[Verse 1] ~#**************#~ And I started from the bottom ~#**************#~ Like a snowman—ground-up ~#**************#~ Like round chuck, and still put hands on you ~#**************#~ Stayin wound up is how I spend time (Get it?) ~#**************#~ Sucker free, confidence high ~#**************#~ Such a breeze when I pen rhymes ~#**************#~ I just got that air about me like wind chimes (Yeah) ~#**************#~ ‘Nother day in the life (Uh) ~#**************#~ Used to have to scrape to get by (Yeah) ~#**************#~ Now my communitys gated and I ~#**************#~ Made it and my neighbors say hi (Say hi) ~#**************#~ Im givin em pounds, Im upscale now ~#**************#~ Guess it means Im way in the sky (Way in the sky) ~#**************#~ But I still remember the days of ~#**************#~ Minimum wage for general labor ~#**************#~ Welfare recipient since a minor ~#**************#~ Look how government assistance has made ya! ~#**************#~ Adversity, if at first you dont succeed ~#**************#~ Put your temper to more use ~#**************#~ ‘Cause bein brokes a poor excuse ~#**************#~ That should only give you more fuel ~#**************#~ Show em why youre you ~#**************#~ So close, God, its like I almost got it ~#**************#~ But close only counts in time bombs and horseshoes ~#**************#~ So I Unabomb shit—tick, tick, tick—no remorse, pew! ~#**************#~ Screw it, Im lit, and that attitude I blew up on quick ~#**************#~ Thats why they call me firecracker ~#**************#~ I grew up on WIC—wick, wick, wick—with a short fuse ~#**************#~ I got some important news to report to ~#**************#~ Anyone who thought I was done: nah bitch, not quite ~#**************#~ Spotlights back on, got my faith, wheres yours? ~#**************#~ [Chorus] ~#**************#~ Do you still believe in me? ~#**************#~ Didnt I give everything I had to give you to make you see? ~#**************#~ Ill never forget if you turn your back on me now ~#**************#~ And walk out, I will never let you live it down ~#**************#~ Ill never quit, do you still believe in me? ~#**************#~ [Verse 2] ~#**************#~ Man, I know sometimes ~#**************#~ These thoughts can be harsh and cold as ice ~#**************#~ To me theyre just ink blots ~#**************#~ I just fling em like slingshots and so precise ~#**************#~ So you might wanna think it over twice (Yeah) ~#**************#~ Or you retards can roll the dice ~#**************#~ But beef will at least cost you your career ~#**************#~ ‘Cause even my cheap shots are overpriced ~#**************#~ But this middle fingers free as a bird ~#**************#~ Nuke warhead at birth, hugest forehead on Earth ~#**************#~ Too short for the verse, studied his formula, learned ~#**************#~ How to incorporate a curse ~#**************#~ Point it towards corporate America ~#**************#~ Stick a fork in and turn ~#**************#~ ‘Cause four-letter words are more better heard ~#**************#~ The world force-fed a turd to me, youre getting yours ~#**************#~ But sometimes I overdo it, but I just get so into it ~#**************#~ I was there consolin you when no one knew it ~#**************#~ When your situation showed no improvement ~#**************#~ I was that door, you walked over to it ~#**************#~ Im the light at the end of the tunnel ~#**************#~ So people are always lookin to me as theyre goin through it ~#**************#~ When that tunnel vision is unclear ~#**************#~ Shit becomes too much to bear ~#**************#~ Since “Cleanin Out My Closet” ~#**************#~ When I was havin trouble with the snare ~#**************#~ Im that unrealistic prayer answered ~#**************#~ And Ima get you jacked up like youre tryna fix a flat, uh ~#**************#~ When you struggle with despair ~#**************#~ That double-fisted, bare-knuckles coupled with this pair ~#**************#~ Of nuts Im cuppin, I am your ‘fuck it switch, nothin can compare ~#**************#~ [Chorus] ~#**************#~ Do you still believe in me? ~#**************#~ Didnt I give everything I had to give you to make you see? ~#**************#~ Ill never forget if you turn your back on me now ~#**************#~ And walk out, I will never let you live it down ~#**************#~ Ill never quit, do you still believe in me? ~#**************#~ [Verse 3] ~#**************#~ Started from the bottom like a snowman ~#**************#~ Oh man, put that in your corncob pipe and smoke that ~#**************#~ But my batterys low, Ima need a boost to my pack ~#**************#~ And I know that I always got Proof at my back ~#**************#~ I called you “Proof” because I knew for a fact ~#**************#~ My ace in the hole, homie, Im callin on you ~#**************#~ ‘Cause I think Im slowly startin to lose faith in it, so ~#**************#~ Give me that inkling and mo– ~#**************#~ –tivation to go, Hussein with the flow ~#**************#~ Fake fans that are two-faced didnt show ~#**************#~ Let heartbeats loop, produce hate in my soul ~#**************#~ Layin vocals two days in a row ~#**************#~ True statement, hate to go down this road ~#**************#~ But theres only one route to cross this bridge ~#**************#~ So I walk in this bitch with loose change ~#**************#~ ‘Cause all my dues paid, but this booths takin its toll ~#**************#~ But its never too late to start a new beginnin ~#**************#~ That goes for you too, so what the fuck you gon do? ~#**************#~ Use the tools youre given! ~#**************#~ Or youre gon use the cards youre dealt ~#**************#~ As an excuse for you to not do shit with em? ~#**************#~ I used to play the loser/victim ~#**************#~ ‘Til I saw the way Proof was driven ~#**************#~ I found my vehicle and I havent ran out of gas yet ~#**************#~ And when they stacked decks, turn handicaps into assets ~#**************#~ Fanny packs, hourglasses ~#**************#~ If time was on my side, Id still have none to waste ~#**************#~ Man, in my younger days ~#**************#~ That dream was so much fun to chase ~#**************#~ Its like Id run in place ~#**************#~ While this shit dangled in front of my face ~#**************#~ But how do you keep up the pace ~#**************#~ And the hunger pangs once youve won the race? ~#**************#~ When that dual exhaust is coolin off ~#**************#~ ‘Cause you dont got nothin left to prove at all ~#**************#~ ‘Cause you done already hit em with the coup de grâce ~#**************#~ Still you feel the need to go full tilt ~#**************#~ That Bruce Willis, that Blue Steel, that true skill ~#**************#~ When that wheels loose, I wont lose will ~#**************#~ Do you still believe?