So you wanna be a rock superstar   And live large   Your big house, five cars   You’re in charge   Comin’ up in the world don’t trust nobody   Gotta look over your shoulder constantly      I remember the days when I was a young kid, growin’ up   Lookin’ in the mirror, dreamin’ about blowin’ up      The rock crowd, make money   True with the honeys    Sign autographs or whatever the people want from me   Shit’s funny      How impossible dreams manifest   And the games that be comin’ with it, nevertheless      You gotta go for the gusto   But you don’t know      About the blood sweat and tears   And losin’ some of your fears      And losin’ some of yourself to the years past, gone by   Hopefully it don’t manifest for the wrong guy      Egomaniac in the brainiac   Don’t know how to act   Shit’s deep, 48 tracks   Studio gangsta max      Signed the deal thinks he’s gonna make a mil   But never will ‘til he crosses over, still      Fillin’ your head with fantasies   Come with me   Show the sacrifice it takes to make the Gs      So you wanna be a rock superstar, in the biz   And take shit from people who don’t know what it is      I wish it was all fun and games   But the price of fame is high and some can’t pay the way      Feel trapped in what you rappin’ about   Tell me what happened when you lost cloud      What route you took started collapsin’      No fans, no fame   No respect, no change,   No women and everybody shits on your name      So you wanna be a rock superstar   And live large   Your big house, five cars   You’re in charge   Comin’ up in the world don’t trust nobody   Gotta look over your shoulder constantly   To be a rock superstar   And live large   Your big house, five cars   You’re in charge   Comin’ up in the world don’t trust nobody   Gotta look over your shoulder constantly      You ever have big dreams   Of makin’ real cream   Big shot heavy hitter on the mainstream      You wanna look shanty   In the Bentley    Be a star bam never act friendly      You wanna have big fame   Let me explain   What happens to these stars and their big brains      First they get played like all damn day   Long as you sell everything will be ok      Then you get dissed by the media and fans   Things never stay the same way they began      I heard that some nigga gave full to the fullest   That’s why foos end up dining on the bullet      Think everything’s fine in the big time   See me in my lace with the chrome ring shine      So you wanna go far and live large   It ain’t all that goes with bein’ a rock star      So you wanna be a rock superstar   And live large   Your big house and five cars   You’re in charge   Comin’ up in the world don’t trust nobody   Gotta look over your shoulder constantly   To be a rock superstar   And live large   Your big house and five cars   You’re in charge   Comin’ up in the world don’t trust nobody   Gotta look over your shoulder constantly      My own son don’t know me   I’m chillin’ in the hotel room lonely   But I thank God I’m with my holmies   But sometimes I wish I was back home   But only no radio or video’s gonna show me   No love, they’re phony   Gotta hit the road solely   So the record gets pushed by Sony   I’m in the middle like mony   And the press say that   My own people disown me   And the best way back      Is to keep your head straight, never inflate the cranium   You’re too worried about them honeys at the Peladium      Who just wanna cling on, swing on   And so forth, go on, fall off, the whole foot long      To the next rock superstar, with no shame   Give him a year and they’ll be right out the game      The same as the last one who came before him   Gained fame started gettin’ ignored, I warned him   Assured him      This ain’t easy   Take it from Wheezy   Sleazy people wanna be so cheesy   They’re fuckin evil      So you wanna be a rock superstar   And live large   Your big house, five cars   You’re in charge   Comin’ up in the world don’t trust nobody   Gotta look over your shoulder constantly   To be a rock superstar   And live large   Your big house, five cars   You’re in charge   Comin’ up in the world don’t trust nobody   Gotta look over your shoulder constantly