Outcast - Joe Budden

Stuck in the everyday struggle, only mines is hourly

Jungle full of wolves with a few lions that’s cowardly

Used to make it hot, even that was too mild for me

School of hard knocks, tried to make the teacher proud of me

Sue me, script straight out of a movie

Toooolie, won’t get kicked and pushed like Lupe

From groupies to housewives, from scams to skirmish

From sane to loco, from hustler to hermit

You let niggas plot and believe me they goin' try

My nigga been shot nine times and won’t die

And so death threats become death threats

When they want you on your death bed and you ain’t been put to rest yet

You in ICU

See the gunman in your head, damn can’t wait 'til I see dude

Hate hospitals, I don’t wanna go see dude

Know I love you to death, I feel it’s no need to

In my mind there’s bloody hallways and project windows

Dice games, thick clouds of project indo

Niggas creepin' off with the project nympho

Or plain clothes searching for some project info

Projects I resemble, so I don’t stand out lookin' clean cut

Hangin 'round the project kinfolk

Cutthroats and liars, connects and suppliers

Fiends and they buyers, liquor store right by us

Kicks over the wire

If you Dave Blaine start choking in the water, send in the divers

Show dudes the real definition of survivor

In my mind I’m butt naked walking through the fire

Oxymoron, stubborn as a brick y’all

I’m a five star suite with the view of a brick wall

A high class scumbag, conceited nobody

Popular stranger, I see shit like nobody

A Tarrantino, Martin Scorsese

Coming up, I was that nigga they called crazy

In my hood, they like fuck em all, gotta pay me

Then get shot in the ass for thinking it’s all gravy

I’m on my third C.I.

now

And my bitch running round like she a P.I.

now

Going through his phone book and his Levi’s now

It’s two choices, chillax or leave right now

That’s how it be right now ain’t ya ordinary rapper dude

Menace To Society, a nigga with a attitude

A soul of mischief, I know all about that

Poor righteous teacher, nah more like a outcast