I Wanna Know-Joe Budden/Stacy Barthe

[00:05.578]How's everybody feeling out there? [00:08.268]We good? [00:11.168]Let's talk to the sample right quick. [00:16.836]I always pictured we'd be. It go like this. Listen [00:22.113]Let me tell you how I pictured this [00:23.785]A few houses, a couple businesses [00:25.561]Striving for greatness, we would be each other's witnesses [00:28.382]And during beef, we both would put aside our differences [00:31.308]Where I ain't flinch a bit making you insignificant [00:34.156]Maybe kids and shit, perfect arithmetic [00:37.003]Meaning we could build our own world and co-exist in it [00:39.955]She a synergy, sharing energy [00:42.645]Let our souls mate in the air if you remember me [00:45.597]Now here's what I did with it [00:47.191]Went out my way to **** these stripper chicks [00:49.124]Lost good girls making them mistresses [00:51.240]Just savages, missed marriages [00:54.035]They all was my babies, I needed those miscarriages [00:56.960]My worthless self when Joe felt hurt [00:59.338]I went and targeted women who had no self worth [01:02.159]I relate to praying nightly feeling no spell work [01:04.928]When you can do it, but a stranger gotta go help first [01:07.880]I called moms on the phone, here's what I told her real quick [01:10.675]I said my 20s flew by with no control of the shit [01:13.496]Her next sentences weirded out, forever whole with the grip [01:16.396]She said it go by even faster as the older you get [01:19.243]I wanna never dumb down, I'd have to lower my wit [01:22.169]Ain't gotta post this on the Gram for you to know what it is [01:24.964]A partner to trust, I'm thinking even bigger for us [01:27.811]Mom should've told me this when we had shit to discuss [01:30.632]Now either one of us is how we figured we'd be [01:33.558]Sometimes the thought of what if still lives here with me [01:36.275]I always pictured we'd be [01:38.025]Nah'mean? That's how I see it in my head though. Ain't quite pan out like that. Word up. Let me tell you about some more of God's work though [01:54.012][Stacy Barthe:] [01:54.978]I wanna know what this life's supposed to be like [01:59.785]I wanna know, wanna know, ah [02:05.819]I wanna know what this love's supposed to be like [02:11.436]I wanna know, wanna know [02:17.000]Nah, I like it just like that, Parks, let it run [02:27.370]A love that's tideful, never prideful [02:31.393]If you're truly better without me how can I spite you? [02:34.240]As I yearn for the greatest love I ever had [02:37.244]Pardon me, kid, I'm still learning how to be a dad [02:40.013]We be in spots you shouldn't be in 'till you grown [02:42.417]I was absent so long I'm just not leaving you home [02:44.924]So nah, too much to learn, too much world out there [02:47.981]Let me teach you about these hoes, too many girls out there [02:50.750]I respect your mom's tutelage [02:52.683]But that's my weird and my brain, what's she gon' do with this? [02:55.635]Watch and learn, foolish kid [02:57.124]Eyes light up with surprise, you're just like I am [02:59.684]I think that you're enjoying this ride just like I am [03:02.609]Look, same pedigree theoretically [03:05.718]Cut from a cloth that was gone, that's just genetically [03:08.539]One job in life to make you a much better me [03:11.230]Greater feeling than I imagine this shit would ever be [03:14.208]You be feeling strong when you diss me in songs [03:16.768]I did the same my whole career, would never tell you it's wrong [03:19.354]Whatever works out, whatever the price, get that embedded [03:22.593]Even if at my expense, I'll pay it, you take the credit [03:25.440]Had a power struggle when I thought your mom abused it [03:27.922]My hands were in bondage, useless [03:30.508]Beyond the excuses, calm through it [03:32.598]It's crazy bond music [03:33.826]And we do it beautifully for our beautiful conduit [03:36.830]So right now I stand in a place I never stood before [03:39.729]Finally filled the void in my life, I wasn't good before [03:42.681]****ing with these hoes, that energy I was putting forth [03:45.372]God, this was more like the ****ing love I was looking for [03:48.298]Now it's better than we pictured it'd be [03:50.884]And the supervised visits, would never have to relive it [03:53.705]Little nigga will be [03:59.582]This is greater than us. Greater than me. Greater than anything I could ever imagine, man. I ain't talking to everbody. Trey, what up though? What up? What up? [04:10.319][Stacy Barthe:] [04:11.311]I wanna know what this life's supposed to be like [04:16.849]I wanna know, wanna know, ah [04:22.727]I wanna know what this love's supposed to be like [04:28.396]I wanna know, wanna know [04:34.769]I wanna know what this life's supposed to be like [04:39.994]I wanna know, wanna know, ah [04:45.845]I wanna know what this love's supposed to be like [04:51.723]I wanna know, wanna know