Note To Self (feat. Playmakin Yella & Versa)

See sometimes man it's like um
We have to take a moment to remind ourselves
Like why we are even doing this shit in the first place
Even now man
I'm in the lab
I'm just

Putting the final touches on another tape
Realest of the real still feel like they love to hate
Must be careful in this field
Filled with nothing but them snakes
Label you a great
I bet you still get shoved away
I've been gone for a while having second thoughts
But the skills I possess something I haven't lost
Paid the cost but the price came with tax
Music with substance I would like to bring it back
They say I'm outdated this a young nigga game
See they kissing ass what you done for the fame
Nigga's selling souls spending funds on a chain
Just to get robbed by them guns that they aim
Forever bringing flames and I do that shit constantly
What the fuck else do these motherfuckers want from me
A catch 22 it's like you win when you're lost
Drop 50 something albums nigga then we can talk
Straight up

A quick reminder this a note to myself
Don't call it quits cause you know it won't help
Yea you know it won't help
Stay on ya grind trying to stack up that wealth
Until the day a nigga take his last breath
Till ya take ya last breath
They want you gone but you're still in the game
Bare ya soul they ain't feeling ya pain
They ain't feeling ya pain
Such a shame I ain't trying to complain
Mane this shit will drive a nigga insane
Ya feel me

I'm the underground version of Kanye
Been doing this shit since way back in the day
Before I touched a drum pad I was on these rhymes
Nigga's didn't even know I freestyled the whole fucking time
I was thinking to myself man I can't be stopped
Use to hustle all my cd's every time my tape dropped
Trying to get the bigger picture
And when I couldn't get the bigger picture
I just poured up a cup of liquor with some swishers
Trying to get my vibe right and if I couldn't
I played the bitch 40 times all night
Just riding in a circle with the street lights
Vibin' with these motherfucking loud pipes
Roaring in my heavy Chevy back in the "D"
Fuck a bitch in the back seat and then I'm back on these beats
Could've been on Def Jam probably made me a star
But I'm a Underground King and my music belong to me

A quick reminder this a note to myself
Don't call it quits cause you know it won't help
Yea you know it won't help
Stay on ya grind trying to stack up that wealth
Until the day a nigga take his last breath
Till ya take ya last breath
They want you gone but you're still in the game
Bare ya soul they ain't feeling ya pain
They ain't feeling ya pain
Such a shame I ain't trying to complain
Mane this shit will drive a nigga insane
Ya feel me

Sophomore year but I spit it like a vet
Yall nigga's gotta know that we up next
We considered as a threat
We done hung around nigga's that'll polka dot ya chest
So nigga wear a vest
Music got me stressed
So I'm smooth sailing in my whip new girl starting to trip
I ain't pressed about a comment nigga
So don't trip yall nigga's get a grip
Yall rappers stay fronting on the gram but never stay equipped
These lyrics that I have come with ammunition
That nigga Flame been a OG in the Bany
But yall don't get it
You say you for the city but you won't support your local artist
Man I don't get it
Versatile what you on
I just stayed low smoking shit
We the realest of the real ain't no way around it bitch
Versa
Ain't no way around it
Da to Ga

A quick reminder this a note to myself
Don't call it quits cause you know it won't help
Yea you know it won't help
Stay on ya grind trying to stack up that wealth
Until the day a nigga take his last breath
Till ya take ya last breath
They want you gone but you're still in the game
Bare ya soul they ain't feeling ya pain
They ain't feeling ya pain
Such a shame I ain't trying to complain
Mane this shit will drive a nigga insane
Ya feel me

LL Cool J speaks