the prelude

Lyrics

, you know, you've got this. fantasy in your head about, getting outta the life and, setting the corporate world on its ear, what the fuck you gonna do except hustle?, besides pimpin. you really ain't got the stomach for that, the game's fucked up, nigga's beats is banging, nigga your hooks did it, your lyrics didn't and your gangster look did it, so i would write it if y'all could get it, being intricate'll get you wood, critic, on the internet, they like you should spit it, i'm like you should buy it, nigga that's good business, hehe, forget this rap shit i need a new hustle, a little bit of everything, the new improved russell, i say that reluctantly cause i do struggle, as you see i can't leave so i do love you, but i'm just a hustler disguised as a rapper, in fact you can't fit this hustle inside of a wrapper, back when crack was, what these pills are, i was a real star, complete with real, cars, no video ones, you can come and set up a camera, let the video run, and my real life, complete with real, ice, vvs boulders oh they're visibly set, head and shoulders, my invisible neck, you see hova, wasn't digital yet, befo' steve jobs, made the ipod, was getting head, jobs, we call that intimate, back when rappers wouldn't dare play lyrical roulette, with a automatic weapon i was rapping with a tec, like be, chain like anti-freeze, shoebox full of cash, dealer man hand me ki's, pantries full of arm & hammer, don't take nancy drew to see, what it do, i'm a damn g, just sent a million dollars through a hands free, that's big money talk, can you answer me?, before the answer was a 3, i was down in georgetown with a hoya chick, lawyer chick, sure he's rich now cause he saw the shit, all this shit, that's why they call him hov', cause he came before all this shit, bought a 6, quarter seven, skipped on them quarter eights, bought a 9 for non-stop glock work all the time, woo! guess who's back?, since this is a new era, got a fresh new hat, ten year veteran, i've been set, i've been through with this bullshit game but i never quit, i used to think rapping at 38 was ill, but last year alone i grossed 38 mill', i know i ain't quite 38 but still, the flow so got a feel, the real is back, hehehehe