Real Shxt

Yeah
Gon' let this one ride out a little bit, ya know
I think they call this one like
Hood poetry or something
This just life in the bricks, yeah
Youngin is

Life's a bitch and then you die that's what Nas and AZ taught me
If you ever had to struggle you know these stories
Project nights, sirens and lights
Every day is a struggle to get it right, real shit
Mothers giving their kids notes to take to neighbors
To borrow money or food and pay them back later
Brother risking time every drug sell he went through
Either it's led from a gun or lead from a pencil
Tough love for the man who could've been a thug
Like some of the homies was loading up slugs
To go pay the op a visit or to bust a jug
Screaming blood or cuz and puffing up drugs
But I stayed strong and didn't fall into the life
Make it a little easy for ma to sleep at night
Just a king trying to follow his own path
And make it to the top before I pass, real shit

This is how I feel, you can put in quotes
As I write in my notes, I hope your listening close
To the realest shit I ever wrote
Some of the realest shit I ever spoke
These feelings are real, ain't nothing but truth
As I rap in the booth I hope you're listening to
Some of the realest shit I ever wrote
Some realest shit I ever spoke

I lost my sis around the time that quarantine started
I found her body at peace, no more hurt in her body
Fuck breast cancer they said she beat the shit
But having it brought along some other weaknesses
She died a couple hours before one of her treatments
Nobody in the world could've foreseen this
The first raps I spit, was hers remixed
Who would've thought that it would grow into this
Now I'm going thru just
Watching my mother feel sick cause she misses, her first born
Now her heart is just torn
And my niece, please stay around we need you
You gotta make her proud when she looks down and sees you
Prosper, you gotta be strong believe me
I know it ain't easy
You know that I'ma always be here when you need me
Keep your chin up
We slip, and even fail, but we known to get up, right?

This is how I feel, you can put in quotes
As I write in my notes, I hope your listening close
To the realest shit I ever wrote
Some of the realest shit I ever spoke
These feelings are real, ain't nothing but truth
As I rap in the booth I hope you're listening to
Some of the realest shit I ever wrote
Some realest shit I ever spoke

Verse 3, last but not least, Beautiful
Always love your mother and forgive the things she do to you
Yeah she keeps us separated, yeah that's mean
Especially since you just hit your sweet sixteen
But we're still alive and got nothing but time
Better believe every day you be on my mind
That's why I make a song about you, almost every album
I put it in the universe awaiting the outcome
Which I know is gonna be positive
Hopefully I'm on my own and can show you how I live
Just know that your father is, keeping a cool head
Trying to stay out of jail and not end up dead
Because I'm anticipating the future moments we gonna have
That we were deprived of
I'm sending my love like Zhané, please walk a positive path
For your mom and your dad yup just like that

This is how I feel, you can put in quotes
As I write in my notes, I hope your listening close
To the realest shit I ever wrote
Some of the realest shit I ever spoke
These feelings are real, ain't nothing but truth
As I rap in the booth I hope you're listening to
Some of the realest shit I ever wrote
Some realest shit I ever spoke