
Date of issue: 15.12.2013
Record label: The Jokerr
Song language: English
Sidekick |
Hey there Swizzle, guess who it is, it’s your old pal Jokerr and I’m giving you |
the biz |
Because socio politically, we’re never eye to eye |
But you’re not a bad guy, and I consider you a friend |
Frie-friends don’t tell friends what they want to hear |
They’ve always said a good friend is a human mirror |
I don’t know who you have, but I’ll be there for you |
I know it’s gotta be tough In the background |
Looking at the crowd go nuts over that sound |
And show after show, that you never headline, which how you long to do |
Whoa, and I know it’s gotta be sad (Sing your minds out) |
Seeing what you want so bad (From the sideline) |
Ohh poor Swizzle, I can’t even imagine, what you going through, I mean |
It’s gotta be, so so hard |
To be a sidekick, stuck living in the shadow of a giant |
So so hard |
With everybody watching when you know they’ll never understand |
It’s gotta be |
So so hard |
To be a sidekick, it doesn’t matter how popular you might get |
So so hard |
When your whole identity’s defined by the efforts of another man |
It’s gotta be |
Hard on tour, knowing in your mind |
If you didn’t show up, the show would go along fine |
Cause, nobody wants to hear the right hand man, |
You and Krizz Kaliko could probably start your own hype man band |
Oh sure, you can both tour, go and hit the road, and everything you vote for, |
could be so yours |
Oh man, it’d be so grand, look about performing at a whole damn show of only |
your fans |
There’d be no Hop, no Dizzy, no Dame |
No half of ten percent of half the dough that the show bringed |
Everybody singing out your songs, buying your merch, girls wearing your shirts, |
screaming your name |
Ooh-Ooh, think of that show, the opening act’s closed, the lights turn on, |
you step on stage to that crowd dream |
And all ten crickets in the crowd sings |
It’s gotta be tough on the sideline, watching all the rappers grind, |
tryna get a little something going |
When you just sit there in your room on your lazy ass, getting thousands of |
dollars of free promotion |
I couldn’t help but to notice how you talk about rich folks never give enough |
to help the people at the bottom |
Hey, but you sit and get your career fed to you on silver spoon of courtesy of |
Hopsin |
~It's got to be hard~ |
Hey there Swizzle, what’s there to do, when the whole world’s moving on without |
poor you |
While Dizzy already dropped his album |
Four years and you’re stilling sitting there without one |
I hate to be the one to break it to you baby boy |
But I’mma make you face the facts, many may avoid: |
You’re not as good an artist as you think you are |
You don’t shoot your own videos, Hop produces every beat you ever rocked, |
and even does your mixes, so |
How much you expecting to be given yo, I mean are you gonna be able to stand up |
and take it upon yourself to get your own |
No, no, no |
I didn’t figure so, so until you get your own fans, bitch zip it close |
My apologies, I shoudn’t let it bother me, I mean after all… |
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Laughin at You ft. The Jokerr, Vinnie Paz | 2018 |
The Rafters | 2019 |
Short Changed | 2019 |
Halloween Night | 2019 |
Illusions for the King ft. The Jokerr | 2014 |
When the Night Comes (feat. Optymus) ft. Optymus, The Jokerr | 2014 |
All Out ft. Tale the Rapper, The Jokerr | 2013 |
Permanent Sunburn | 2020 |
Sing My Song | 2020 |
Mirror Man | 2020 |
Make Way! | 2020 |
Paper Doll | 2020 |
Where My Home Is | 2020 |
One Man Army | 2013 |
Don't Try (feat. Cryptic Wisdom & Dubbs) | 2015 |
I'm Grewsum | 2013 |
The Real One | 2013 |
Everybody Wants It | 2013 |
Don't Show Kavy | 2013 |
Here We Go | 2013 |