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Just Because

By Joe Budden · Targeting Drake

Just Because is a diss track by Joe Budden targeting Drake. The 2016 Joe Budden–Drake dispute began after Budden publicly criticized Views and interpreted Drake records and guest verses as replies. Budden's sequence attacks Drake's authorship, changing personas, alliances and reluctance to answer him by name.

Released2016

Annotated2

ExplicitYes

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Lyrics & breakdown

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[Intro: Sample + Joe Budden ]
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You wonder why I stop and stare
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I gotta admit it man
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Every time you are near
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I have a confession to make
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Just because
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I love you man
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Just because
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Sometimes love hurts
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Just because
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It's gonna hurt me more than it's gonna hurt you though
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I love you
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[Verse 1]
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Look, listen, fuck is up with us? How we ain't agreeing?
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Sensitive thugs need hugs, just the game we in
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But if we ain't a team, I know what anger bring
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Angled in any language you want it, mons ain't a ting
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Is this a cry for help, show us the pain you in
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What's in your cranium, fuck it let's put the flame to aim
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Then they'll ask why I made him his most famous meme
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I just tell 'em love makes you do the strangest things
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They play at stadiums, I play at Stadium
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Shame, shame in 'em, really what's there to gain for 'em
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I see it weird though, fuck it we here though
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Order my Bane mask all glass to let the beard show
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Ain’t been dark in a while, pardon my style
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I mean, I think I hear my part in your style
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I can attach different acts to different parts of your style
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Yeah we let you act as if you had parts in your style, nah
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That's retarded, it couldn't be any farther out
Multi-line diss block
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But really ain't shit about it that's hard to doubt
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Ain't bothered 'bout it, you fathered your father's style
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Which makes you a grandfather, a clock I highly doubt
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “Ain't bothered 'bout it, you fathered your father's style,” Joe Budden brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The 2016 Joe Budden–Drake dispute began after Budden publicly criticized Views and interpreted Drake records and guest verses as replies. Budden's sequence attacks Drake's authorship, changing personas, alliances and reluctance to answer him by name. Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe 2016 Joe Budden–Drake dispute began after Budden publicly criticized Views and interpreted Drake records and guest verses as replies. Budden's sequence attacks Drake's authorship, changing personas, alliances and reluctance to answer him by name.
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You a hybrid, credited with the art of it now
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Evolved with a style and re-dressed it in garments from now
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So listen, that ain't my argument now
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Just looking back through the years, begging me not to involve it ‘til now
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So this a pep talk, shouldn't be no awkwardness now
Multi-line diss block
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Sweet as the birds and bees from a father to a child
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Look, I know sometimes you gotta father your child
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Like hit the yard for a while
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “Look, I know sometimes you gotta father your child,” Joe Budden brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The 2016 Joe Budden–Drake dispute began after Budden publicly criticized Views and interpreted Drake records and guest verses as replies. Budden's sequence attacks Drake's authorship, changing personas, alliances and reluctance to answer him by name. Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe 2016 Joe Budden–Drake dispute began after Budden publicly criticized Views and interpreted Drake records and guest verses as replies. Budden's sequence attacks Drake's authorship, changing personas, alliances and reluctance to answer him by name.
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But be back before it’s dark or pow-pow
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Rage ritual with startling growl
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Manufacturer of Coke, here go bars with a smile
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The shots coming though, crew been at this bar for a while
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The gun tucked, the snipe's out, you see us, cardigan down
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Advance for the singing nigga and the margin is wild
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Floetry, the same as Marsh' and them now
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Too bad the martian is out
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What song savin’ him when we in bargin’ in wild?
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Singers lose, better go and check Debarge and 'em now
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We heating up, you know the fire marshall in doubt
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Iron and irony, I ain't spoke to Marshall in a while
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He said "Budden get your stuff together
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You busy ruffling feathers"
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Bound to happen when you target an owl
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Now we not enemies, he just gotta bar up now
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I'm still on energy, let's see if he charged up now
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And I'll be sure he's in the secret garden I found
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With lions, tigers, bears, Tahiry, dolphins, wow
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[Outro: Joe Budden + Sample]
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You wonder why
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Bounce
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You wonder why
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Bounce
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You wonder why
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Bounce
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Just because
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Come on
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Bounce with me now
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Bounce
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You wonder why
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Bounce
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You wonder why
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Bounce with me now
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I just love you man
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It's all out of love
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You wonder why
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