[Intro: Sample "Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap]
Eminem: The first time I grabbed the mic, like in front of actual people that mattered, You know what I'm saying? Like at a club - I got Booed, I just remember that being so f**ing traumatic and I think I went home like man, I... I quit
[Verse: Braidz]
I feel like I'm a ghost in a shell because I'm dead inside
Never lie my brain's purpose only seem's to terrorize
Me until I end my life, bet I cry but when I try
I hit an invisible wall of d**h like a motherf**ing metal mime
I then rely on getting high it's the only thing that gets me by
Rap don't do it no more once the Track's Done I wanna End The Line
It feels like everything blows inside this f**ing head of mine's
And once that smoke clears, well I guess i've got that Never-Mind
My troubled mind says it's hustle time need to get famous fast
If I keep writing Double The Lines there'll be no Lane To Pa**
But my mental state is so distracting it breaks my heart
Used to be happy now I'm putting on a fake facade
Most day's I feel like a mean, hopeless fiend toking green
Hoping these folks will see and notice me then open dreams
Though the scenes focus seems scoping me and joking teens
Think that they have broken B' but don't know they won't be noticed
[Hook: Braidz]
Now I'm trying not to give up
But it just gets so hard
'Cause I ain't having luck in the scene
Been feeling like I should say f** It and leave...
I give this sh** all of my heart
And these guys just turn 'round and laugh
Do I continue to please my fans and my pa**ion?
Because my mind's saying f** It too me...
[Verse: Braidz]
If a few years back I heard 60's song say to Live It Up
I would have turned around and said "Yo, we don't give a f**"
See it's sh** like that, all this little stuff
That has this Full Keg Rapper still performing at these Mini Bars
Told I would see more stumbles If I don't be more humble
But I never took it in, told the scene all "f** you!"
'Til I dropped my last tape - and nothing eventuated
Even though my sk**s had increased tenfold as I demonstrated
Now I see it was my attitude, Mr. Negative bashing dudes
I lashed at the scene over my own problems - now that's the truth
Now my dreams are likely bashed and bruised
'Cause now I get no chances because back then I was wack as too
And they can't look past the past they say this "poofter" is a**
They don't hear the similes that I put in my bars
But this Villain Is Sick like i'm Crook In A Mask
And I'mma always Kick It Hard like my Foot's In A Cast
(But I'm....)
[Hook: Braidz]
Now I'm trying not to give up
But it just gets so hard
'Cause I ain't having luck in the scene
Been feeling like I should say f** It and leave...
I give this sh** all of my heart
And these guys just turn 'round and laugh
Do I continue to please my fans and my pa**ion?
Because my mind's saying f** It too me...
[Verse: Braidz]
Balled so hard now they're calling me a Nutcase
Trolled so much now the scene's saying "f** Braidz"
But It seems my hate train has slowly stopped upon a station, but
In the back of my mind I feel that it's just down for maintenance
Now I've started to repent there's dude's barking up my fence
Who I used to have love for - Noticed nothing's ever said
About me, When I'd ask for help, So s** your mother's tit
Rub up on her clit, 'Cause Karma is a Motherf**ing b**h
Back when my name was Taboo like one of the Black Eyed Peys
All these guys talked like "Braidz is wack" guys, please
I could chat my teeth and come up with better lines than crack lined speed
Thinking I'm a brash white teen, who's never bashed light geeks?
In reality I just got over the street sh**
Puffing pipes inbetween spliffs, But knowing all these kids?
They'll crack a joke to that bar, like "He got sick of them beefing"
Congrats, you found a track that leaked that I never planned on releasing...
[Hook: Braidz]
Now I'm trying not to give up
But it just gets so hard
'Cause I ain't having luck in the scene
Been feeling like I should say f** It and leave...
I give this sh** all of my heart
And these guys just turn 'round and laugh
Do I continue to please my fans and my pa**ion?
Because my mind's saying f** It too me...
[Outro: Sample "Eminem - "Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap]
Eminem:...And then, you know maybe a couple weeks later, days later, hour later? Or whatever it was, I dunno I just, I got the urge like nah man I gotta get up, gotta do it again...
Ice T: That's right, thank god...