Slaughtermouse-Joe Budden

[ti:Slaughtermouse] [ar:Joe Budden] [al:All Love Lost (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Slaughtermouse - Joe Budden [00:11.30]Yeah yeah [00:13.08] [00:17.34]Look it was around '99 baby comin' while I was at rock bottom [00:22.33]Ironic sh*t I was listenin' to Rock Bottom [00:24.92]Pockets rabbit ears no paper lot of cotton [00:28.04]Had some charges stemmin' from me and my squad robbin' [00:31.07]Had to leave the hood sh*t stayin' not an option [00:34.08]I bumped your sh*t forever felt we had a lot in common [00:36.92]A rapper expressin' wit who spoke in depressive stints [00:40.02]All that introspectiveness I couldn't measure what it did [00:42.94]Listen I'm writin' to you now cause we don't get to talk much [00:46.49]'Cept for in the stu' when we be passin' through the halls and such [00:49.65]I wonder if you catch me stare at you in awe much [00:52.43]And we be busy workin' so I never share my thoughts much [00:55.76]Remember signin' four niggas with an attitude [00:58.48]Well maybe we'll get your star power and his magnitude [01:01.04] [01:01.57]All I thought was it was 'bout to be on [01:04.18]But I never guessed that I was 'bout to be wrong [01:06.49]We encountered some things [01:07.95]Maybe we should've figured out all along [01:10.15]Who the f**k was I to be too vocal in my doubt for some songs [01:13.48]Even I can't be that dumb to step over the threshold [01:16.35]And be the guy who says no to so many records sold [01:19.42]Whole career I never bit my tongue I let it go [01:22.40]Too many times bein' the rebel ain't end in what's best for Joe [01:25.58]That second album came and added truth to the slander [01:28.50]But we learned what's good [01:29.69]For the goose ain't good for the gander [01:31.87]Guess I'm askin' for advice right now [01:33.64]Experience and leadership to help suffice right now [01:36.67]I guess I'm askin' How would you do it [01:39.44]Before I do somethin' too stupid [01:41.43]Before my group lose it just to get our views lucid [01:43.97]Every other day these niggas want a new exclusive [01:47.33]Should I be in the mix more Maybe I'm too secluded [01:50.58]Do you think you'd be as famous now [01:52.69]If you had to put out My Name Is now [01:55.04]The way the game is now awful lyrics sh*t is shameless now [01:58.88]Just tell me how you'd maneuver if you came in now [02:01.88]It's just thoughts everything is criss-crossed [02:04.59]Gotta be cool with Complex and Pitchfork if I wanna get my sh*t off [02:08.70]These simpleminded niggas won't think you f**k with us [02:11.59]If they don't see you poppin' bottles in the club with us [02:14.73]It's about fashion now which I hate [02:17.18]Because I dress like sh*t I'm just the best when I spit [02:20.14]But different times I was feelin' like the odd man out [02:23.23]Like I should leave they'd be better with the odd man out [02:26.24]Like when I wasn't on that intro I felt a little weird [02:29.55]But that was for the team so I didn't really care for real [02:32.65] [02:33.20]For the team how I happen to be [02:35.37]When Bad met Evil ni**a who was happier than me [02:38.44]Think back the way that I was on that sh*t [02:41.39]You woulda thought it was my album and I was on that sh*t [02:44.34]Like f**k rap happy to see a friendship get mended [02:47.75]Cemented and any frivolous tension get ended [02:50.72]Joell you my G Weapon Waist you my OG cuz [02:54.19]Nickel you know I look at you like it's blood [02:56.68]Here's the flowers before this end is covered in mud [02:59.63]We can disband right now and it's gonna always be love [03:02.82]For a brief period I tried to rhyme like y'all [03:05.67]I was high maybe tryin' to prove that I'm like y'all [03:08.54]But I'm not I suck at all that syllable sh*t [03:11.75]I'd rather make the pen bleed to see the feelin' you get [03:14.66]I'm bein' honest we might never sell a million and sh*t [03:17.92]To me it's more value in keepin' it trill with my nigs [03:20.80]And to Em one of the illest ever on the mic [03:24.51] [03:25.37]We're less different than we are alike [03:27.11] [03:27.68]This ain't about star power I ain't on the hype [03:30.60]Never mind skin color I see beyond the white [03:33.73]My whole life I fought trauma like you [03:35.72] [03:36.23]Had ups and downs with my baby mama like you [03:39.08]I had my fair share of transgressions like you [03:42.21]Had a bad temper once and fought aggression like you [03:45.21]Did drugs popped pills fought depression like you [03:48.28]These are things you'd never pick up [03:50.05]From our sessions in the stu' [03:51.38]I beefed with Hov 50 Game and Wu [03:54.20]Got in my own way a lot I'm sure the same as you [03:57.12]The whole label think I'm crazy I been peeped it [04:01.07]I'm only mad I couldn't keep a better secret [04:03.33] [04:03.85]Still when I hear your voice my head goes wrong [04:06.44]Takes me back to that little boy with my headphones on [04:09.46]And the way you saved my life back then is how I'm savin' them [04:13.00]Plaques and charted tracks won't take me away from them [04:15.83] [04:16.85]So I hope you understand [04:18.24] [04:18.85]F**k this record deal you inspired me as a man [04:21.66]I'll cut it short before I start feelin' like a Stan [04:25.03]HouseGang for life word to the pig on Royce's hand [04:27.74] [04:29.25]Success'll never disable me [04:31.01] [04:31.91]No record label will ever label me [04:34.29]My morals ain't for sale can't under-the-table me [04:37.30]I'll ride it out even when everything ain't savory [04:40.46]My brothers love me they won't enable me [04:43.49]And they won't kill me they won't Cain and Abel me [04:46.11]It's how I feel at the moment