

Chamillinate anybody moving you’re so destroyed

Ka-boom!

Say I’m dissin if you don’t know the half

I’m digital download with the dough

You do the math

My money move I get statements so I can view my dollars

A one then a zero

Zero be leapin’all the commas

I can poke I promise

Baby look dope as Pocahontas

In the Bahamas

Counting money in my pajamas