Bright As Stars - Blu & Exile, Blu, Exile

Crazy, lately how the world is baby

(You may) have to find a way on your own

Oh all that glitters ain’t gold

You’ll always reap what you sow

And once you shine, they’ll all know

A South Central state of mind

Devout Christians and niggas doing time

Where everybody be trying to shine under that hollywood sign

I been in line ever since I was six

I saw Magic and LL and I just wanted to be rich, cause we wasn’t

We was struggling, I never got anything I wanted as a kid

I would see other kids and get pissed

Like they got mad gifts for Christmas

Yo, how did Santa miss us?

It’s time to grow up and get bucks

Seen these rappers dive them big trucks pulling up to big cribs

I told my mama that that’s how I wanna live

So I picked up a pen and started rapping bout riches

Having dreams about prostituting my image to get bitches

Then I changed it up cause I was lame as fuck

And this rapper ate me up

Never that, you only after major bucks, you ain’t the same as us

Blu been kicking raps back when kids was kicking snaps

Eating grandma’s chicken bags in the back

Bout to bust rolling up, thinking of the dopest shit

I just need to get some beats to get my niggas in the streets

And yeah we did, but when I bumped into Exile, I realized

That it’s about getting respect and not the checks

Now I checked out a bunch of shit I slept on and kept making songs

Hoping one day I would catch on, then I wrote my best songs

Expressing the truth about my adolescence

That’s when blessings start falling from the heavens, like

Crazy, lately how the world is baby

(You may) have to find a way on your own

Oh all that glitters ain’t gold

You’ll always reap what you sow

And once you shine, they’ll all know

I remember when Hip Hop was the only soley thing I had to do, that young

Aceyalonely one

And everyone that know me so I feel of a can

Tried to do a back spin on my head and my hand

Even got two records to blend, was a fan till I seen a mic right on a stand

And that’s right, they understand, yo we made it a lifestyle

The wildstyle freestyle finally I’m nice now

Wow, tell em to pipe down

Still never compares to that incredible right now

That on the spot beat rocks, I get a rush

With the world on my shoulder and love in my clutch

Doing too much to touch us, way more than golden

Roses on the stage when the last show closes

Rolling to the steel drag right on the asphalt

Thanking my lucky stars that I’m here for the last part

The art, the last should be right at the start

Leimert Park, lying heart, that’s a circle of sharks

Off the charts just to be a never forgotten we keep rockin

Tamahawk talking the stocking the new concoction

And building blocks in when the beautiful mile is the only option to not be in

a box or a coffin

Crazy, lately how the world is baby

(You may) have to find a way on your own

Oh all that glitters ain’t gold

You’ll always reap what you sow

And once you shine, they’ll all know

A revelation to the world (it's never been fine)

Only when it’s blackened out (can you see the stars)

I dream in blackness

I’m the brilliant brightest light shining in blackness

I dream, I dream, I dream, I dream

I’m the brilliant brightest light and I shine

A revalation to the world (it's never been fine)

You may shine in Hollywood (I shine on Crenshaw)

I dream (blackness)

I’m the brilliant brightest light shining in blackness

I dream, I dream, I dream, I dream

I’m the brilliant brightest light and I shine

Blue is one of the most beautiful colors in the world

The sky is blue, you got a clear day, people pour out to the beach,

the water’s blue, it’s green without pollution, and everybody’s having fun

How do you associate blue with such a sad, slumped down state of unhappiness?

That’s not the blues, those are the clouds