[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

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[Outro]

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