[Intro: Randy Newman]
CMPLX
Hard times in the city
In a hard town
Hard times in the city
In a hard town
[Verse 1: Foster]
Uh
Goin' through hard times (Hard times)
Tryna make it 'fore I'm twenty-one (Twenty-one)
Most of y'all would lose taste doin' what I'm doin' like you chewin' on some bubblegum (Bubblegum)
And I'm reppin' where I'm comin' from (Where I'm comin' from)
And I'm doin' what you never done (Never done)
I'd say "I came a long way" but I'm certain that's there's plenty more that's soon to come (Soon to come, yeah)
Yeah
Chase your dreams, whatchu runnin' from? (Runnin' from)
Somеtimes you gotta take a risk (Take a risk)
And if you fail, gеt back up and take another one ('Nother one)
That's what it takes to make it big (Make it big)
Uh
And me? I'm workin' 'til I drop (Drop)
Notice the amount of times I said "I'll never stop" (Stop)
I swear I mean that more than I've ever meant anything in my life and that explains the reason I've said it more than twice
We the future
So act like it (Act like it)
Get a job, get a passion, just do somethin' (Do somethin')
I find it really fucked up that most of y'all sit around everyday and just do nothin' (Do nothin')
Damn
Drinkin'-drinkin' ain't a hobby (Drinkin' ain't a hobby)
Smoke-smokin' ain't a hobby (Smokin' ain't a hobby)
So stand up if you're tryna do somethin' with your life, you can meet me in the lobby (CMPLX)
Let's go
[Interlude: Eric Thomas]
He told the guy
He said, "When you want to succeed
As bad as you wanna breathe
Then you'll be successful"
I don't know how many of y'all got asthma in here, today
But if you ever had an asthma attack before
You short of breath
S-O-B, shortness of breath
You wheezin'
*wheeze*
The only thing you tryna do is get some air (CMPLX)
You don't care about no basketball game
You don't care what's on TV
You don't care about nobody calling you
You don't care about a party
The only thing you care about
When you tryna breath
Is to get some fresh air
That's it
And when you get to the point
Where all you wanna do is be successful
As bad as you wanna breathe (CMPLX)
Then you'll be successful
[Verse 2: Foster]
Hard times in the studio (Studio)
Gotta get it man, it's tough, though (Tough, though)
No sleep, but it pays off (Pays off)
'Cause all the fans, man, they love the flow (Love the flow)
And I'm tryna do a hunnid shows (Hunnid shows)
Different city everyday (Every damn day)
But for now I'm still here grindin' like there's no tomorrow (No tomorrow)
Yeah
And I still ain't gettin' paid
Ah!
What you know about the work ethic? (Work ethic)
What you know about a day in the life? (Yeah)
What you know about a young man grindin' e'ryday for the cake and barely gettin' a slice? (A slice)
Nothin' (Nothin')
Y'all don't know shit (Y'all don't know shit)
So all of y'all can hop off my dick (Get off my dick)
And I'ma just do what I do best: (Do best)
Makin' this beat my bitch (My bitch)
Yeah (CMPLX)
Makin' these fans go crazy (Go crazy)
Make 'em do somethin' like this (Somethin' like this)
I'm tryna be an inspiration (Inspiration)
Through the ink from the pen in my fist (In my fist)
Yeah
Not enough time on my wrist (Not enough time on my wrist)
Yeah
Goin' through hard times now, yeah (Now)
But I'm goin' out in bliss, yeah (CMPLX)
[Outro: Eric Thomas]
And I'm here to tell you, number one
That most of you say you wanna be successful
But you don't want it bad
You just kinda want it
You don't want it badder than you wanna party
You don't want it as much as you wanna be cool
Y—most of you don't want success as much as you wanna sleep
Some of you love sleep more than you love success (CMPLX)
And I'm here to tell you today:
"If you're going to be successful
You gotta be willing to give up sleep
You gotta be willing to work off of three hours of sleep
Two hours
If you really wanna be successful, some days, you gonna have to stay up three days in a row
Because if you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful
That's how bad you gotta want it"
50 said that when he wasn't doin' the movie, he was doin' the soundtrack
And they said "When do you sleep, 50?"
"Sleep?" he said, "Sleep?
Sleep is for those people who are broke
Ion sleep
Shit, I got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality" (Become reality)
