Intro:

This some bullsh*t mane I swear, I don't know what dese n***as be one mane I swear

Hook:
If I had a dollar every time I kept it realer. (Yeah.)
If I had a dollar every time I kept it real... (I can’t believe this sh*t.).
I could never understand what I wasn’t built to understand.
Are you really down or you just tryna get the upper hand.
If I had a dollar every time I kept it realer than you n***as.
(I’d be a wealthy man already. It’s all good tho’)

Verse1:

I kept it real with too many, just to be real with myself.
Told the man in the mirror this sh*t aint good for your health.
Think he agree cause we both see that these n***as aint gone keep it G with me the way with them I be.
I kept it triller to the T. Now say I didn’t?
Ask me how I feel to know my partner tryna kill me.
Mane this sh*t’s systematic. I can’t show too many feelings.
Now I question everybody’s moves and motives.
I don’t think they really love me they just wanna keep me closer, that’s my notion.
Slow the motion (slow the motion)
Sh*t’s like boxing fix your posture, can’t be open.
The line between friend and foe is (as) thin as the line between love and hate.
Somehow in your mind you done blurred the line between real and fake. But if I had a dollar (for) every time I kept it realer.

Hook:

If I had a dollar every time I kept it realer. (You hear me?! Really doe).
If I had a dollar every time I kept it real... (I don’t think I can trust nobody.)
I could never understand what I wasn’t built to understand.
Are you really down or you just tryna get the upper hand.
If I had a dollar every time I kept it realer than you n***as. (straight up!)

Verse 2:

Look! Do me a favor mane don’t do me no favors.
I’d rather earn my pay, and pay my way than hear bout sh*t later.
Them IOUs’ll cost too much. Too many strings’ll cross you up.
Pinocchio in Charlotte’s clutch, left for dead, string you up to and starve and such (wooh)!
Before you bungee don’t say I aint give you facts.
Some of you n***as mistake my jewels and maps as simply raps.
So when I tell you ""watch yo’ back. Don’t let ’em front you for your cash”. They still catch you from the side cause you aint catch one line of that. Damn! I tried! I ain’t gone lie I’m surprised…
All this time (I) thought you was real… I guess the real in you died.
I ain’t gone judge cause I got flaws.
Not like yall’s; you tore your draws.
So when I don’t return your calls you know the cause.
But if I had a…..

Hook:

If I had a dollar every time I kept it realer. (You hear me?! Really doe).
If I had a dollar every time I kept it real... (I don’t think I can trust nobody.)
I could never understand what I wasn’t built to understand.
Are you really down or you just tryna get the upper hand.
If I had a dollar every time I kept it realer than you n***as. (straight up!)

Prayer:

Father forgive them for they know not what they do. And in the same breath father forgive me for holding grudges. Amen