Charge It To the Rap Game (Explicit) - Ludacris

Everybody wants the fortune and fame

The more things change

The more they stay the same

This industry is like a crap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game

This industry is like a crap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game

Where do I begin

Well the industry shady not

Everybody is your friend

I had to learn that sh*t the hard way

In and out bogus contracts since before

I was rapping in the hallway

Everyone out for money executives

Out for blood

If you don't keep the music current

Then labels'll pull the plug get it

Hard to admit when sh*t don't go the

Way you plan

While everybody's on instagram just

Fronting like life is brand

Take it back to one of my first tours

F**kin' everything movin' thinkin'

Groupies will never do nothing back to us

Kick 'em out the hotel swearing

I hit my finer things

Lost a bunch of jewelry from

A rolex to a diamond chain b**ch

How in the hell did I get caught slippin'

Meanwhile on all my records

n***a talkin' bout he pimpin'

Maybe I exaggerated a lil bit

You know fake it till you make

It every one of us rappers

Gotta talk a little sh*t

Yeah I done smashed some video

Vixens and some actresses

But brand name P***y don't feel

No different on my matresses

Insecure hoes with breast

Jobs and butt shots

Blaming on us rich niggas

Sponsoring sh*t and what not

Now guys are just as big as

Groupies as these women is

Till you break up and a b**ch

Wonder where her percentage is

While these regular hoes are try

Rying to play the trap game

And now is the time I blame

It on the rap game

Everybody wants the fortune and fame

The more things change

The more they stay the same

This industry is like a crap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game

This industry is like a crap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game

Listen this ain't scripted this reality

It take some *** for us to conquer

This insanity

Thieves using our name promoting

These fake appearances

Publicists overcharging taking

Years for these clearances

I got sued some rappers said

I stole their joint n***a

Spend half a million just to prove a

F**king point n***a

We got the fans thinking rappers never lose

Gave a producer a hundred grand for a beat

I never use d**n

The false stories and being misquoted

In magazines

Got a n***a wanting to go and

Load a couple magazines

Head to your office and shoot

Up the whole f**king staff

Post that on your website and

Burn while I f**king laugh

You protesters at my concerts

Y'all make me sick

I thought I told y'all

I would never disrespect a b**ch

It's clear to see that hip

Hop's under attack man

Or is it cause that no one

Wants to see a rich black man

Really they want us with no money

Hungover and missing flights and

Cutting our show money

Hip hop cops still lurkin' and

Trying to catch us slippin'

And put us in a position to

Make some real life decisions Hmmm

Or do we just be doing dumb sh*t

Emptying out these gun clips

And always on the run sh*t

Lifestyles of us entertaining hood niggas

If it's bad to be a rapper what's good n***a

Everybody wants the fortune and fame

The more things change

The more they stay the same

This industry is like a crap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game

This industry is like a crap game

Sometimes you gotta charge it to the rap game