Am I still the Gerald that I been from the beginning? Ask 10 people you'll get 10 different opinions Should I be rapping? Should I be singing? Should he be loosing? Should he be winning? Should he keep pitchers still and a knife in it? Keep this and I should set in fuel to my engine Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning? Ask 10 people you'll get 10 different opinions Somebody in my life was a best friend to me Been a minute since my God sent a text to me That really said something, think he's judging me Feel 10 miles apart when you're standing next to me Lifestyles change, people grow apart Won't happen overnight, this *** had a slow start Different *** matters when you open up your heart Addiction to celebrity could choke you from the start Crazier than heroin, yeah this *** hooks you My uncle died of that, my dad told me that's a good dude Never met him, only heard stories where it took you And I'm just tryna live up to what they think that I should do Cause he's got potential, he's that precious He's that special, he could be Elvis He should be the biggest, he should put his career first But no one ever told me I should go and put me first Am I still the same Gerald that I been from the beginning? Ask 10 people you'll get 10 different opinions Should I be rapping? Should I be singing? Should he be loosing? Should he be winning? Should he keep pictures still and a knife in it? Keep this and that *** setting fuel to my engine Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning? Ask 10 people you'll get 10 different opinions How could he feel lonely when he's always surrounded? How could he not indulge when he's always around it? How come he does drugs, could he still do it without it? How could he fly the highest, am I still staying grounded? Some days I really feel like I could've run for president Some days I wanna be a self-destructive degenerate Getting high, wasting my time, I'm not regretting it People talking about what I should be doing instead of it But this is my life, and now they go to bed with it Got some real demons, can't seem to cut off the head of it Pay for my decisions, feel like I just lost a bet with it Maybe my success has been going straight to my head a bit Maybe I been listening too much Maybe I been drinking all the Kool-Aid and fruit punch Maybe I got it, should stop tryna find help Stop looking outside and look for it in myself Am I still the Gerald that I been from the beginning? Ask 10 people, you'll get 10 different opinions Should I be rapping? Should I be singing? Should he be losing? Should he be winning? Should he keep pictures still and a knife in it? Keep this, and I should set in fuel to my engine Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning? Ask 10 people, you'll get 10 different opinions Rinse, wash, repeat, learn through repetition Deliver platinum albums, you take it as a giving Songs I write themselves, how you think they getting written? Wanna judge me? Then come trade me my position Everyone is talking, everyone's reacting Take it all for granted, think these things just happen Every stop, hopping off and on the bandwagon Hate the way I'm living, criticize my actions Bought moms a house and the town was hella proud of it But the next day I did some *** you got a problem with Almost *** up, the deal was high and I was out of it On the conference call, all mushrooms, my words slurred a bit Mind myself who I am, all the *** I done Right now I'm top two, selling rappers where I'm from And I ain't number two, that only leaves one I go out as the biggest *** artist when I'm done, for real Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning? Ask 10 people, you'll get 10 different opinions Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning? Is he still the Gerald that he been from the beginning? I go out as the biggest *** artist when I'm done, for real If it don't work out, then you can tell me goodbye