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Make the Money

Ryan Lewis

The Heist

2012

Classroom of kids, or a venue performing
If I'd had done for the money I'd have been a fucking lawyer
Concrete, vagabond, van telling stories
Humbled by

the bomb and no llama
spitting at a show performing 
vocals are swarming 
flow overflowing like it's global warming 
I flood the market out
I'm over your

And how does it evolve over time?

There's no one right way
To approach creativity, as each artist
Has their own process and
Methods however, in general,

although I don't have much
Huh damn, they got me performing so I be booked now
They tried to break me pick it up built a crown
I was goin through shit while

Yo talent doesn't make you a superstar
I done seen a million artist come
And a million go
I done seen one hit wonders go missing so many times
It'll

THE MILITARY.
MISS BRIGGS: WELL THERE MUST BE SOME ADULT IN CHARGE OF HER!
CARLY: MY OLDER BROTHER, SPENCER.
MISS BRIGGS: OH, YES.  THE ARTIST.
CARLY: HE'S

fame
I den sharpened up as a artist
I improved rapping
I improved writing
I improved working
I improved performing
Even stopped caring 'bout who

the weather is monsoon and
Every artist claims to be woke, to me, they still snoozing
This ain't war, this an exam just to see if you ninja's Chūnin
And it's

of space
Boutta replace
All the niggas who fake yeah they doubted me
Niggas was down we was booked into poverty
Now all the features, the artists, they cry

I go the hardest
If I'm being honest
Don't get me started
I know ima target

I kept me a 40
Before I was an artist

I'm getting dollars
They got

compete with that
But we're all starving artists in some way
Struggling to get paid
Take the late night shift
And I'm still figuring out the subways
Can

Right About Now

Talib Kweli

Right About Now

2005

With supernet and watching square and freestyling every day 
Performing at Lyricist Lounge, ate of the g-brake?
Fuckin with mooders how I met Hi-Tek

Tell Me to My Face

Havoc

13

2013

stop livin' that illusion
The niggas you look up to is under my influence
Yeah, your Grammy artists and your Moonman winners
I'm the reason they even

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I told her that my name is Artist
Now she wanna call me Arty
Telling me about a party
Told her, "I'm the one performing"
Fuck it up

letting you put that Footlocker noback on
Around here
Niggas get shot for performing that song
The hoes cut their eyebrows off
And draw them back on
They're

like an orchid 
N careful of your favorite artist 
Cuz now a days dem sell dem souls to the trends of the market 
cnd now a days respect based

to performing
We don't ramp, every minute, man are touring
Us man are live and dem man are boring
With the effort, blud, we put more in
That's why all

The Hitman

Pharoahe Monch

W.A.R. (We Are Renegades)

2011

the internet is the ring
You trained the artist from queens
Swing me at the fiends?
Def Jam supreme team the same thing
Except more it's more critical now

at the top 
I see the club going crazy every time my record drop 
I see plaques on the wall, glass cases for awards that I done got 
Performing for like

on Bacardi
Time to get it started
All up on the kid
Got your bitch pussy farting
Putting on a show like she performing
At the garden
Then you rang her phone

mumzy, and still find time to be an artist
You can't tell me about grafting
For years I couldn't eat you could say I spent those years fasting
And now it's

the entertainment game
It's really suppose to be
Acting
Actors
Artist
And if you can get some certificate
Are some degrees
Behind yo selling yo self
Makes it all that

on none of these groupies
Bitch I'm too choosy
Go buy a drink cause you ain't getting mine; I ain't floating no floozy
I'm an average artist armed above

words are written in
not even mentioning, that i will never settle when
performing, I'm warning that I'm transforming
to something more than when I'm