Idols-Joe Budden

[00:11.089]Look, long live your idols, may they never be your rivals [00:14.407]Rakim was like Jesus, Chuck D wrote the Bible [00:17.176]G-Rap was God, I learned to punch from Kane [00:19.814]Lived in Queens so on Farmers we would see Todd James [00:22.609]Remember the cover of Black Panther with the fat gold chains [00:25.535]Then Slick Rick had a million of 'em [00:27.599]So I wanted a million of 'em [00:28.957]Yeah, back in my first days [00:31.413]When we ain't know who was the nicest nigga in 3rd Base [00:34.234]Which emcee was the worst before my emcee search [00:37.029]Some niggas thought Pete Nice, me, I thought MC Serch [00:39.876]This before I ever met Em, way before "Hammer Dance" [00:43.377]This when I was asking Carrie Anne to make me Hammer pants [00:46.459]Smooth B was dope, Greg Nice had character [00:48.967]Before I ever knew image would even matter, bruh [00:51.997]Ice Cube raised me, gotta mention Gang Starr [00:54.949]Me and Premier tight right now, we in the same squad [00:57.875]Always tell me stories on the game and how it changed, y'all [01:00.696]Life don't always come full circle, I can't explain, God [01:03.700]Teacher to student [01:04.876]The overlap and the generational gap I'm seeing is prudent [01:08.271]So when I speak of pursuing [01:09.760]What we deemed as mere dreams and illusions [01:12.164]Albeit a nuisance [01:12.921]I'm brewing from eyes that have seen through it [01:15.011]It's no time for even a body to be reclusive [01:18.015]Execs'll feed you excuses, and if its seasoned, you chew it [01:20.732]We got old ideologies, I think we should renew it [01:23.579]The psychology for some of that reasoning's even stupid [01:26.427]For me it's deeper than music, much deeper than music [01:29.483]They stole our musical freedom, up next it's freedom of music [01:32.278]As a tenth grade drop-out I'm watching the aftermath [01:35.047]Of everything streaming and doing the extremist [01:37.894]This is true shit [01:39.044]Don't take a genius to see the genius is stewing [01:41.238]Ain't got the reach to do it, so let me reach you can do it [01:43.772]It go [01:44.634][Hook] [02:06.629]Look, look [02:07.256]If you live long you see your idols be your rivals [02:09.973]Hov was like the GOAT, congratulations on Tidal [02:12.872]Salute, you broke through many barriers for us [02:15.641]When we couldn't move the needle you carried us for us [02:18.436]Look forward, maybe in 30 years they'll implore us [02:21.388]Push to the back of the red ignore us [02:23.478]I think we nearing that border [02:24.862]Mr. Carter, who gon' fare for the authors? [02:27.031]They only there to extort us [02:28.520]Who gon be there to record us, nigga? [02:30.400]Even deeper who gon' care for our daughters? [02:32.987]And our sons just the vultures [02:34.449]We keep handing them the culture [02:35.938]And the hip-hop that raised this kid is one that spoke up [02:38.838]I'm pessimistic, I won't even get my hopes us [02:41.894]But if it's gon' all implode before it blow up [02:44.637]Need more than overcharging for what they did to the Cold Crush [02:47.798]Just a PSA in lieu of the movement [02:50.384]Can't get a quarter back now, what about future music? [02:53.231]Really [02:55.870][Hook] [03:21.339]So if I'm gone when tomorrow come [03:24.187]The mission for my only-born when tomorrow come [03:26.799]How will we receive songs when tomorrow come? [03:29.542]Here's my study for understudies to borrow from [03:32.389]New Rage & Machine, nigga, we got this [03:35.053]Is what you hear when label ideas meet a plot twist [03:37.796]Used to be faded from the killer talk [03:41.192]Now we suffocating from the pillow talk [03:44.118]Every verse like, “damn, y'all love chivalry” [03:46.600]They offer me fame as a man, I chose dignity [03:49.186]Guess everything ain't for everybody [03:51.981]Maybe everybody ain't for everything [03:55.063]It ain't a thing, I'm looking through my career [03:57.127]I'm more the long game dude on how I choose to prepare [03:59.922]Not the richest, just the sickest, ask the dudes in your tier [04:02.639]Knew if I made it to the top I'd hate the views from up there [04:05.669]We don't value the same shit, I spoke through a despair [04:08.307]Stood out before it was cool to be weird, my nigga, you just appear [04:11.729]Before these niggas hit puberty [04:14.524]I was online talking like it's just you and me [04:17.189]The foolery, but since we hopping like rabbits [04:19.984]Calling everything that's dropping a classic [04:22.178]With all this modern day practice [04:23.406]Tactics that should rot in the ashes [04:25.156]Some are cut from the same cloth [04:26.880]Some have forgotten the fabric, listen [04:28.918]Raised a nigga that you rather leave at bay [04:30.982]She ain't walking in naked, she ain't fashionably late [04:33.489]Have her bring your good shoes so you can dodge around the rumors [04:36.938]And then shoot to light the room up like like Robert Downey Jr [04:40.020]Fifth to the court tell I did this before [04:41.979]Without a bearing ask Karen, nothing civil in war [04:44.774]It's civil war, to judging off the shit that I saw [04:47.465]I'm trying to leave it so our kids'll have more [04:49.999]Tomorrow is bigger than all