Joe Budden - Idols lyrics

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Look, long live your idols
May they never be your rivals
Rakim was like Jesus, Chuck D wrote the Bible
G Rap was God, I learned to punch from Kane
Lived in Queens so on Farmers
We would see Todd James
Remember the cover of Black Panther
With the fat gold chains
Then Slick Rick had a million of 'em
So I wanted a million of 'em
Yeah, back in my first days
When we ain’t know who was the
Nicest nigga in 3rd Base
Which emcee was the worst
Before my emcee search
Some niggas thought Pete Nice, me
I thought MC Serch
This before I ever met Em
Way before "Hammer Dance"
This when I was asking Carrie Anne
To make me Hammer pants
Smooth B was dope, Greg Nice had character
Before I ever knew image would even matter
Bruh
Ice Cube raised me, gotta mention Gang Starr
Me and Premier tight right now
We in the same squad
Always tell me stories on the
Game and how it changed, y'all
Life don’t always come full
Circle, I can’t explain, god
Teacher to student
The overlap and the generational gap
I'm seeing is prudent
So when I speak of pursuing
What we deemed as mere dreams and illusions
Albeit a nuisance i’m brewing from eyes that
Have seen through it
It’s no time for even a body to be reclusive
Execs'll feed you excuses, and
If it's seasoned, you chew it
We got old ideologies
I think we should renew it
The psychology for some of
That reasoning's even stupid
For me it’s deeper than music
Much deeper than music
They stole our musical freedom
Up next it’s freedom of music
As a tenth grade drop-out
I'm watching the aftermath
Of everything streaming and
Doing the extremist this is true shit
Don't take a genius to see
The genius is stewing
Ain't got the reach to do it
So let me reach who can do it it go


Look, look if you live long you see
Your idols be your rivals
Hov was like the GOAT
Congratulations on TIDAL
Salute, you broke through many
Barriers for us
When we couldn’t move the needle
You carried us for us look forward
Maybe in 30 years they'll implore us
Push to the back of the red ignore us
I think we nearing that border
Mr carter, who gon' fare for the authors?
They only there to extort us
Who gon be there to record us, nigga?
Even deeper who gon' care for our daughters?
And our sons just the vultures
We keep handing them the culture
And the Hip-Hop that raised this kid
Is one that spoke up
I'm pessimistic, I won't even get my hopes up
But, if it’s gon' all implode
Before it blow up
Need more than overcharging for what they
Did to the Cold Crush
Just a PSA in lieu of the movement
Can't get a quarter back now
What about future music? Really

If we try, we can fly to a place in the sun
All we need is precious dreams and
A friend we can trust
We can go anywhere we want
Any road that we can take
And we're never too far from tomorrow today
Everybody

So if I'm gone when tomorrow come
The mission for my only-born
When tomorrow come
How will we receive songs when tomorrow come?
Here's my study for understudies
To borrow from
New Rage & Machine, nigga, we got this
Is what you hear when label
Ideas meet a plot twist
Used to be faded from the killer talk
Now we suffocating from the pillow talk
Every verse like, "damn, y'all love chivalry"
They offered me fame, as a
Man, I chose dignity, uh
Guess everything ain't for everybody
Maybe everybody ain't for everything
It ain't a thing
I'm looking through my career
I'm more the long game dude on
How I choose to prepare
Not the richest, just the sickest
Ask the dudes in your tier
Knew if I made it to the top
I'd hate the views from up there
We don't value the same shit
I spoke through a despair
Stood out before it was cool to be weird
My nigga, you just appear
Before these niggas hit puberty
I was online talking like it's
Just you and me the foolery
But since we hopping like rabbit's
Calling everything that's dropping a classic
With all this modern day practice
Tactics that should rot in the ashes
Some are cut from the same cloth
Some have forgotten the fabric, listen
Raised a nigga that you rather leave at bay
She ain't walking in naked
She ain’t fashionably late
Have her bring your good shoes
So you can dodge around the rumors
In a suit that light the room
Up like Robert Downey Jr's
Fifth to the court tell I did this before
Without a Baron ask Karen
Nothing civil in war it's civil war
To judging off the shit that I saw
I'm trying to leave it so
Our kids'll have more
Tomorrow is bigger than all
Far away, no never
One thing I can always be sure of
Far away, no never, the promise of today
'Cause we're never far away, never
One thing I can always be sure of
Far away, no never, the promise of today