Favorite self-awareness bars from rappers

[Buckeye Fever]

...Vacation to Haiti, it nearly broke my heart, seeing kids starve I thought about my Audemar- Ross

...Scared to give my heart to this girl, paranoid she gone leave if my ends get low- Nipsey

Rich Off Cocaine is

 

[Pop123]

 

[Slim Charles]

Masta Ace and Apocalypse

Now if you call me and I'm not around
I'm probably putting my grind down
Doing shows out of town
I be the manager, road manager, and call handler
Booking agent, choreographer and tour planner
I be the V.P. of marketing and promotions
Producer and arranger, with a range of emotions
And after it all, I still gotta perform
At three o'clock in the morn', when half the fans are gone

On the crowded A train every morning
I can't wait for the day
My hustle game don't got to start this way
nikkas think it's all good when they see me and hear my CD
And think I'm jumping in the 745 with TVs
They don't know I miss tours and shows
To go to work and pay bills and keep dough on my clothes

 

[nahnah]

A thread made for Masta Ace

 

[Asicz]

being dead broke is the root of all evil,
get money my nikka,
do good with ya peoples

Rick Ross 'Holy Ghost'​

 

[Asicz]

What you know about your towel on your cell when you alone at night
Or a jailhouse hunger srike
Or you sittin' in your cell and just zone one night
And you think "damn, I'm neva comin' home one night"
You got 5 years in, neva been flown a kite
You hearin' grown men moan at night
They got you stuck in the can
White man got you fukkin' your hand
Your wife on land fukkin' your man


-Beanie Sigel 'What Ya Life Like'

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

How you gon motivate the youth, rapping that gangster shyt?
This what they like, so imma make the shyt
But even still, this my life, I gotta claim this shyt
So even if they didn't like it, I ain't changing shyt
- Tee Grizzley

Heard this song on my Spotify playlist just now. Nothing but pure unadulterated real life shyt was recited on this track