Best And Worst - JohnnieB

Lyrics

( Johnnie B On The Beat ) I’m the best and the worst in the same damn placement, A white boy rapping with a real-life wound and a pen full of painful statements. Y’all want a label for the whole damn man, but the truth got too many faces, Mad at a human being made for balance, ’cause you can’t understand my phases. Now I’m all these different things, ’cause I carry both sides like a walking contradiction, Big John with the love, Little Johnnie with the hate, JohnnieB is the damn collision. I’m not one little box, not one little lie, not one little internet opinion, I’m the gray in the black and white fight when the world keeps begging division. Remember, I’m the in-between, the one they can’t name when they’re stuck on basics, The one who can pray in the morning, then cuss that night when the pain gets shameless. I guess it just takes big-ass balls to stand in the middle and fucking say this, I might put the best and worst of myself on the same damn playlist. ’Cause y’all still stuck on the old me like I never turned any damn pages, Trying to judge the full-grown man off the juvenile Johnnie stages. Like did you miss the whole point when I warned you this shit had ranges? Every song is a mirror, dumb fuck, not a courtroom building cases. All I did was tell the truth, now they act like truth is dangerous, Half these people only know my name from a first-name basis. They don’t know the nights, don’t know the fights, don’t know the shit that made this, But they still run their mouth like they watched God himself create this. Hook So bring my best and bring my worst, like I ain’t met both fucking first, I’ve been the blessing and the curse, the church bell and the hearse. I got love in one hand, hate in the other, still walking through the dirt, When JohnnieB got thrown to the flames, I came back wearing the burn. So bring my best and bring my worst, I already know what I’m worth, I had to bleed through every verse just to turn pain into work. I was cursed with a curse to reverse every word that ever hurt, So bring my best and bring my worst, motherfucker, I was both from birth. Verse 2 You say you know me, but I would remember all you goofy-ass faces, If only you knew what I really knew from the way this pen traces. I reflect on my past, then I burn it clean and turn the pages, I guess you could say JohnnieB keeps going through fucking changes. Even my egos got egos, even my phases got phases, Big John forgives the room while Little Johnnie burns the places. JohnnieB stands in the middle with both hands full of consequences, Trying to make sense out of life while y’all keep jumping fences. How many damn marks do I gotta make about myself to prove it? I already owned my flaws, so your little shots don’t move shit. You can use my past mistakes like you found some secret weapon, But I already did that time in my mind and learned every lesson. Now it’s my turn to judge the judge and put your past on trial, Difference is, I repaid mine while you hid yours with a smile. You copied the worst of me and called it your own damn style, But you couldn’t carry the best of me for half of a fucking mile. I’m love and hate, faith and doubt, sinner and saint in motion, I’m the calm and the rage, the flood and the frozen ocean. I’m the yin and the yang with a human heart still open, I’m the wound and the healing, the blade and the devotion. So go ahead, copy me like y’all always do, But when you copy one side, you miss the whole damn truth. You can be loud, be proud, be mad, be fake, be cursed, But you’ll never be JohnnieB, ’cause I’m both best and worst. Hook So bring my best and bring my worst, like I ain’t met both fucking first, I’ve been the blessing and the curse, the church bell and the hearse. I got love in one hand, hate in the other, still walking through the dirt, When JohnnieB got thrown to the flames, I came back wearing the burn. So bring my best and bring my worst, I already know what I’m worth, I had to bleed through every verse just to turn pain into work. I was cursed with a curse to reverse every word that ever hurt, So bring my best and bring my worst, motherfucker, I was both from birth.