I'm stuck between platinum and flop, underground and mainstream Conscious, backpack, scratch that, same thing I'm somewhere between the real and the fakeness The red pill, blue pill, real of the Matrix And I can't take this If the game needs a new look, I'm between a tummy tuck and a face lift And everything I say in these pages Is straight from the heart, nah magazines, y'all can't rate this Cause I'll be debatin it, it's a bit outragous Like it's an air virus, and this shits contagious I'm downloadin like niggaz actually play this Maybe I'm buggin out, maybe I'm on a spaceship See I was on my stay out chill shit The way Mouse kills shit, I'm here just to lay out real shit Besides, other dudes styles remind me of spinnin rims That shit got played out real quick See some wrote him off, some said he was done Made a joke of, hope he enjoyed the run I don't enjoy bein shunned, so I'm back as Neo Fans enjoyed The One, annoint me as begun I had the whole hood thinkin' he would never eat Rappers tried to diss, thinkin' we would never meet I heard it if you said it You wrote it on online then I read it, now I match it nigga bet it Cause I remember clearly Once "Pump It Up" stopped soarin, there's a few mother fuckers stopped callin See I remember shit spread like cancer I would call folks said, folk ain't answer A few chicks runnin started pullin they pants up A few stopped actin like my private dancer But a lightbulb hit once they started to neglect me See there I was, thinkin' I was all that sexy
Can't be finished, what nigga I beg ya pard' I just let niggaz get a head start I walk to the finish, y'all sprint out chase Nah sprint out pace, and I'll still win the race See I'm joggin Other niggaz legs starts wobblin, when opportunity is start knockin You got the crown, pass off like Stockton It's time to work, I'm offically clocked in He is a problem, weavin and bobbin' Through the speculation that his label tried to drop him I can't leave, even though there's big options Kev only signed me, to keep this shit rockin' Don't ask me how I'm doin, I been better Stuck in cold February, with a thin sweater I'm far from a "YES" man, I'm a trend setter It's no games, just a Def Jam Vendetta Don't put niggaz in the same sink as me I mean metaphors, storylines, deep shit, club shit, girl shit, world shit They don't use to ink like me Niggaz don't even THINK like me Who sees what I'm watchin, he ain't poppin' Don't deserve to drink water from the tub that I wash in WAIT, start again, it's a privilege to breath the same air that I farted in They want no parts with him I dare niggaz categorize me If my name's on a mixtape, then capitalize me I been stopped goin' to Mixtape Awards Don't need them to tell me, the mixtapes is yours I had other ideas, while hittin' loot I'm thinkin' red carpet, I went and copped a suit See I'm thinking Grammy's Sunglasses on, with my On Top family and a bad bitch handy Each day there's a "W", it felt like heaven I'm at an actress's house, that felt like neckin' R&B on, looked and felt like Meagan Gave me headache 'til I felt like an Excedrin Talk very fly Least until I bought every pie, me bein' war readys in my eyes And these dudes might as well be Jamie Foxx Trying to sound like somebody that already died The kid keep a snub wit 'em, good pair of gloves wit 'em [ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/dumb-out-lyrics-joe-budden.html ] Your first week ain't right, they can't fuck wit 'em Now if you don't sell 5 mill, they had enough of 'em Let me find out Hip Hop's turnin' Republican I'