I Wanna Know [explicit] Lyrics - Joe Budden

How's everybody feeling out there? We good? 

Let's talk to the sample right quick 

I always pictured we'd be 

It go like this. Listen 

Let me tell you how I pictured this 

A few houses, a couple businesses 

Striving for greatness, we would be each other's witnesses 

And during beef, we both would put aside our differences 

Where I ain't flinch a bit making you insignificant 

Maybe kids and shit, perfect arithmetic 

Meaning we could build our own world and co-exist in it 

She a synergy, sharing energy 

Let our souls mate in the air if you remember me 

Now here's what I did with it 

Went out my way to fuck these stripper chicks 

Lost good girls making them mistresses 

Just savages, missed marriages 

They all was my babies, I needed those miscarriages 

My worthless self when Joe felt hurt 

I went out and targeted women who had no self worth 

I relate to praying nightly feeling no spell work 

When you can do it, but a stranger gotta go help first 

I called moms on the phone, here's what I told her real quick 

I said my 20s flew by with no control of the shit 

Her next sentence swear that I'll forever hold with a grip 

She said it go by even faster as the older you get 

I wanna never dumb down, I'd have to lower my wit 

Ain't gotta post this on the Gram for you to know what it is 

A partner to trust, I'm thinking even bigger for us 

Mom should've told me this when we had shit to discuss 

Now neither one of us is how we figured we'd be 

Sometimes the thought of what if still lives here with me 

I always pictured we'd be 

Nah'mean? That's how I see it in my head though 

Ain't quite pan out like that. Word up 

Let me tell you about some more of God's work though 

I wanna know what this life's supposed to be like 

I wanna know, wanna know, ah 

I wanna know what this love's supposed to be like 

I wanna know, wanna know 

Nah, I like it just like that, Parks, let it run 

Lemme go right here, right here, right here 

Look, Look 

A love that's tideful, never prideful 

If you're truly better without me how can I spite you? 

As I yearn for the greatest love I ever had 

Pardon me, kid, I'm still learning how to be a dad 

We be in spots you shouldn't be in 'till you grown 

I was absent so long I'm just not leaving you home 

So nah, too much to learn, too much world out there 

Let me teach you about these hoes, too many girls out there 

I respect your mom's tutelage 

But that's my weird and my brain, what's she gon' do with this? 

Watch and learn, foolish kid 

Eyes light up with surprise, you're just like I am 

I think that you're enjoying this ride just like I am 

Look, same pedigree, theoretically 

Cut from a cloth that was gone, that's just genetically 

One job in life to make you a much better me 

Greater feeling than I imagine this shit would ever be 

You be feeling strong when you diss me in songs 

I did the same my whole career, would never tell you it's wrong 

Whatever works out, whatever the price, get that embedded 

Even if at my expense, I'll pay it, you take the credit 

Had a power struggle when I thought your mom abused it 

My hands were in bondage, useless 

Beyond the excuses, calm through it 

It's crazy, our bond music 

And we do it beautifully for our beautiful conduit 

So right now I stand in a place I never stood before 

Finally filled the void in my life, I wasn't good before 

Fucking with these hoes, that energy I was putting forth 

God, this was more like the fucking love I was looking for 

Now it's better than we pictured it'd be 

And the supervised visits, we'll never have to relive it 

Little nigga we'll be 

This is greater than us. Greater than me 

Greater than anything I could ever imagine, man 

I ain't talking to everbody 

Trey, what up though? What up? What up? 

I wanna know what this life's supposed to be like 

I wanna know, wanna know, ah 

I wanna know what this love's supposed to be like 

I wanna know, wanna know 

I wanna know what this life's supposed to be like 

I wanna know, wanna know, ah 

I wanna know what this love's supposed to be like 

I wanna know, wanna know