Clothes On A Mannequin

[Talking:]

Good Evening

[clears throat]

Ladies and gentlemen

I'd like to welcome everybody

Please take your seats

Please be seated

We have a great show lined up for everybody tonight

Special guest in the house tonight

Joe Budden, J.Garden

Let's... GO

[Hook:]

A wise man said we all wear a mask

At times keepin it on is too much of a task

Your face on the net, and your life's on blast

It might slip off, you gotta give me a pass

Sometimes I feel like a mannequin

But how they dress me don't make me the man I am

Not a rose don't hamper him

They just lookin' at the clothes on a mannequin

[Verse 1:]

Look, look, look

I want the best cars and the best flow

I want the best broads that's how that go

I mean I want to be a star and collect dough

But even if I had it all it'd be just for show

I want the diamonds to make my neck glow {Yeah}

Lust for the next hoe a love will never let go {Talk to 'em! }

I want to run along from my shortcomings {BUT! }

But I smoke so my breath gonna be short running {OHH! }

I want to be in control, hands on

If I'm the pilot then we will never land wrong {NEVER! }

But I want to have faith, staying strong

Take the first step when I ain't got a leg to stand on

I got a lot to give but I want more

With numb thoughts, positive but I'm unsure

On the misplace, getaway and it's disarray

And ya'll don't know the man just what he put on display {OHH! }

[Hook]

[Verse 2:]

I'm too annoyed to cope, tryna make a livin

Given I don't think that being a dope boy is dope

Out of every story, only 2 end in glory

Who am I to think I'm different than every hustler before me?

If I took my anger, became a gangbanger

I would aim to aim my anger at every stranger

Shawty wanna leave, honestly I can't blame her

Say the ones you love the most are always in the most danger

I talk a little slower so you have to hear

Dead man walkin, no tatted tears

Or realest to ever do it, cavalier

Hundred thousand dollar car, with rabbit ears

I don't welcome change even if it help 'em gain

Fuck a handout, I'd rather be self contained

L.V everything, lookin' well arranged

Y'all would never know that I'm practicing self restrain

[Hook]

[Verse 3:]

I been different, never mind I'm just indifferent

Ain't an old timer that would blame it on a skin pigment

Is it my imagination or a slim figment?

Or is gent ignant, probably why I'm indignant

Look at haters like 'why is it an issue? '

Is it because I'm sober but I'm on a high they can't get to?

God? fightin with his pride and his pitbull

God I was lied as it get to

Cursin' God out "why he decide to pick dude? "

I big bulls but when I try it's abyssmal

Die and keepin everythin inside me a riddle

But they blinded by the condo size and it's sick view

Whys, try and answer the whys

What good is havin eyes when everything you look at you despise? {Can anybody hear me? }

Or do you need ears when you don't believe anything you hear?

Maybe it's just something in the air