Track 7 from Kano’s mixtape “Beats & Bars”. Kano raps about being famous, but still being around drug dealers, and gangsters from the Ends.
[Snippet of Jay Z taken from Big L & Jay Z Stretch & Bobbito Freestyle]
As soon as I grab it, I eat it up like a savage
And no I don't have it, I get it together like a marriage
I'm seeking all rappers, I'm on my p's and q's and carrots
(Repeats) I'm seeking all rappers, I'm on my p's and q's and carrots
Y'all don't understand, well, god-damn, don't you know my status
[Intro: Kano]
Things just ain't the same for gangsters
What can I do for a living?
Yo, how can I eat for a living?
[Verse 1: Kano]
Yo, yo, things just ain't the same for MC's
But I'm a little too famous to shoot up M3's
But there's a lot of haters, thieves and enemies
And even in the ends there's greed and envy
It's like I can't make P's to better me cos
More money more beef, more honeys more grief
More G's the more the street keeps watching me
And I ain't got no chain, bracelet or watch on me
I got the blade and the 9 already cocked on me
And the yards armed, it's hot property
I'm going out like Scarface, no dropping me
And I can't listen to MC's there's no honesty
Only a few don't copy me, only a few
Can roll in my shoes and bop in another ends
And see why I feel hot in another ends
I heard my buddy, then got me another friend
Like G said they're wanna put me to the test
I'll kill before they're putting me to rest, I will
And fuck booking me I'm ghosting a minute, I'm chilling
And I ain't got a mill but I'm blessed
The streets is watching, heat is cocking, squeeze I'm popping
While I'm blowing up my peeps are still blotting
It's real in the ends, it's real round here
Signed a deal but I'm still round here
Blood I'm still in the ends
And I'm around dealers from 10's to 10 boxes
With big beamers and benz'
And still little pricks want to squeal to the feds
I ain't bait I ain't feeling a 10
Wheel and come again, I ain't bait I ain't feeling a 10
I'm great with a liper, nice pair of Fila's or Nike Airs
Got the three stripes on lock
I'll be Going in the office coming out with like 5 pairs
So, naturally niggers wanna hate me
Niggers see the Maharishi on me and they still got an AV
And we leave the club with half the capacity
And girls at the hotel massaging my back and feet
Things just ain't the same for Kano
I came on the TV and came off radio
Now you can book me it just ain't for the same dough
I'll soon be on that Jigga shit figures with eight O's
Watcher was written by Kano.