Long Way To The Top

[Verse 1]
Yo kids wanna be in show biz?
Spit flows and grow rich? get
Known and show cliques yo shit’s
What the definition of dope is? well

Go sick hip hop and ya don’t quit
Get a microphone let the flow rip
But coming up there’s gonna be low bits
And where the road dips there’s no glitz

It’s so shit most quit
And would sooner go slit they’re own wrists
With a razor blade than keep slaving
Away on stage unpaid as a vocalist

Cause friends with jobs will own shit
Have a load of kids in their own cribs
While you got faux kicks and a slow whip
And not just cause you aint writ no hits

Cause you might have just wrote this
Opus only to lose ownership to some
Total prick record executive who’ll
Spend your cheques on his coke fix while you’re

Broke as shit, even WITH a global
Hit it don’t matter how dope you spit
Most MC’s won’t grow rich but do
Road trips til they’re tapped out broke and

Homesick so don’t trip
Time at the top goes so quick and there
Ain’t gonna be no foam pits when you
Hit rock bottom it’s stone bricks so

Wanna climb those cliffs to the pro list?
Better go git focussed with the
Highs and lows you gotta cope with you better be
Ready to go for broke bitches it’s a

[Chorus]
Long way to the top if you wanna Hip Hop

[Verse 2]
So let’s say that you actually make it
To the stage you can rap for ya paychecks
When the new kids wanna break necks to
Break next how’s your swag gonna stay ‘fresh’?

At best you got a good five or ten
Years til you rhyme on deaf ears and they’re
Asking that you go pass the bat cause
no-body wanna hear they’re grandfather rap

Then again you could break the mold and go
Gold rapping about how your frail and
Old and be extolled when you prove me
Wrong butb that’s somewhat of a long shot

With the current environs overrun with
Tyrants sex drugs and violence
If you get in the mix and get rich off
Songs you probably won’t live that long

OGs O.D. like ODB
or popped like pac, or BIG
At the hands of an enemy and
AC/DC thought they had it bad in the seventies

And yet there’s never been any scene
More hardcore than hip hop with
Ever-y second G steppin to the M.I.C.
Sent home in a ziplock chasing

Fame in the entertainment game is as
Dangerous as it gets so
If you really want the money and the bitches dog? then
Train to be a vet cause it’s a

[Chorus]
Long way to the top