Fame

[Shadows]

When you were growing up, whatever it was that you wanted to do, how important was FAME to you?

Was it Fame based on a regular career, like being a well known Doctor, or movie star, etc?


I was talking to a friend of mine and he said he never cared for fame and just wanted money. Yet, I remember him telling me like a few months back at how well he wanted to be known and stuff for things he did.

 

[Sebastian]

Here we go again...

...Shadows was talking to his friends again.

 

[dilla]

To be honest, as corny and cliche as it sounds, I want to naturally feel happy with myself and what I've done. It may mean money, it may mean prestige, but I want to be able to look back and have few regrets. There will always be some, but I want nothing major that just bothers me forever. I want to feel that everything I've accomplished has some substance and isn't merely money and fame.

Don't get me wrong, I'm just like every other normal human being and want attention sometimes, and money certainly doesn't hurt. But I've done a lot of things in my life that I thought were important and once I got it, I didn't feel as satisfied as I thought I would have been. I am told by many that money and fame fall into this category. I'm still striving for it, but I know there are lots of other intangibles that usually I'll only see, feel, etc., myself. No one else would be able to understand what it meant to me.

When I was even younger? Of course money was a huge factor. So was fame. Who doesn't want to be a Heisman-winning, first-round-pick running back making $25 million a year? But that shit, I realize, would get old fast.

 

[Tha_Wood]

im famous in my area of work. every one in the industry i work in knows who i am, and most havnt met me. they call me the surgeon in some circles, and in others they call me the mad dogg. but what ever they call me they always know i am handy with a box cutter, mark up the prices on a light bulb %100 to nice old grandma's and that i have a bog box of porn under my desk.

 

[Pittsey]

I never wanted fame. I wasn't even after money. I just wanted to be fulfilled.

I am none of those.

 

[Ristol]

I'd rather be famous than righteous or holy any day.

 

[masta247]

The last time I wanted to be famous was when I was 10 or 12 and thought that famous people are better than casual people. That it makes them feel more accomplished and I still immaturely perceived them that way.
Then when I grew up I didn't want any extraordinary cash or fame anymore. I'm like Pittsey in this case. By now I am rather fulfilled though. Most of all I'm happy about who I am, as corny as it might sound. As long as it stays that way I don't need more and somehow living that way grants me more than I've ever wanted.
I don't know how it'll be when I turn 30 or 40.

Usually people who are really after money or fame turn out to end up with nothing of real importance in life.

 

[Flipmo]

One thing we all adore. Something worth dying for. Nothing but pain. Stuck in this game. Searching for fortune and fame

 

[THEV1LL4N]

the rep bar tells me im a name known to all, so therefore my dream is accomplished.

 

[S O F I]

I don't remember what I wanted when I was growing up. Sure, we've all fantasized about being famous for being good athletes, movie stars, etc. but I never took it serious as something I really wanted to be when I grew up. Now, I'd say I have no particular interest in fame. I think money would be nice because it makes things a lot easier and it would enable me to help the less fortunate in my family...and they're all less fortunate. Also, money's a good pick-me-up when things are going shitty. But I don't want to be known for having money. Whatever area of work I end up, it'd be important for me to do it well and be recognized for it..everyone wants recognition. But that recognition never translated into teeny boppers throwing training bras at me or the paparazzi snapping pictures.

 

[SiGh]

One thing we all adore, something worth dying for, nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.

 

[_carmi]

bah I dunno. maybe? i dunno lots of paparazzi and shit. o ya. they got some tuff life them celebrities.

 

[dilla]

Turn it up in my head phones
Coming to a ghetto near you, street fame
More, coming to a ghetto near you

I wasn't mad until these tricks shot me, it's time to sanitize my posse
Look how paranoid these niggas got me
Cellular calls are being traced, since surveillance silently
Momma chill thug livin' pay the bills and die violently

Closed caskets expose bastards I leave 'em bloody
Deloris tucker don't let your kids hear a nigga speak on gettin' money
Ain't nothin' funny, green, got a nigga seein' things
Why, hit the lye hope to God I can fly

Lethal weapon I'm a savage, still a method to my madness
Blast niggaz laugh call 'em care cabbage
Read 'em and weep, put 'em to sleep they hell bound
Lyrics will leave 'em spell bound, clown now tired of being held down

Cross my heart hope to die blinded in some pussy millionaire
Living care free, sucka free, playa haters miss me
Hope in hard times never catch me slippin'
Fuck authorities they wonder why minorities be trippin' we ain't having it

Time to tear this shit back, ghetto children kick back
Once I hit the mat niggaz will never get this shit back
Spit it so eloquently, my pistols represent me
Bust until my rounds empty, back for the street fame

One love to my true thugs comin' to a ghetto near you, street fame
Bust, comin' to a ghetto near you, street fame
All out warfare, eye for a eye bustin' on my enemies bad boy killing
(Comin' to a ghetto near you, street fame)
Straight dissing you, fuck Lil' Kim you nasty bitch

Temperatures rises niggaz blinded by my lyrical disguise
No time to plot retreats, niggaz shiver and die
Multiple rounds found laced in his body and face
Wrapped in plastic, the acid erased all traces

Criminal tactics the rap game became so drastic
Military mind mashed all the walls they blasted
If we bleed then they suffocate chokin' in terror
So we strive singularize we reflect in the mirrors

The prophecy is clear niggaz lock an' load disappear
Strategize with no fear, waging war for years
The crack game wasn't big enough, ready to rush
You bitch made motherfuckers get murdered and touched

I go to jail niggaz screamin' free me, speakin' freely
Conversatin' with my comrades kicking Swahili
Indeed nature feel my first seed it gets worse
Plans are cursed to be a G on the first to breathe

Currency in stacks, artillery in the back strapped
Armies, we camouflaged in all black
When we attack, holla out my set, nigga tighten your jaw
Givin' birth to outlaws, street fame

Bust nigga bust, comin' to a ghetto near you, street fame it's true
(Hell yeah)
Only Makaveli the don can put it down like this, hey Nas
(Comin' to a ghetto near you with street fame)

Positive identification, got me rushed to the station
Stuck in this line up tryin' hard to hide my face
They placed the name but can't recall description
I ain't did shit officer, that bitch trippin'

Promise retaliation they plan busted, no man to be trusted
Everything corrupted once man touched it, Kamikaze
Hoping that none of the spies find me
That's why we bye bye daily, knowin' cops trail me

But why cry floatin' while we tokin' on this potent branch
Flossing in the thug stance, flipping pockets out inside my pants
Never underestimate me, playa hate me, see me and hide
Sure as hollow points shatter, enemies die

Spread love dead thugs gettin' buried in riches
Take a chance to advance fuck them worryin' bitches
Penitentiary's a possibility, bust and pray
Wear a rubber so I live to fuck another day

Hey ain't nothin' strange, I'm 25 dying to change
But still I bang wanting street fame
That's the end of that, thugged out, Makaveli the don
Representin' the outlaws

Street fame, one love to my true niggaz
Comin' to a ghetto near you, street fame
Makaveli the don, Killuminati
Comin' to a ghetto near you, street fame
Yo check this out, I'm a tell you like this, street fame

If the lifestyle that you living
Got you taking more fucking shorts than getting props
Then that lifestyle need to stop, best to recognize some outlaw shit
'Cause only in this outlaw lifestyle can you truly come to
To see what this life's supposed to be like
Nigga you'll start to see riches, fine bitches and hitting switches
Shit, to me that shit sound delicious

 

[Jokerman]

^OMG, stfu already

 

[Shadows]

Smacky, I didn't know you were 25

 

[dilla]

^OMG, stfu already

Right. Because you have another post about trivial shit one person on this forum cares about.

Carry on.

 

[Da_Funk]

I've never wanted to be famous. Infact, I think fame would be the worst. I have always wanted money, and lots of it. The trick was finding something I'd enjoy doing that would earn me a lot of money.

 

[S O F I]

dajte mi oci koje ne placu, dajte mi zenu koja ne vara

 

[Bobby Sands]

^^is that how you say Estonia 3 Serbia 1 in Serbian?

 

[Flipmo]

lol to both. ^