| 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, 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 |
| 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… |
| 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 |