Bad News (Nobody's Somebody)

[Kanye West]: Didn't you know I was waiting on you Waiting on a dream that'll never come true Didn't you know I was waiting on you My face turned to stone when I heard the news When you decide to break the rules Cause I just heard some real bad news [XV]: I'm like one mess away from picking up a mop And one question away from if my album drops Will I make to the stage but never get any props? Niggas don't got time for me so they don't watch Places where I've been, I run into past friends Say "You still do music?" and it makes me just want to stop Niggas making top ten lists And I've paid my dues like rent so I deserve my spot Yeah, my rap peers try to shun me You sprinting in a marathon trying to outrun me Mickey Factz charging for tracks like he outdone me When I said, "Let's do something" when he wasn't doing nothing But I get it, music business needs business Bet if I was from New York shit'll be different But I'm just a boy from Kansas just spitting So I gotta take my crown cause they wouldn't fucking give it The fan base I got really means a lot Fly Boy Club tees at every show I rock But will I act like them when I pop? Get Mistah F.A.B.s intern and start charging for drops? Sometimes I ask how they don't know my name Six years ago I was featured on hiphopgame A few years after that I was fucking with Game Onpoint, Whoo Kid, who's The Kid In The Green? Back Pack, that's rap through the eyes of me The kid that nobody listens to, they aspire to be I reached out to Herfection, wasn't looking in my direction So I guess my talent see ain't required to see Nerdy kids being admiring me My mom said, "Just live for what you dying to be." I'm dying to see the day that I finally get on Sometimes I think I wanna make it just to prove people wrong I did this song on my own and never asked for handouts I think I don't fit in but I never stand out Frustrated with the game in a room with no windows So I turn on the track and decided to air it out Am I saying something they don't really care about? Cause me talking about clothes will probably just wear them out Haha! How could the blogs say I'm not nice? The only dude from Wichita that's been on Nahright '09 so time to show and prove My flow better — My show improved The Kid With The Green Back Pack is on the move And if this sound don't do it I don't know what to do Cause I'm dealing with real shit in my real life Cause when you left it all, how do you feel right? The quiet type so I don't say much So every girl I talked to I lost in them holiday months Valentine's coming up, Patrick's Day around the corner So they all fall in love cause I don't got time for 'em Then I lost my phone with a few on my connects Never expected that would bring me closer to my ex They say I'm just a W away From putting the W in the game And that statement make me wanna think different Cause I'm helping the niggas that was saying I was lame I'm about my dollars but I will never change If you obscure and I don't like you, I won't like you with the fame I told Seven I'mma try to be the same And never turn into these new niggas in the game I don't wear chains or Bapes or tattoos And to say I ain't nice you gotta be cashews So when Everybody's Nobody is that dude Tell them cats who ain't listen that you got some bad news