Mood Muzik The Box Set Intro

[Intro]

New Joe Budden

[Verse]

Let me reintroduce y’all

I guess in doing that I will reduce y’all

Sent away from Parks's shelf, excuse y’all

I’d hate to have the fans to be thinking that they didn’t have a use for y’all, wait!

Even thinking as I write this, yeah

Probably come off as abuse to y’all, so

Think we better call dyfs

Or get a chair, every snare's like a noose to y’all

What I gotta prove to y’all? Already been clear

So serious, I'm so sincere

Thinking I'm overlooked, really I been here

Going on ten years

And by no means at all is that a thin career

I’ll battle anybody in this hemisphere

It’s not recklessness, specialist on some introspective shit

I don’t respect this shit, I thought y’all didn’t care, so

Since they hopping on the same page, wait

Lemme go and write a new book, yeah

Let me show them what we 'bout Royce

Let me show them what we do Crook

They was under the impression we was underground, nah

We don’t do the spotlight and gimmicks

Dudes y'all listen to don't be getting it in

So I snatched every nigga that they mimicked

Authentic, y’all call it a clinic

Y’all race against time but I'm winded

Hip-hop’s son, Kool Herc's descendent (?)

Nah, nigga, never cared who we offended

'Cause they told me I’d be dead by now

Told me I was sick, I’m on meds right now

Shit’s pitiful, I’m lyrical, bitch, in the booth, nigga probably getting head right now

I wish it was a window

To what my mind be brewin’

Y’all pop the bottles or wine cooler

Either way don’t interrupt what I’m doin’

It's my tune it don't pertain to you

It’s not obtainable, this rhyme schooling

So after my latest should be labelled the greatest

And even if I’m not I’m signed to him

Always thought I only had to be myself though

All that ever got a nigga was the shelf though

Built my own legacy without help though

So now I need more room than just elbow

Now the angst is building and the buzz is high, shit is long awaited

Even though I run the risk of having songs be dated

Before I ever conform I’ll be constipated

What I mean I can easily pop off

Sell out and get the whole world to talk 'bout

I’d be rich right, but it wouldn’t sit right

So I hold my own shit before it’s forced out

Every line would be about pulling a Hawk out

Not me, can’t help 'em lower the bar

Label heads keep callin', they know I’m a star

Fuck the charts, I’d rather take over their hearts

Got paper just as long

Got a couple of fags that doubted, I don’t brag about it

I was raised to think that that’s wrong

Surrounded by thick strippers who don’t get the picture

As they poppin’ it to that song

But I’ll put a million worth in your brain

Before I put a single one in that thong

Maybe I’m just fabricating myself

Maybe I’m a sucker for some ass and some hips like that

Powerful enough to set you up with a career

Spiteful enough to snatch it right back

Man enough to never care what other folks think

Tell a chick pack up get done with the hood

But this new lifestyle so foreign to her, her new name Ms Understood

Built my own legacy know it’s fan made

Thousand dollar shades on, hand made

When it comes to pain, no they can’t aid

Maybe it’ll be a temporary band aid

Cause I came in blind to it all

Then I learned the game’s designed for you to fall

I don’t mind it at all, eating my ribs

Good meal, cause I stay prime through it all

I can tell from the whispering that these haters got it so wrong

Thinking bout my currency the only worry I see is which balcony to smoke on

And I know it hurts to hear a nigga persevere kind of man know how to stay strong

Just gotta shake the dice up and throw them shits without a care which side they land on

You’re hearing a legend, a leader

Still brought to you by Kevin and Lyor

Cig lit in the bed with my feet up

Mislead if you think you can keep up

At this point it’s the have’s against the have not’s

Nah we won’t ever share the same views, got different bread

Nigga the same dude has got different ones, went to the same school

The same folks, the same hoes

So it’s clear to me could be blurry to you

In the same regard they got the same heart

And I been there with you, in a hurry to do

We don’t move at the same speed, nah

Probably thinking I’ma cheat code

Unparalleled, it’s called beast mode

Had my real nigga ethics, G code