Guilty

[Intro]
Guilty
Am I guilty of it
*Yeah ?*
*Guilty by association* (Am I guilty of it)
* ??? guilty by association* (Am I guilty of it)
* Am I, guilty by association* (Am I guilty of it)
*My affiliation*
(Guilty by association) *But I can heal the nation*
(Guilty by association)
(Guilty by association) *Why am I*
(Guilty by association) *Guilty by association*
(Gui-lty by associa-a-tion) *Guilty by associa-* Yeah, yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah

[Verse 1]
I'm surrounded by the 'bangers
I'm surrounded by the gangsters
I'm surrounded by the murderers
I'm surrounded by the burglars
I'm supposed to be a scholar
But I dropped up out of college
Just to play the block and make them dirty dirty dolla dolla dolla dolla dolla dollas
I'm a diamond in the rough
I just need a little polish
Non-believers blocking my progress
But I told my momma I promise
I said 'I'm gon' retire you'
It'll be all good again
It'll be all good again, it coulda been
But she lost faith in me
When I lost the house I put her in
My momma homeless
Sleepin' on the floor
My momma sleepin' on the floor
Can't get what she needed from the store
The kids are eating more than we could afford
Look at me what you see is a star
But I'm in the street with the raw
Ain't nobody putting me onna tour
Became the guy the industry could ignore
Because I be surrounded by real ones
That they was afraid of
They ain't wanna get stuck with me so I kept hearing that I'm blackballed
And the industry niggas ain't fuck with me
What you see is just a G that stay sucka free but that ain't everybody cup of tea
You sold your soul. What's the fee?
It look like a fuckin' paystub to me
The DJs in my city don't support
But I'm respected my all of my peers
I get so lost in my work that my real friends I ain't call them in years
Don't spend enough time with my son, when I leave I be leavin' my daughter in tears
And my momma still workin'
She stand till she cannot walk up the stairs
I'm still fighting to be heard
I love the music hate the business of it
Slim and 50 had some typa issue when my name got caught up in the middle of it
I wasn't in the music business yet
That was way, way before me
Was two grown men business
Till this day I don't know the whole story
I ain't never ask about it been asked about it
I ask ya'll why it gotta be like that
I just make music for the people
But I don't fuck with the industry like that
Cause I got so much talent but ya'll front like ya'll ain't feelin' me like that
Well I can't be beat like that I fall down I land on my feet like that
That's real

[Hook]
Guilty by association
Guilty by association
Guilty by association
Guilty by association
Am I guilty by association
Gui-lty by associa-a-tion
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah
Guilty by association
Guilty by association
Guilty by association
Guilty by association
Am I guilty by association
Gui-lty by associa-a-tion
Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah

[Verse 2]
All I had was two choices
Either got to hell or get in prison
I elevated different built my dream and put an elevator in it
Mamma lookin' in my eye she said she can tell the way I'm livin'
I was sellin' weight and ?pushin'? lying like I'm workin' gettin' paid commission, NAH
I had to get it
Had to get it myself
This game is blood sweat God's blessing plus the cash you invest in yourself
Then I got a deal with Sony
I thought I'd give them the best of myself
I gave them the Autografh album
That shit got left on the shelf
Then I signed a deal with Roc-A-Fella
I swear to God I thought we stepped into wealth
Dame Dash signed Kanye West and myself
But I still got left with the ?help?
Just another wound that started bleedin'
???
Cause before the ink dried on that deal?
Jay-Z and Dame started beefin'
Now again I get caught in the middle
Ain't nothin' left to say
When they split Kanye left with Jay
Out of loyalty I left with Dame
Then I signed a deal with Def Jam
Thinking all the stress was gettin' swept away
But then Jay-Z became president but Jay-Z and Dame beef was left the same
Now? That deal fell apart
That deal fell apart
It was out of my hands
It was back to the block hard
?? not in my plans
Now I gotta take a stand
Got two kids I gotta be a man
Gotta feed the fam
Then I may break the goons out ???
I had the radio on fire
I'm like ? you gotta read the scales!
With all these spins that ? didn't ?
A PD said this gotta be a scam
Somethin's fishy
Somebody gotta be blockin' you
Somebody gotta be stoppin' you
Somebody droppin' new obstacles
Somebody knockin' you, huh
Somebody lied to you, aw
???
We don't even bond no more
Kay Slay put me on, he 'oun' play my songs no more
I lost a couple real friends we don't get along no more
The weight of the world on my shoulders I don't want it on no more

[Bridge]
I don't know what to feel I don't know what's right or wrong no more
You got any type of heart you know it's not a song no more
All I wanted was the love
(All I wanted was the love)
All I wanted was the lo-ove, yeah
All I wanted was the love (That's all I wanted, that's all I NEED)
All I wanted was the love (That's all I)
I was tryina feed my baby's baby maybe all I wanted was the grub
Daddy didn't raise me when I seen him nigga all I wanted was a hug
Rap money slow so I'm trappin' nigga all I wanted was the plug
Mamma sleepin' on the floor nigga really all I wanted was a rug
Guilty A

[Outro]
Guilty by association
Guilty
Guilty
Guilty by association
Guilty by association
Am I guilty by association
Gui-lty by associa-a-tion