Gotta keep it real i can't fake it
I'm tryna live my life they wanna take it
I be on my grind gotta chase it
I be having dreams that we gone make it

I don't wanna feel no pain
I'm just tryna live my life
I wish you could feel my pain
I be having dreamless nights

Love me for who i am not what you want me to be
I don't really give a damn if you want you can leave
Sayin that you down for me but it's no guarantee
I'm better off by my damn self apparently

I know my mama stressing hard it ain't doing no good
I know my father at his job tryna get out the hood
Only thing we know is hustle to get out the struggle
My Nigga on probation he tryna stay out of trouble

A few times i ain't eat because we ain't have no food
But still made ends meet gotta do what i do
Some niggas died up the street and it's all on the news
And every time that i smile sum fuck up my mood

Sometimes I'm scared to live sometimes I'm scared to die
All i ask for is the truth they still gone wanna lie
They killed lil bro i seen his mama cry
I just pray my mama don't shed no tears in her eyes

He got his chain on got his rang on
But fuck all that where your heart at
Is you real nigga would you fall back
When times get hard what you call that

Is you real my nigga
Is you still my nigga
Do you feel the pain that i feel my nigga
Is you real my nigga
Is you still my nigga
Damn why they had to go and kill my nigga

Gotta keep it real i can't fake it
I'm tryna live my life they wanna take it
I be on my grind gotta chase it
I be having dreams that we gone make it

I don't wanna feel no pain
I'm just tryna live my life
I wish you could feel my pain
I be having dreamless nights

It's like i be so lost and i don't know what to do
This real life they ain't teach me this shit up in school (not at all)
Natural born hustler gotta stay succa proof
Say they got love for you but they don't fwu

Now I'm locked in crack commandments i got ten
Ain't seen my uncle in a minute because he boxed in
Police still killing niggaz it ain't stopping
Grandma praying for me i know she watching

I'm from the hood but i ain't stuck in the trap
When you was born in the trenches gotta learn to adapt (prosper)
I gotta stay woke ain't got no time for no nap
Cuz when i sleep ion dream i ain't fw that (i promise)

When time gets hard that's when ya true color is show
Only the real survive and the fakes gotta go (true)
When it's niggas in yo hood that'll kill for no reason
I just wanna thank god that im still breathing

He got his chain on got his rang on
But fuck all that where yo heart at
Is you real nigga would you fall back
When times get hard what you call that

Is you real my nigga
Is you still my nigga
Do you feel the pain that i feel my nigga
Damn why they had to go and kill my nigga