[Intro]



1996, the Disfunctional member of the Alkohaliks family

It's XZIBIT, Bring it live, one time, like this



[Verse One]



Sometimes I wonder if it's all worth my while

Xzibit stay versitile

with Million Dollar lifestyle

and I can feel it as a child growin' up

the niggaz that were real and the niggaz that were scared as

f**k

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 trigga talk, you ain't killin shit

it's not affecting me or the niggaz that I'm chillin with

I don't believe the hype or buy a Woof ticket

Nigga you make a gang of noise and never seem like a cricket

I guess that's why we never kick it

a lot of niggaz are soft and get tossed tryin to f**k with the

liquid

How many niggaz do you know like this?

Also claimin that they're riding but they really turn bitch

It don't make sense

Either you're a soldier from the start

or an actor with a record deal tryin to play the part

like dat



[Chorus:]



It's a shame

niggaz in the rap game

only for the money and the fame

EXTRA LARGE

It's a shame

niggaz in the rap game

only for the money and the fame

Paparazzi [2x]



[Verse Two]



I don't need no lights no cameras

just action god dammit

never no superstar

I'm more like a planet

so my composure is kept while others start to sweat

A merchant from the fog with my f**ked up dialogue

try to live high on the hog leaves you bankrupt

and niggaz you spent it on, would not give a f**k

now that's deep, how deep, It's deeper than Atlantis

Home of the scandalous

Big Bad Los Angeles

Dangerous, Vandelous

Yo, not to be trusted

so how the f**k is you hard

not being scared by the boulevard

I'm pulling that card and sayin Gin muthaf**kar

flowin like liquid, soak it in muthaf**kar

I'm breakin it down, my sounds, so crowds are like deaf

from the West

puttin whole counties to the test

it's all in perspective

Breaker one-nine copy

this is for the niggaz gettin caught up in the Paparazzi



[Chorus]



[Verse Three]



Niggaz smoke stress and cross dress

but I just play the back

others going through schemes and pipe dreams

for a contract

real tightly rolled, f**k 'em all how I feel

I made a cool half mil

before I had a record deal

there for you look and stare like it's magic

too much of anything can make you an addict

when devils be startin static, forgot the automatic

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

who dare to cross this path

yo, I do ya like math

cut with glass, make a blood bath

so on behalf of all niggaz I get drunk with

smoke a lot of blunts with

I dispose of your punk shit

keep it all in perspective

Carbon Copies gettin caught up in the Paparazzi



[Chorus]