Gerald (feat. Anthony Hamilton)

[00:08.60] You know?
[00:10.72] Yeah
[00:11.66] Am I still the Gerald that I been from the beginnin'?
[00:13.17] Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions
[00:15.95] Should I be rappin', should I be singin'?
[00:17.36] Should he be losin', should he be winnin'?
[00:18.70] Should he keep pitchin' still in the ninth innin'?
[00:24.77] Keep dissin', that's just addin' fuel to my engine
[00:27.43] Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginnin'?
[00:29.80] Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions (yeah, uh, for real)
[00:32.97] Somebody in my life was a best friend to me
[00:35.15] Been a minute since my guy sent a text to me
[00:38.22] It really say somethin', think he's judgin' me
[00:41.20] Feel ten miles apart when you're standin' next to me
[00:43.85] Lifestyles change, people grow apart
[00:46.61] Won't happen overnight, this shit had the slowest start
[00:49.67] Different shit matters when you open up your heart
[00:52.51] Addiction to celebrity could choke you from the start
[00:54.76] Crazier than heroin, yeah, this shit hooks you
[00:57.48] My uncle died of that, my dad told me, that's a good dude
[01:00.49] Never met him, only heard stories where it took you
[01:03.27] And I'm just tryna live up to what they think that I should do
[01:05.91] 'Cause he's got potential, he's that precious
[01:08.53] He's that special, he could be Elvis
[01:11.51] He should be the biggest, he should put his career first
[01:13.92] But no one ever told me, I should go and put me first, yeah
[01:16.78] Am I still the Gerald that I been from the beginnin'?
[01:19.80] Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions
[01:22.55] Should I be rappin', should I be singin'?
[01:25.65] Should he be losin', should he be winnin'?
[01:28.25] Should he keep pitchin' still in the ninth innin'?
[01:30.75] Keep dissin', that's just addin' fuel to my engine
[01:33.38] Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginnin'?
[01:36.42] Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions (yeah, for real)
[01:39.52] How could he feel lonely when he's always surrounded?
[01:42.73] How could he not indulge when he's always around it?
[01:45.48] How come he does drugs, could he still do it without it?
[01:48.23] How could he fly the highest, somehow still stayin' grounded?
[01:51.20] Some days I really feel like, I could've run for president
[01:53.72] Some days I wanna be a self-destructive degenerate
[01:56.43] Gettin' high, wastin' my time, I'm not regrettin' it
[01:59.58] People talkin' 'bout what I should be doin' instead of it
[02:02.27] But this is my life, at night, I go to bed with it
[02:05.15] Got some real demons, can't seem to cut off the head of it
[02:08.09] Pay for my decisions, feel like I just lost a bet with it
[02:10.64] Maybe my success has been goin' straight to my head a bit
[02:13.27] Maybe I been listenin' too much
[02:15.76] Maybe I been drinkin' all the Kool-Aid and fruit punch
[02:18.55] Maybe I got it, just stop tryna find help
[02:20.83] Stop lookin' outside, and look for it in myself (for real)
[02:23.75] Am I still the Gerald that I been from the beginnin'?
[02:26.24] Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions
[02:29.00] Should I be rappin', should I be singin'?
[02:30.56] Should he be losin', should he be winnin'?
[02:35.07] Should he keep pitchin' still in the ninth innin'?
[02:37.81] Keep dissin', that's just addin' fuel to my engine
[02:40.28] Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginnin'?
[02:43.16] Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions (I'm me, for real)
[02:46.31] Rinse, wash, repeat, learn through repetition
[02:48.83] Deliver platinum albums, you take it as a given?
[02:51.31] Songs don't write themselves, how you think they're gettin' written?
[02:54.17] Wanna judge me? Then come trade me my position
[02:56.89] Everyone is talkin', everyone's reactin'
[02:59.59] Take it all for granted, think these things just happen
[03:02.79] Every stop, hoppin' off and on the bandwagon
[03:05.52] Hate the way I'm livin', criticize my actions
[03:07.93] Bought mom's a house, and the town was hella proud of it
[03:11.48] But the next day, I did some shit you got a problem with
[03:14.85] Almost fucked up a deal, was high, and I was out of it
[03:16.64] On a conference call on mushrooms, my words slurred a bit
[03:18.80] 'Mind myself, who I am, all the shit I've done
[03:21.69] Right now, I'm top two sellin' rappers where I'm from
[03:24.82] And I ain't number two, that only leaves one
[03:27.48] I go out the biggest fuckin' artist when I'm done, for real
[03:31.25] Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginnin'?
[03:35.82] (Been from the beginnin', been from the beginnin')
[03:37.31] Ask ten people, you'll get ten different opinions
[03:38.82] (Ten different opinions, ten, ten different opinions)
[03:41.69] Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginnin'?
[03:44.37] (Been from the beginnin', been from the beginnin')
[03:46.75] Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginnin'?
[03:50.94] (I go out the biggest fuckin' artist when I'm done, for real)
[03:54.01] Ha-ha (your side), "These Things Happen Too"
[04:00.96]
[04:16.45] Tell me you'll love me for a million years
[04:28.00] Then if it don't work out
[04:31.58] Then you can tell me goodbye
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