[Mya:] Try to make it real compared to what?   Oh oh oh oh oh...oh oh oh oh    Sock it to me now      [Common:] They say money make a man strange    Is it money or we dont understand change   Money should be real we campaign If we shoe then just keep your thang thang   Maintain who we are as the gang chains    Everybody wanna star its the same game    I didn't travel this far to do the same thang    It's the trip not the real i was mainstream   Thats whats up      [Mya:] Try to make it real compared to what?   Try to make it reeeeeeal       [Man talks:.....]      [Mya:] oh      [Common:] The real can't be bought   But so taught   And told the boy tryed to keep the records off the sole   On the road to the riches he lost control   By the eye of the needle, I was often told   Disrespect for nothin is far from gold   In your actions all is told      [Mya:] ohh      [Common:] your in the game   You gootta have ball control    You see fame is all a road   New lights actions    Car when the camera snappin    Pop like is it another plan for passion   Are we really real or are we acting    Right through the fake smiles and mask   And rassionalize      [Mya:] Try to make it real compared to what?      [Common:] Some my people keep rockin on    All my people keep rockin on