The Future

[Joe Budden]

How y'all feelin out there?

maybe y'all ain't hear me...

I said how is everybody feelin out there!?!?

y'all aight?

I'm feelin...

Dub B is sooo soulfulllllll

nah mean..

this is what you call mood muzik right here..

I'm feelin....

(oh.....)

incredible

(unhhhh)

C'MONNNN

[Chorus: sample voice]

whoaaaaa..... that's what the future holds in meee..

don't you wanna seeeee

[Joe Budden]

I feel like I'm ahead of my time, like I'm ahead lets rewind

I feel like I've never felt feel like I'm ahead of my prime

I feel like my feelings feel like they maybe feel intertwined

'tween incognito and shine I'm being caught in the lime

feel like I'm stuck in a fight when the future ain't feelin bright

I put the pencil down, feeling unwanted, and go on strike

but then I'm struck by the light that ain't how you properly strike

but the ball be over the plate and they still don't call it a strike

I mean I honestly try, I feel like I try in vain

start doin a lil different shit always just stay the same

theres a good in every bad when theres loss I know theres gain

I appreciate the love but I'm living with all the pain

I hate when the sun is out, but love whenever it rains

and God be sending me signs like my future is preordained

my timing keep gettin fucked, the wires still havent came

and all I do is object but my shit ain't never sustained

wonder if I keep on trying then will I finally attain

wonder if I'll ever feel like I got nobody to blame, MAYNE!

[Chorus]

How's everybody doin out there?

y'all good?..

I'm great

[Joe Budden]

I told mommy when I was five that I would strive to be a lawyer

or a doctor took the opt. to hangin out with the mobsters

now he's a hip hop'sta, no more general Tso's

orderin shrimp and lobster mommy look at how I prospered

look at what I've become but still I feel like a bum

emotional strain can't be replaced by any son

emotionally drained, insides prolly look like a slum

just give me a bag of weed, just give me a shot of rum

no better yet give me none, no mommy I won't succumb

not that- almost forgot I stopped that when I was young

some people do it for pleasure some people do it for fun

but I remember it well, that dust used to have 'em strung

I wonder what I've become but why am I overlooked

I want 'em to understand but still I'm misunderstood

I keep on taking suggestions I'm wondering if I should

I know you see the potential, I know you see that I could

bumpin Ludacris, 'Child Of The Night' was well put

why is everything so BAD for me FEEL so GOOOOODDDD

[Chorus]

I hope everybody still aight..

[Joe Budden]

I know niggaz that never made it everybody would sweat him

he jumped out the whole park, NBA never met him

what good is being open if the guards never fed him

he'd have been the illest nigga but niggaz just never let him

maybe Trey'll grow up and be somewhat of a star

wearing all the latest things and pushin the latest cars

maybe he'll hold me down same way I do for my father

or really resent me feel like why should he even bother

maybe me and his momma will finally jjust get along

maybe not- but the idea sounds good in a song

maybe one day the world'll see how great he performs

long journey to walk on my feet to take the corns

open my mind, say you was right and I was wrong

nah that's wrong one day I'll rightfully right my wrongs

and start over anew like that one night I was born

show a girl I really care, one day that pride'll be gone

See he overcame alot, he just the same as his pops

So one day he'll be alright when that rain finally stops, C'MON!!

[Chorus]

how's everybody feelin out there?

huh?

aaaoooowwww

huh?

are you in that mood yet?

maybe y'all ain't hear me

are you in that mood yet???!!

owww

I know I am

talk to 'em

aaooowww

let my beat ride out C4

aoowww