Badman

Lyrics

[Hook] No one knows what it's like To be the bad man To be the sad man Behind blue eyes No one knows what it's like To be hated To be faded To telling only lies [Verse 1: N.O.R.E] You see they dissed me in that resource room, a special ed classic Now I make special bread, special bastard Taught to believe I couldn't achieve, and wasn't smart enough Couldn't be a lawyer, but a carpenter What they installed in my head, I feel braindead Said I should just work with my hands because my brain dead Said "Mr. Santiago, you could never be a doctor You could never be a judge, you don't even speak proper Probably gonna be a boxer, athlete or something like" Disability, my A.D.D. was something like Thoughts in a straitjacket, brain's in a wheelchair Feeling like I'm handicapped, still feel I'm still there Break it down for you niggas through the syllables Paint a picture for you motherfuckers through the visual While some niggas, wind up dead in hospitables Little niggas grow up fast to hard criminals [Hook] [Verse 2: Beanie Sigel] Somehow, we supposed to make it out this bitch Either coke or hoops, and my jump shot ain't shit I'm no athlete, but I can make the cocaine flip On the back street, got smokers running in like a track meet Stress'll take a young nigga and give him a old face Or stress'll take a dumb nigga and give him a new case Foolish pride, before I beg, I tighten my lace Get that thing out the dresser, put you niggas under pressure like You pay me or pay the funeral home Nigga, what you expected? Get mine or get nekkid I bang out like an old Western Stickups and killings to fix the leaks in my ceilings Cause being broke at 30 giving niggas the chills And when you broke your kids hungry and they eating no frills Before I turn in my cards and fold Man, I'm gon play that bad guy role Nigga, that's all I know [Hook]