[Hook: Joe Budden]
Now if it goes to the wire
I will never fall I got the soul of a fighter
Walk barefoot over coal over fire
Nobody's gonna love me like me so I'm my sole provider
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[Verse 1: Joe Budden]
Nobody thought I'd ever be dope with the pen
Whole first album was real, all wrote from within
Got a little bit of fame
I'm in the 5, top off and y'all lokin' again
Nah I ain't smokin' again
Maybe I was too advanced
Or 'cause the ma**es didn't go through it first hand
Maybe they couldn't understand
The trials of a kid who never graduated
Maybe they'd rather hear some bullsh** that's fabricated
Like my rims keep spinnin' on the V on the ave
f** me gettin' shot at or me gettin' stabbed
f** gettin' so high to the point that I was gettin' so high
Off of that high that I almost died
f** everything I've seen in the precinct that's indecent
Or the coppers tryna keep me in there for no reason
f** me being homeless
Rib cage showin'
Last night I had beef but had to go there to eat
f** me growin' up and not gettin' to see Dad
f** therapy, detoxes and rehabs
Dudes in the hood being wild undercover
Or me beefin' with my child's mother
Or f** Joe Budden the 3rd
Chill, 'cause if you f** with Joe Budden the 3rd
Then n***a that's my word
f** the jealousy, deceit
f** the strong-armed B&E's
'Cause life's much older than 23
f** what I'm rappin'
f** this and the pad
And n***a f** me missin' my dad
Maybe if I rap 'bout buyin' the bar out
Or all the j**elry that I got
Then maybe y'all n***as'll listen to that
But listen, know now that this is my whole style
And I can't rap that other sh**, I don't know how
All the hate sh** on me
And the fakeness I see
I write the REAL that you can't take that from me
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[Verse 2: Joe Budden]
I don't write so my label can be on top
n***a I write so the voices in my head just stop
n***a I write my life and it's way too real
This is Pay-per-view not the Dave Chappelle
Joey hated by many and loved by few
One of the last real n***as left
What you wan' do?
Trouble with my voice, but even without a voice
Still for every hood in New Jersey I'm the choice
Used to break up in a house for a TV
Two years later, look Mouse on TV
My story nonetheless
And it's a story of success
n***a it's the story of the best
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