[Chorus 2x]
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
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus 2x]
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
[Verse 2]
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.
[Chorus 2x]
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