[Verse 1]

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

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

Oh, 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

Woah, I know it's gotta be sad (Sing your minds out)

Seeing what you want so bad (From the sideline)

Oh, poor Swizzle, I can't even imagine, what you going through, I mean

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 2]

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've hoped for could be so yours

Oh, man, it'd be so grand

Think 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 bring

Everybody singing now to your songs, buying your merch

Girls wearing your shirts, screaming your name

Oh, oh, think of that show

The opening act's closed, the lights turn low

And you step on stage to that proud dream

And all ten crickets in the crowd sing

[Chorus]

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

[Bridge]

Break it down now, here we go, uh

[Verse 3]

It's gotta be tough on the sidelines watching all the rappers grind

Tryna get a little something going

While you just sit there in your room on your lazy ass

Getting thousands of dollars of free promotion

I couldn't help but 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 gotta be hard, it's gotta be hard

It's gotta be hard

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 4]

Oh, 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 still sitting there without one

Now, I hate to be the one to break it to you, baby boy

But I'm gonna make you face the fact many may avoid

You're not as good an artist as you think you are (As you think you are)

Ha, you don't shoot your own videos

Hop produces every beat you've ever rocked and even does your mixing, 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)

Ha, I didn't figure so

So until you get your own fans, bitch, zip it closed

My apologies

I shouldn't let it bother me, I mean after all–

[Chorus]

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