Velvet Rope Freestyle — текст песни (Joe Budden)

[Joe Budden]
The game is foul at both ends of it
There`s no freedom of speech `cause of this little thing we call censorship
As if that don`t narrow our content enough
We make it smaller, talkin` bout rims and shit
Gettin jerked for the art, `cause the art`s now work
When you sittin` now writin` in penmanship
And now the radio`s human, for it to fuck with
you gotta make friends with it
So I make some old radio crap
Since everything else on the radio`s that
DJ`s spin this, maybe go plat
And if it don`t play, they`ll say he`s so wack
I`m everything, controversial
Underground, gangsta rap, slash commercial
(I`m) introspective, (I`m) slash reflective
Call the shit whatever long as you get the message
Call the shit whatever long as it ain`t neglected
Long as it gets respected, yeah
Wack dudes going hard to be nice
Nice dues going hard to be wack, going hard for a plaque
Keep doin` what you always did, keep gettin` what you always got
Joey always hot, and it may seem I ain`t always On Top
But I aim in more ways than I`m not
It`s all twisted, nowadays can`t fail to make the charts
Cause the stars made the sales, but now sales make the stars
Wish I could go back to the days of glory
It was all about music, less about the story
It`s like a talk show, one long episode of Maury
One long episode that bores me
It`s like a talk show, more like a soap
Can`t change the channel, can`t find the remote
I call it pathetic, some find it as dope
Some call it hard, I call it all choch`
I find it to be a big screen full of smoke
Stay in it long enough, you guaranteed to choke