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Joe Budden
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Yeah, yeah
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Look, it was around '99
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Baby comin' while I was at rock bottom
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Ironic shit, I was listenin' to "Rock Bottom"
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Pockets rabbit ears, no paper, lot of cotton
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Had some charges stemmin' from me and my squad robbin'
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Had to leave the hood, shit stayin', not an option
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I bumped your shit forever, felt we had a lot in common
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A rapper expressin' wit who spoke in depressive stints
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All that introspectiveness, I couldn't measure what it did
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Listen, I'm writin' to you now 'cause we don't get to talk much
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'Cept for in the stu' when we be passin' through the halls and such
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I wonder if you catch me stare at you in awe much
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And we be busy workin' so I never share my thoughts much
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Remember signin' four niggas with an attitude?
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Well maybe we'll get your star power and his magnitude
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All I thought was it was 'bout to be on
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But I never guessed that I was 'bout to be wrong
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We encountered some things, maybe we should've figured out all along
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Who the fuck was I to be too vocal in my doubt for some songs?
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Even I can't be that dumb to step over the threshold
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And be the guy who says no to so many records sold
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Whole career, I never bit my tongue, I let it go
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Too many times bein' the rebel, ain't end in what's best for Joe
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That second album came and added truth to the slander
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But we learned what's good for the goose ain't good for the gander
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Guess I'm askin' for advice right now
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Experience and leadership to help suffice right now
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I guess I'm askin', "How would you do it?"
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Before I do somethin' too stupid
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Before my group lose it just to get our views lucid
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Every other day these niggas want a new exclusive
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Should I be in the mix more? Maybe I'm too secluded
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Do you think you'd be as famous now
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If you had to put out "My Name Is" now?
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The way the game is now, awful lyrics, shit is shameless now
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Just tell me how you'd maneuver if you came in now
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It's just thoughts, everything is criss-crossed
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Gotta be cool with Complex and Pitchfork if I wanna get my shit off
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These simpleminded niggas won't think you fuck with us
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If they don't see you poppin' bottles in the club with us
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It's about fashion now, which I hate
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Because I dress like shit, I'm just the best when I spit
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But different times, I was feelin' like the odd man out
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Like I should leave, they'd be better with the odd man out
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Like when I wasn't on that intro, I felt a little weird
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But that was for the team, so I didn't really care, for real
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For the team, how I happen to be
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When Bad met Evil, nigga who was happier than me?
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Think back, the way that I was on that shit
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You woulda thought it was my album and I was on that shit
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Like fuck rap, happy to see a friendship get mended
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Cemented and any frivolous tension get ended
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Joell you my G, Weapon Waist you my OG 'cause
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Nickel you know I look at you like it's blood
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Here's the flowers, before this end is covered with mud
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We can disband right now and it's gonna always be love
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For a brief period I tried to rhyme like y'all
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I was high, maybe tryin' to prove that I'm like y'all
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But I'm not, I suck at all that syllable shit
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I'd rather make the pen bleed to see the feelin' you get
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I'm bein' honest, we might never sell a million and shit
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To me it's more value in keepin' it trill with my nigs
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And to Em, one of the illest ever on the mic
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We're less different than we are alike
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This ain't about star power, I ain't on the hype
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Never mind skin color, I see beyond the white
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My whole life I fought trauma like you
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Had ups and downs with my baby mama like you
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I had my fair share of transgressions like you
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Had a bad temper once and fought aggression like you
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Did drugs, popped pills, fought depression like you
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These are things you'd never pick up from our sessions in the stu'
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I beefed with Hov, 50, Game and Wu
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Got in my own way a lot, I'm sure the same as you
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The whole label think I'm crazy, I been peeped it
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I'm only mad I couldn't keep a better secret
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Still when I hear your voice, my head goes wrong
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Takes me back to that little boy with my headphones on
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And the way you saved my life back then is how I'm savin' them
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Plaques and charted tracks won't take me away from them
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So I hope you understand
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Fuck this record deal, you inspired me as a man
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I'll cut it short, before I start feelin' like a Stan
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Housegang for life, word to the pig on Royce's hand, uh
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Success'll never disable me
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No record label will ever label me
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My morals ain't for sale, can't under-the-table me
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I'll ride it out, even when everything ain't savory
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My brothers love me, they won't enable me
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And they won't kill me, they won't Cain and Abel me, uh
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It's how I feel at the moment
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