What Is Success

When I was younger, I saw success as being number 1 Money
Buy a house, then invest in another one
Making sure my lady and my momma they'll want for nothing
Comfortable, stable, powerful and cumbersome
But when some things work out, here come a set back
Cant even make half of what I said on said track
Use to sell stacks now a brother just derail tracks
Caught up in a problem but success is like a death trap
What happens when your mom die before you get the house
Spending time away from home but you can't forget ya spouse
Cant even seek peace the fans wanna meet me
And act like I'm supposed to be perfect every day, each week
I see success as the definition deceive me
Everybody with it, depression hitting em' deeply
Either on drugs, you do a bid, or suicide
Or they paint em' out to be a lunatic to you and I
Temptation got these niggas cheating on your foolish bride
I call her foolish for a reason, cus she doing time
It's like she stuck with a nigga that cant care
Like a black man stuck in a system that ain't fair

What is success, when your goals is gold
Don't let the success rate control your soul
What is success, making enough bread to take care
Don't let em' use you dawg, it ain't fair
Success can take away ya freedom and sanity
You obligated to pay for the peace in humanity
If money is power, it corrupt absolutely
But making it knowledge is what I does with a loose-leaf

She still staying cus the money is right
But if he lose it, he'll be the one who lonely at night
Now she got a new friend who a homie, aight
When you gone, call him when she horny and nice, tight
And your family will say you a bitch
If they think you getting dough but ain't making em' rich
Not knowing that your lifestyle a major expense
And with the paper you making you barely staying content
You got a mortgage, taxes, lease and insurance
On everything in life, but peace and endurance
If anything the stress ah make you break a lot faster
You die, then they rich, so they pray to out last ya

It's hard to find a loved one when you rich
Want your money and ya energy and plus benefits
Ain't no love in this shit, from ya bruh or your sis
Mom, dad, uncle, auntie, ya cuz or ya bitch
And It's nothing to miss, but don't give up, let's switch it up
Being successful is in the mind with plenty love
Doesn't mean money for people to leech off
Success is my words eventually reach all
And I can change lives by speaking my piece dawg
The flavor of success, they call it elite sauce
So we can break bread cus me and my team boss
Ain't no more suckas cut from a rugged and mean cloth
Our fabric is free from judgment and weak loss
We finally made it, cus my mother in peace dawg
Finally made it, cause my mother in peace y'all
I ain't gotta say it in threes y'all

What is success, when your goals are gold
Don't let the success rate control your soul
What is success, making enough bread to take care
Don't let em' use you dawg, it ain't fair
Success can take away ya freedom and sanity
You obligated to pay for the peace in humanity
If money is power, it corrupt absolutely
But making it knowledge is what I does with a loose-leaf