Tech N9ne - Why You Ain't Call Me lyrics

To whom it may concern

Why you ain't call me?
You know I'm the hardest
You know that my art is applauded
Why you ain't call me?
I'm not broken hearted
But it could have been on when I started
Why you ain't call me?
You know I'm the hardest
You know that my art is applauded
Why you ain't call me?
You sleep on my music and that's a
Damn shame 'cause I slam my thang

I've been inside every Hip-Hop
Circle you could imagine gangster or Pop
Even backpackers know that I'm
Real good at rappin'
I was strugglin' back in the day
When my hood was lackin' yo, so I'm 'bout to


Talk about what should've
Would've and could've happened
If music was about innovatin' and penetratin'
Generations by generatin' musical integration
It wouldn't be about
Limitation and demonstratin'
Imitation we then are
Blatantly just disintegratin'
It ain't about the music
It's just about the fame
If you ain't popular homie
Then you just out the game
If video and radio don't
Frequently announce your name
They don't know your music even though
You blow most out the frame
But a closed mouth don't get
Fed when it stays shut
Lay cuts with Tecca N9na 'cause
He can straight bust
Say what? You ain't heard of
Me gettin' paid bucks?
Touring, y'all see me rippin' the stage up

Why you ain't call me?
You know I'm the hardest
You know that my art is applauded
Why you ain't call me?
I'm not broken hearted
But it could have been on when I started
Why you ain't call me?
You know I'm the hardest
You know that my art is applauded
Why you ain't call me?
You sleep on my music and that's a
Damn shame 'cause I slam my thang
Why you ain't?

I've been on tour with Hov, 'bout 27 shows
Why he ain't have me on
A record only heaven knows
Maybe he missed us, missin' the big picture
That this is a fixture, aw yeah
He got Twista! Well Twista's my homie and we
Both from the Midwest
And I guess Hov ain't lookin' for
'nother speedy rapper kid yet
Me collaboratin' with them was
All in me dreams matter fact the only one of
'em called me was Beans
He told me he played you
"The Industry Is Punks"
And you loved it so you know Tech
Is what the industry would want
I started down at the bottom
Got with TOG and then it paid
But, I would've loved to been on
The third verse of "Renegade"
They must think I'm a stick
Of dynamite with no stem
That's prolly why I got D12 but no Em!
But, I burst flame and I bet
That y'all know my first name
'Cause, I'm the hardest this side of Earth
Mane

Why you ain't call me?
You know I'm the hardest
You know that my art is applauded
Why you ain't call me?
I'm not broken hearted
But it could have been on when I started
Why you ain't call me?
You know I'm the hardest
You know that my art is applauded
Why you ain't call me?
You sleep on my music and that's a
Damn shame 'cause I slam my thang
Why you ain't?

This ain't no hate mail, this a love letter
I love you niggas' music and
I hope it does better
I just wish you woulda hit
A brother that love cheddar
But, I'm ballin' now and I'm
Better than I was EVER
Space age flows like Jesse and Primrose
Tenfold, I used to open-up, now I end shows
Grim road
When you one of the best with slim dough
And you ain't got Dre, Storch
Pharrell and no Timbo
I've met almost half of the DTP
But the couple times I spoke to Luda
Don't think he see me
Had never met I20 but he spoke at BET
Shawnna love me
Field Mob and Chingy decently speak me
So I'ma reiterate the game it's all fame
And you don't get no play if you
An emcee with a small name
If I wanna get on TV I
Guess I gotta call Pain and Nelly
My great-grandmother's name is Maude Haynes

Maybe I'm trippin', full of delusion
Maybe it come from all the drugs I was usin'
Maybe I am the best thing you ever saw
Maybe I'm wrong and you don't know me at all
I guess I'm blinded, I got reminded
That none of you just will never
Know who the N9ne is
And you never heard of the
Homie from the Show-me
PUNK THAT! I know you niggas know me

Why you ain't call me?
You know I'm the hardest
You know that my art is applauded
Why you ain't call me?
I'm not broken hearted
But it could have been on when I started
Why you ain't call me?
You know I'm the hardest
You know that my art is applauded
Why you ain't call me?
You sleep on my music and that's a
Damn shame 'cause I slam my thang
Why you ain't call me?
You know I'm the hardest
You know that my art is applauded
Why you ain't call me?
I'm not broken hearted
But it could have been on when I started
Why you ain't call me?
You know I'm the hardest
You know that my art is applauded
Why you ain't call me?
You sleep on my music and that's a
Damn shame 'cause I slam my thang
Why you ain't?