Paparazzi - Xzibit

Yes, 1996 marks the beginning of a new era

The dysfunctional member of the Alkaholiks family

It’s Xzibit!

Sometimes I wonder if it’s all worth my while

Xzibit stay versatile, with million dollar lifestyle

And I could feel it as a child growing up

The niggas that was real

And the niggas that was scared as fuck

That’s why Xzibit only roll with a chosen few

You ain’t really real, I can tell when I look at you

So ease off the trigger-talk, you ain’t killin' shit

It’s not affecting me or the niggas that I’m chillin' with

I don’t believe the hype or buy woof tickets

Nigga, you make a gang of noise and never seen, like a cricket

I guess that’s why we never kick it

A lot of niggas is soft and get tossed tryna fuck with the Likwit

How many niggas do you know like this?

Always claimin' that they ridin' but they really turned bitch

It don’t make sense, either you’re a soldier from the start

Or an actor with a record deal tryna play the part—like that!

It’s a shame, niggas in the rap game

Only for the money and the fame (Extra large!)

It’s a shame, niggas in the rap game

Only for the money and the fame (Paparazzi!)

See, I don’t need no lights, no cameras;

just action, goddamn it

Never no superstar, I’m more like a planet

So my composure is kept while others start to sweat

Emergin' from the fog with my fucked-up dialogue

Tryna live high on the hog leaves you bankrupt

And niggas you spent it on would not give a fuck

And that’s deep;

how deep?

It’s deeper than Atlantis

Home of the scandalous: big bad Los Angeles

Dangerous, vandalous, yo, not to be trusted

Now, how the fuck is you hard

Not being scared by the boulevard?

I’m pullin' that card, and saying «Gin, mothafucka!»

Flowin' like liquid;

soak it in, mothafucka!

I’m breakin' it down, my sound surrounds like death

From the West, puttin' whole counties to the test

It’s all in perspective, breaker 1−9 copy

This is for the niggas gettin' caught up in the paparazzi

It’s a shame, niggas in the rap game

Only for the money and the fame (Extra large!)

It’s a shame, niggas in the rap game

Only for the money and the fame (Paparazzi!)

Niggas smoke stress and crossdress, but I just play the back

Others going through schemes and pipe dreams for a contract

Real tightly rolled, fuck 'em all how I feel

I made a cool half mill' before I had a record deal

Therefore you look and stare like it’s magic

But too much of anything can make you an addict

Whenever devils be startin' static, break out the automatic

I set it off straight, I spread hate, then I vacate

But wait!

Who dares to cross this path?

Yo, I do you like math, cut with glass, make a bloodbath

So on behalf of all niggas I get drunk with

Smokin' blunts with, I dispose of your punk shit

He-he, and keep it all in perspective

Carbon copies gettin' caught up in the paparazzi

Once again, it’s the Likwidation crew

And we return at you like this

It’s a shame, niggas in the rap game

Only for the money and the fame (Extra large!)

It’s a shame, niggas in the rap game

Only for the money and the fame (Paparazzi!)