Before The Fame Lyrics

Yea

I'll sing a rhyme

C'mon!

(Before the fame)

No money, just papers full of rhymes

Sleep by day, discipline by night

(Before)

Look there and look here

On rap's game, keep eyez on me

(Before the fame)

No money, just papers full of rhymes

Sleep by day, discipline by night

(Before)

Look there and look here

On rap's game, keep eyez on me

Big dreamz, no prospects, just DeMarcus James

Yo, just pen on paper, completely outta game

Dead of night, propulsive rhymes, old same

Unknown name, totally unknown, this's before the fame

Dull person wit' a shine in their eyez

When I started to rhyme, time flew by

Motherfuckers eyez down on me, down!

Walkin' down the street wit' their heads down

Bullets flyin', cloudy skies and my niggaz on the ground

Screams that echo in my nightmares even now

Black and white, images and sounds, a big cloud

The wicked way, but it get ready you for life

Before on the street on day, now the big shot on night

(Before the fame)

No money, just papers full of rhymes

Sleep by day, discipline by night

(Before)

Look there and look here

On rap's game, keep eyez on me

(Before the fame)

No money, just papers full of rhymes

Sleep by day, discipline by night

(Before)

Look there and look here

On rap's game, keep eyez on me

Yea-yow, yea, Gateway Center visitor only

And workin' at the car wash all day

Yea, old school used to learn new words way

That's my way, Gangasta in my songs, that's my way

A lot of crumpled papers and others saved like gold

Rapper J. Wall listened to some of my sound and flow

And asked to write just a lil' mo'

"D.M.J. you need an impactful name"

Mentalizin' idols, Biggie and 50 in my mind

Poorly slept nights and this gift get grind

Biggie Down on time (haha)

(Before the fame)

No money, just papers full of rhymes

Sleep by day, discipline by night

(Before)

Look there and look here

On rap's game, keep eyez on me

(Before the fame)

No money, just papers full of rhymes

Sleep by day, discipline by night

(Before)

Look there and look here

On rap's game, keep eyez on me

Dreamin' of being like Curtis or Carmelo Anthony

"Hustler's Ambition" playin' on tape

No bitches, but in activity, I got a date

Ripped jeans, Nike shoes and black shirt of G-Unit

Yea my niggaz, I know how to do it

Old rhymes, slangin' rhymes and new on fire's music

The sun shone and burned the Central Park benches

All I had left were dreams, 'cause there was no Benjamins

(Before the fame, before the fame)

No money, just papers full of rhymes

Sleep by day, discipline by night

(Before)

Look there and look here

On rap's game, keep eyez on me

(Before the fame)

No money, just papers full of rhymes

Sleep by day, discipline by night

(Before)

Look there and look here

On rap's game, keep eyez on me

(Before the fame)

No money, just papers full of rhymes

Sleep by day, discipline by night

(Before)

Look there and look here

On rap's game, keep eyez on me