[Mya:] Try to make it real compared to what?
  Oh oh oh oh oh...oh oh oh oh
  Sock it to me now
    [Common:] They say money make a man strange
  Is it money or we dont understand change
  Money should be real we campaign If we shoe then just keep your thang thang
  Maintain who we are as the gang chains
  Everybody wanna star its the same game
  I didn't travel this far to do the same thang
  It's the trip not the real i was mainstream
  Thats whats up
    [Mya:] Try to make it real compared to what?
  Try to make it reeeeeeal
    [Man talks:.....]
    [Mya:] oh
    [Common:] The real can't be bought
  But so taught
  And told the boy tryed to keep the records off the sole
  On the road to the riches he lost control
  By the eye of the needle, I was often told
  Disrespect for nothin is far from gold
  In your actions all is told
    [Mya:] ohh
    [Common:] your in the game
  You gootta have ball control
  You see fame is all a road
  New lights actions
  Car when the camera snappin
  Pop like is it another plan for passion
  Are we really real or are we acting
  Right through the fake smiles and mask
  And rassionalize
    [Mya:] Try to make it real compared to what?
    [Common:] Some my people keep rockin on
  All my people keep rockin on