| The Dark ½
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| Truthfully
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| TRUTHFULLY
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| Me tell you truthfully, me not no gangster, man
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| The FBI calls me nerd in the burbs with the street connection
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| But don’t think seh me no keep protection
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| Me say de word and the deed occurs, just how me give direction
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| Now really, answer this important question.
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| The men who talk never do… and the ones who do… they never
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| talk… and the one who speaks in riddles, man… that ain’t no
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| middle man
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| Him have de master plan, in other words the Don,
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| You think me crazy when me tell you seh me don’t discriminate
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| Now what the youth deh upon?
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| To make a million, that aint no thing, but the question is…
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| How can you keep it clean? |
| You see?
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| Dem want you rot inna jail about 200 years
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| Two uncles shot down in cold blood, I can feel the tears,
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| Me know the way to the top don’t have no thug appeal,
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| This hustlin' not going stop till I’m Elysian Fields.
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| CHORUS
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| We taking over the game, If you don’t know you better ask somebody
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| (So get ya mind right)
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| You talk that killa shit, me tell you truthfully, killing is bad for business
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| It’s better that you be done in a car accident, that way my hands are clean
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| I’m at your funeral with a thousand dollar wreath
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| But there’s no profit in beef… an otherwise running smooth operation
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| Caught up inna de controversy, and dealing with these police will make you
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| Long for the days of eternal money, and everlasting peace
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| Not sure if you realize just who you’re dealing with, you run that B S with us
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| We get it over quick
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| We’ve come too far now to quit, so either we’ll handle it like gentlemen,
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| Or we’ll get into some gangster shit.
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| CHORUS
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| Me tell you truthfully, I don’t like talking you see. |
| Me na go tell you one word
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| Without my legal team. |
| With every stroke of the pen I have to think about
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| The statute of limitations when it’s running out.
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| But you go ahead tricking off all that game on dem tracks, What it be
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| essentially
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| Is like you snitching on wax
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| This is for my dogs in the pen. |
| Yea we doin' it for them, I got some guys in
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| the FED
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| They wouldn’t appreciate that. |