Exposed

I’m feeling exposed, naked and all alone

So many think where I’ve been

Only a few know where I’m about to go

While we were young and supposed to be studying books

Me and my crew grew up and we were studying crooks

Their attitude, gratitude and them rugged ass looks

Money, power, respect - that was all that it took

We was raised in different families, but basically brothers

Pushing each other’s limits to get each other in trouble

Public schools rules so no religion in us

And ain’t no church in the wild so how could Jesus raise us

Patience was my virtue so I paid all my dues

While my crew cut class to sling drugs instead of school

And I knew I wanted to do them same things too

Attracted by them paper stacks and them brand new shoes

But I was broke as a teen, wearing the same pair of jeans

Couldn’t party like they did cause I never had the means

But my team stuck together like bricks in cement

I seen drugs, I seen fiends, I seen guns and I seen death

I’m feeling exposed, naked and all alone

So many think where I’ve been

Only a few know where I’m about to go

Now my only way out was through this pad and this pen

Writing about what was happening since i was just a kid

I got locked up for felonies

Pigs suspected I was selling trees

Sitting in the precinct for hours but never speak

Time and time again I stuck right by my friends

But when death struck us hard we was never the same again

D.J. we pray since you was taken away

That we will see your face again at the gates - save me a place!

So now some of us grew up and some grew down

Some stuck around, and others escaped from this town

One of my best friends, he became a drug kingpin

While the crew used them drugs to kill the pains we was in

Jealousy never struck me while my boys was living lovely

And I was working a nine to five making no money

Every weekend they was balling, buying tables at the club

Attracting all the gold diggers, trading money for some love

Them fake ass bitches with them silicon breasts

Suckering men with sex so they can pay off their debts

I said man made the money, money never makes a man

Fuck a Benz I got more pussy in my parent's mini van

Life is all about how you portray yourself

And this college degree most likely saved myself

But I ain’t gonna lie, sometimes i sit and wonder why

I didn’t die in my sleep when I overdosed those times.

I’m feeling exposed, naked and all alone

So many think where I’ve been

Only a few know where I’m about to go