Good Evening Ladies and gentlemen I'd like to welcome everybody Please take your seats Please be seated We have a great show lined up for everybody tonight Special guest in the house tonight Joe Budden, J.Garden Let's... GO A wise man said we all wear a mask At times keepin it on is too much of a task Your face on the net, and your life's on blast It might slip off, you gotta give me a pass Sometimes I feel like a mannequin But how they dress me don't make me the man I am Not a rose don't hamper him They just lookin' at the clothes on a mannequin Look, look, look I want the best cars and the best flow I want the best broads that's how that go I mean I want to be a star and collect dough But even if I had it all it'd be just for show I want the diamonds to make my neck glow {Yeah} Lust for the next hoe a love will never let go {Talk to 'em! } I want to run along from my shortcomings {BUT! } But I smoke so my breath gonna be short running {OHH! } I want to be in control, hands on If I'm the pilot then we will never land wrong {NEVER! } But I want to have faith, staying strong Take the first step when I ain't got a leg to stand on I got a lot to give but I want more With numb thoughts, positive but I'm unsure On the misplace, getaway and it's disarray And ya'll don't know the man just what he put on display {OHH! } I'm too annoyed to cope, tryna make a livin Given I don't think that being a dope boy is dope Out of every story, only 2 end in glory Who am I to think I'm different than every hustler before me? If I took my anger, became a gangbanger I would aim to aim my anger at every stranger Shawty wanna leave, honestly I can't blame her Say the ones you love the most are always in the most danger I talk a little slower so you have to hear Dead man walkin, no tatted tears Or realest to ever do it, cavalier Hundred thousand dollar car, with rabbit ears I don't welcome change even if it help 'em gain Fuck a handout, I'd rather be self contained L.V everything, lookin' well arranged Y'all would never know that I'm practicing self restrain I been different, never mind I'm just indifferent Ain't an old timer that would blame it on a skin pigment Is it my imagination or a slim figment? Or is gent ignant, probably why I'm indignant Look at haters like 'why is it an issue? ' Is it because I'm sober but I'm on a high they can't get to? God? fightin with his pride and his pitbull God I was lied as it get to Cursin' God out "why he decide to pick dude? " I big bulls but when I try it's abyssmal Die and keepin everythin inside me a riddle But they blinded by the condo size and it's sick view Whys, try and answer the whys What good is havin eyes when everything you look at you despise? {Can anybody hear me? } Or do you need ears when you don't believe anything you hear? Maybe it's just something in the air [Hook]