HOOK i never was in it for the dough, money comes and money goes hands up at our shows, here we go YOU AIN'T KNOW?! J.Al a little more than what you're used to the kid is nice and the children are the future i deal with snakes in my face, no medusa funny if dumbed down music brightens your day and helps you get through, sir now who are you sir? the world call me J.Al success makes 'em think i owe them now, no paypal, uh and i'll be damned if they take me on the way down get down and lay down, boy i don't play now hanging rappers by their ankles, yeah this the shake down any more slick talking, i'm pulling rappers ranks out 'cause everybody thinks they know what to say but if you knew that, you wouldn't switch up everyday but if you knew better, you'd do better, that's all i'll say and we're maneuvering through any obstacle in our way WOO i'ma tell you like kat stacks told me hey, hey, hey... run through rappers all day HOOK i never was in it for the dough, money comes and money goes hands up at our shows, here we go YOU AIN'T KNOW?! Jova a little more than what you're used to i come through with the view to boost the resolution, no problems houston, uh table for two with some room for some do-what-it-do's pouting dudes use the powder rooms, and get them a booster adjust your attitude, or get moved to reclusive and who knew what we'd be doing just to prove-uh AGH, we just kept it moving, just potential doesn't do much yeah, and you can still check the status still attract the masses with crack-tastic, addict, past average, blast in traffic, vocab that lacks wackness and mad rappers spazzing 'cause they don't have it tragic, watching them all hack it out to try and claim who's the hardest when they're all made of plastic yeah, and i'm not saying i'm tough, but the pressure's on us, and these surroundings are rough HOOK i never was in it for the dough, money comes and money goes hands up at our shows, here we go YOU AIN'T KNOW?!

Jova it's like this y'all, not doing this small it's like when i hit malls, i only shop the big-tall mr. fly I, and, you missed the lift off now passer by eyes are looking like they're pissed off would love for a pitfall to hit me and then talk before you begin talk, apply plenty lip gloss you're looking like a miss (ms.) aww, did i forget to end it with a rhyme for it, bet i'll be on your mind a bit watch me up and climb on it, i'll spend a lot of time on it i'll kick back, recline on it, my own parking sign on it is what i got, half a mind to get the other half is for the rhymes i kick, and dimes i get and time a spent combining them the whole world cosigning this and the mics i smash at shows, what i show? lets just say, you'd like my ass and life's tests i never tried to pass but send the test back lightning fast it just so happens i'm the top of my whole class. ya yep, that's right J.Al his candy bars will never lead him to a payday roger that, but all the comp be yelling, mayday uh, this ain't for play play J did it, i'm not sorry your girl's the only female invited to bachelor parties hardy hardy, i make myself chuckle it's beat-freaks on deck, but you, you'd rather cuddle they say i'm something that's troubled, tell him his dog will get muzzled my team is nice, you unfamiliar? fuck out of my huddle and i been blessed with 19 years, but for 19 i been trying to fight these tears big dreams now, so i got to fight these fears they didn't make it, so they';; be damned if you make it, bitch yep, that's right J-I-R like i handed them a warhead, i watch friends get sour at me if y'all still sleeping on me, then y'all must be power napping and i'm still making hits out my blackberry brainstorm next to pics of me and two backs in position, like an I-form she's got the hots for him, bad girls come in threes she swarms me, my honey, and these killer bees and i burn down, as if it soothes my needs so i'm sorry if i can't see the forest for all these trees my pub means, i can't breathe long nights and short days it's like i'm tied underwater, y'all that like them fame is mermaids watch out for swimfans, this pool is crowded enough so if your toes don't touch, then you shouldn't swim with us try and act like we don't do this and if they're after all my jewish, then i turn this into munich steve nash, like i get the ass, then i pass and you know she don't like to do that so why did you even ask yep, that's right

Jova it's 7:50, and my alarm goes off at 8 i'm not quite asleep, i'm not quite awake you know the time when your mind is blind to what you're really living when your dreams seem to be most vivid i'm everywhere i want to be, everywhere i ought to be everywhere i'm gonna be, not only when i fall asleep where the baddest girls all throw their drawers at me, and pass an AIDS test flawlessly snooze wait, where was i at, i don't know where i was, but i'd like to go back so i replace the place with he sky, and this place i can fly but then i, get high, and i get a little scared i know i can fly, but i don't know where i look down, and the ground's not there, so i'm falling... i thank God that real world's calling now i'm awake HOOK (Justina) it's so alarming wake up J.Al it's 7:50 and my alarm goes off at 8 at this point, reality is not too great i wouldn't mind, i'm not asking to die before i wake but awake over a wake is valid in this state patience a virtue, but i can't wait i'm good, but i want great, so i cover my face and welcome back to this dream like mase but how long before i can see my own fate i'm running out of time, but clocks don't pace i'm living every line, but still people hate only a matter of time before good goes great so why dwell on every single problem they create i ain't stressing though been put here with hella blessings for a reason to make this work even though it's moving hella slow wow so there you go, live life like there's no tomorrow, so there's no sorrow now i'm awake HOOK (Justina) it's so alarming wake up

those guys, that's right what up i'm a rocker, i'm a roller once again... it's those guys J.Al they label me an outcast, but i'm not big boi i talk real life, thick knots, and big toys i'm a rocker, i'm a roller 'cause the flow is so potent catch me once a year on some locust tip, notice it now who better than i, that gets cheddar and fly to infinity and be-ah, be-ah sold out show seller, more fitted than new era homie tell who's better... whatever HOOK (Picasso) i'm a rocker, i'm a roller press the game til it's over Jova take notes, i'm dope verbatim fake posers turn noses, i hope they hate him yeah, try and jade him but i suppose how i heart the cold shoulder is part of what made him i take boulders, do joe, and make gravel girls say they're wrapped up, but with ease i unravel tell the beat, grab a saddle i'm buck-buckin' for bucks, knucks up now what's up, try your luck HOOK (Picasso) i'm a rocker, i'm a roller press the game til it's over J.Al i thought i told you, my camp be going stupid hard, waiting the whole fit clean like i wear around an apron uh, what you expect from a rock star? i break windows and break off lady parts my mind is crazy dark, with no light to spark the flow is heroin, morphine and tylenol i got love for the game, but hate all of y'all and the lead is so big, i'm about to jog HOOK (Picasso) i'm a rocker, i'm a roller press the game til it's over Jova they wonder how i'm sky fly but they guy never high claim he's saying lies but you have to analyze lies don't fly so they can't come from i and i so define that i cant land from sky hands wave bye if you're still ground dwelling if you're taking off as well, it's just as well, and i wish you well, i'll be gone for a spell if you can't tell, they can't see me, i'm so stealth HOOK (Picasso) i'm a rocker, i'm a roller press the game til it's over

HOOK check where i'm at and where i'm aiming to go a lot of changing for the places and the faces i know uh huh, a lot of people where i'm at want to know when am i gon' come back once i get where i'm going home is where the heart is, and the heart is where i stay at i tell them home is where the heart is, and the heart is where i stay at J.Al look i'd rather be coming up where they hate at than be fucking in poverty trying to find where i'ma lay at give a fuck what they're feeling, how i'm feeling, i'ma say that you can B.E.T. that MTV couldn't sway that so play that, the dopest with the lines, tyrone biggums would ok that i promise i'ma find that fucking needle in that haystack so i pace that, like diddy bitch, take that and take that, don't fake that, cause i made that, and i make crack so here dude, the freshman of the year dude how you lose your drive, but still want to steer dude kevin federlines will get you britney speared dude this another wrath, just giving my brash view uh, and tell them boys i don't fear nigga uh, watch us pull off this here nigga uh, the talk of your ear they pop us in like kat williams, this shit right here nigga HOOK check where i'm at and where i'm aiming to go a lot of changing for the places and the faces i know uh huh, a lot of people where i'm at want to know when am i gon' come back once i get where i'm going home is where the heart is, and the heart is where i stay at i tell them home is where the heart is, and the heart is where i stay at Jova home sweet home, i can't leave it alone but i'm trying to leave my home in a hurry now why did we drive, we should have flown once we get where we're going i'ma tell my folks at home don't worry cause i wont forget i'm an environmental product, where it takes hard work and not luck i tell my little brother to watch, but not to get caught up in the shit that he can watch his little friends get swallowed by i remember all those places i'm bad with names, but remember all those faces schools and all the parks, parties and backyards my role models and mentors, they were all local same place where i reside and the same place i put on my bio 'til i die ohio is my place from little to grown the place i call home sweet, home sweet home HOOK check where i'm at and where i'm aiming to go a lot of changing for the places and the faces i know uh huh, a lot of people where i'm at want to know when am i gon' come back once i get where i'm going home is where the heart is, and the heart is where i stay at i tell them home is where the heart is, and the heart is where i stay at

J.Al so everybody around the way wanna know who i are forget all that, baby, just know that i star i-i-i star, not him, not she, 'cause milli vanilli is far from me, he will say yeah the kid J got it to a science, my hypothesis is looking good i ain't lying, nah i ain't lying probably 'cause the flow facts no filler, you better? what you talking 'bout willis the grind endless, love them haters 'cause they all witness who's time is this, no news 'cause we all in this boy, you want the happiness? you need the will to persue that, the baby boy so trill b-b-b-banging out your speakers still and the background noise like keep it real y'all for real, doing music still? and i reply like this instead of staying ill HOOK my mama says what's that noise son i tell her, can't you hear? that's that poison coming from a place where they take good boys from and put them on a bad road, a bad road J.Al hm, and it ain't over 'til i win sad when you're closer to your dreams than you are close to your own kin marcus garvey with a pen so girls got my ear itching, i'm on their mind, kid's mouth piece like stewey griffin family guy, not i, my lois had been missing i could only talk to my dog, i'm stewey griffin but i made it out that sitcom by not sitting calm, i'm it ummmm now they brand us the crowd pleaser they screaming our name 'cause our performance so ether they say HOOOO, they like what it's costing not a thing, we're satisfied with more offspring and i does what you want to do example, chasing my dreams, they're like so true promise to God i'ma make a way it's J hyph' A-L and J-O-V-A HOOK my mama says what's that noise son i tell her, can't you hear? that's that poison coming from a place where they take good boys from and put them on a bad road, a bad road

HOOK have you ever seen a monster bad dreams, loud screams, it'll haunt ya you better start sleeping with the lights on don't like to be tested, not to be messed with you should be very scared, you should be very scared JOVA things go bump in the night, trust that that's when the trunk hits right but it's the same time when the kids just might get brave and then not come back you never really thought about it did you maybe thought about it but never lived through there once was a kid who thought he was harder than what we've been through ask if he lived too i don't explain shit to, i'm accustomed to suckers on the menu you should hope for the best and prepare for the worst 'cause the worst out there is tryna get you ... what? that's not scary enough? here's a couple things to be wary of that man that you see in the park, vanity in the dark the backseat when you can't see before the key hits the start whatever the dog is staring at when it barks urban legends just keep you reminded aways a little bit of truth behind it and if you go looking for it, you'll find it HOOK have you ever seen a monster bad dreams, loud screams, it'll haunt ya you better start sleeping with the lights on don't like to be tested, not to be messed with you should be very scared, you should be very scared J.Al i ain't never scared, on that bonecrusher even if they want it now, don't them rush you the phone ringing, who that be? eerie silence, don't go see and i ain't talking 'bout pixar, when i say i'm a monster with the ink but you guys is all mad sulley 'cause with the mic, your roar don't bother me they taking shots all at me, see we can spar, but you gon' lose more than teeth he wants to walk on the wild side and get at, now he ain't been seen in weeks i think i'm big meech, this the work, i whip it how willow be and i swear i tell them all day long, but you know how that be i'm in an all black tux, all black chucks J.Al's on it, come tame your pups, fall back, yup he gon' do what? no, no sir, i'm calling his bluff blacked out sneakers i'm looking like a swagged out version of the grim reaper keep saying describe your sound, so i ponder, then shout HOOK have you ever seen a monster bad dreams, loud screams, it'll haunt ya you better start sleeping with the lights on don't like to be tested, not to be messed with you should be very scared, you should be very scared