[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