Nobody

[Canibus:]

You know this rap game is a lot like high school

and high school is a lot like life

You see in life, you got to do things to set yourself apart from your peers

you need to identify the qualities that separate you from those around you

After all, isn't that what most people spend they lives trying to accomplish?

Wouldn't we all want somebody, somewhere later on down

the line to remember the things that were different about us?

Don't you understand? The more you fit in, the less you're noticed

That's how it is, for anyone to walk through life unnoticed as if they never mattered

could be a punishment worse than death, and at the same time

that punishment is the only way you could truly be free;

free from the things you want people to remember about you

but also free from the things you want them to forget

I don't know if that freedom exists for me anymore

And even though I dream about what it would be like

it's just a dream, because I realize now more than ever

that I can't have my cake and eat it too, no one can

And as time goes on, we will always be loved by some and hated by others

And whether the people who talk bad about you know it or not

they really save you from obscurity every time they mention your name

You see, anytime anybody ever talks about you, either directly or indirectly

they put a quarter in your immortal meter

They keep you alive, whether they want to or not

they practically do the opposite of what they want to do

which is forget you. I dedicate this song, to the day

when you motherfuckers finally figure it out

and the day that you bury me, and erase the memory of me

Here lies a man, who became forgotten to the world

in his search to the key for immortality

He never made an impact, he changed nothing

and his words meant nothing

He never contributed to the rap game;

he never gave you anything to talk about

He never existed, and he never made a difference

his name was nobody!