| Yeah, the first night I spent in California
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| I was homeless on Venice Beach, yeah
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| It was all a dream
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| Came to California at seventeen
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| Little nigga tryna bubble up from the crack scene
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| It got so complicated, then I graduated
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| Haters so mad I made it
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| How could I fly so high, only to feel so low?
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| How do they live so fast only to grow so slow?
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| Like when you showing no support for your kids
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| But got money for marijuana just to smoke with your friends
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| Or that woman who survives and beats cancer
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| Only to be drowned in debt with no answers
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| The frequency of tragedy, it happens so rapidly
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| That we became numb, we embraced this insanity
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| Some wack-job haul off and smoke his whole family
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| Reality T.V. that’s not based in reality
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| Stuck watching train wrecks, everybody going for self
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| Self worth is important but for money and wealth
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| This mentality of «me, fuck everything else»
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| It’s a virus, a disease, I’m a victim myself
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| But I swear before I leave, I’mma fix it, I swear
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| I’mma fix it, I swear, yo, you better beware
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| Rich boy kill his own wife, knocks her teeth out
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| Cuts her fingers off, then escapes with a suicide
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| The king of pop died, Michael Vick was fighting dogs
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| But he walked and did his time, let him throw the fucking ball
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| As the markets keep crashing and people get desperate
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| Putting faith in the false feeling so disrespected
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| Turn to this record, the highest form of understanding
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| Understand me, fight or flight for your family
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| Come, walk with a soldier
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| Come, talk with a soldier, yeah
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| Cinderblock stop shooting straight from the shoulder
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| As we all get older and hope falls over
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| And damn, you were six years sober
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| And just like that, now you back where you started, square one
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| And you can’t bring it back once that bullet leave the gun
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| As the planner gets smaller, prepare for the North American Union
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| A (?) to replace your dollars
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| Narcissistic society, love paparazzi
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| Get to Starbucks for your overpriced latte
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| Ignoring all the signs, «nevermind» is your mindstate
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| Until the end of time, shit is closer than you think man
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| I done been in situations where the only thing that I could do was read the
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| Bible
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| Went in to the hill, child, with a sharpened piece of metal, the only way of
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| survival
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| Made up my mind that I don’t ever wanna return, chance was given again
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| Now I’m back out in the world, made a promise to God for living in sin
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| I can never lie to God but it’s so hard to live right
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| I’m carrying seven-point-six-twos to fistfights
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| Ain’t nobody playing fair, they cheat, no cheat
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| I ain’t fitting to be the topic of the preacher’s eulogy speech
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| The word say, «turn the other cheek» that’s what they teach us
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| But Peter sliced the ear of a nigga rolling on Jesus
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| I don’t want applause I’m doing what I’m supposed to do
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| I’m a real nigga, one from a million, chosen few
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| Everlasting pain has got my brain, it’s like it’s trapped inside a maze
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| Have you been unfaithful to the game?
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| Damn shame
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| Eighteen years, you never believed him
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| That’s your son, go and see him, motherfucker
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| You fucked his mother
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| The goddamn common courtesy never applied to you
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| 'Cause you thought she lied to you
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| You couldn’t see your own mother in his face
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| If you die, he’ll be in a better place, bring the tape back |