| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| You eat, they eat, you shine, they shine | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| They hold you down, you hold them back | 
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| They ride, you ride, you ride, they ride | 
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| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| You eat, they eat, you shine, they shine | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| They hold you down, you hold them back | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| They ride, you ride, you ride, they ride | 
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| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| Nigga told me damn, my nigga, everything got here by self | 
| I told him I don’t give a damn how you get it, how you got it | 
| You ain’t get it by yourself | 
| If your soldiers ain’t eating, you the only one eating | 
| They ain’t riding for you no more | 
| That’s the shit, go to liquor, nigga, go to liquor fine, but they ain’t really | 
| wrong, though | 
| If they go to war, nigga, if they die for you, nigga, they supposed to eat, too | 
| And if they are on the frontline with you, my nigga, them nigga brought the | 
| ball, too | 
| Hold up, my nigga, hold up, my nigga, don’t get all to your all | 
| But when the time go to war, my nigga, you can’t call them to ride with you all | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| You eat, they eat, you shine, they shine | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| They hold you down, you hold them back | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| They ride, you ride, you ride, they ride | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| You eat, they eat, you shine, they shine | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| They hold you down, you hold them back | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| They ride, you ride, you ride, they ride | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| Every time I think I seen it all, a motherfucker show me something else | 
| I wanna show you that you really for your niggas, them the ones that you really | 
| supposed to help | 
| Not the ones that you just met, hoes you wanna fuck, ain’t talking about them | 
| I’m talking about the ones when it goes down you can pick up the phone and call | 
| them | 
| And you know that they coming, they ain’t asking no questions, they gonna ride | 
| to the end | 
| And if you lose it all tomorrow then the same motherfucker, he’ll be calling up | 
| again | 
| If you say that is love then it’s love, my nigga, be a man of your word | 
| If I’m showing you love, my nigga, give me the same damn thing | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| You eat, they eat, you shine, they shine | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| They hold you down, you hold them back | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| They ride, you ride, you ride, they ride | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| You eat, they eat, you shine, they shine | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| They hold you down, you hold them back | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| They ride, you ride, you ride, they ride | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| Keep it real with your people dem | 
| Keep it real with your people dem |