i dont want to be famous cuz that shit will kill you i dont want to be famous cuz that shit will kill you the money power or fame or how many people be screamin your name doesnt equate to success or freedom to me i just wanna live and let my art breathe i just wanna be i just wanna be i just wanna to be be i just want to be free what happened to kurt janis joplin or jimi miles coltrane billie holiday amy winehouse or whitney that fame shit is shifty call it narcissism or call it the drugs call it too much power or the wrong type of love and everyone mad at dave chappelle for savin himself im like well my music cant translate to money sonny my music is infinity fuck 50 million you cant buy my dignity they put lupe in a bind the roots been low budget for a long time paris hilton barley does a day but if you a rapper they give you the max and throw the key away picture talib kweli questioned by the fbi listening to stokely carmichael and they wanna know why i imagine all the people like john lennon but then i remember all the people like john lennon malcom huey king kennedys too many names to mention arizona sheriffs and vigilantes with raw aggression i dont want to be famous cuz that shit will kill you i dont want to be famous cuz that shit will kill you and i dont wanna be and i dont need to be and i dont wanna be and i dont need to be but i got to feed my family dave chappelles black white supremacist hit kids in my class memorized the skit couldnt interpret what dave was tryin to say that ignorance is blind and so is hate so they actin all kkk runin the hall way all day yellin go back to your country white power stupid kids thinkin racism was cool unaware that the chappelle joke was aimed at you if i blew these fools would misconstrue the shit that i do you say its the year of the white mc that dont mean shit to me im bi racial homie i aint got no fake id and because i speak about race thing id be the first they paint crazy america loves slim shady cuz thats poor white american rage kicked over music built on black american pain and i too break free from break beats built from the cracks and the inequality im just a small town kid big city adopted raised into a man funky finiquera where i stand just a lonely mestizo lettin ink flow over the alchemist instrumental i write knowin people goin paint me black or white but worse come to worse my people come first and i fight i dont want to be famous cuz that shit will kill you i dont want to be famous cuz that shit will kill you and i dont wanna be and i dont need to be and i dont wanna be and i dont need to be but i got to feed my family i never believed in such a thing as bad music just misguided and crap thats useless i dont believe in white music i dont believe in black music i believe the fact is that black people were the first to do this created american music then the white kids started started groovin and wanted to do the same shit from hip hop to jazz they called it devil music or a fad cuz the music was born black but it takes both you know white man invents the saxophone oppresses black man black man teaches the white man how to dance and make that motherfuckin horn blow ey yo dont get me wrong i love legends like dylans and lennons i just make objections when people say rock and roll and only white names get mentioned what happened to muddy chuck and kool herc the ones who made that shit groove first hey i give no love to a hip hop elvis black or lilly white wearin a block of ice in the summer time you the type to get held over the balcony by a suge knight stars fall vanilla ice yikes and hip hop aint that black and white the truth is the first b boys were puerta ricans and you cant get no run dmc without out no rick rueben and hes jewish so dont ask me what the fuck im doin i dont want to be famous cuz that shit will kill you i dont want to be famous cuz that shit will kill you and i dont wanna be and i dont need to be and i dont wanna be and i dont need to be but i got to feed my family credits