You have to learn the hard way
Nobody gonna help you make it
Everybody ain't for you
They be love and be faking
Writing all you downfalls
So they can find a way to take it
I promise nobody knows
Sometimes you have to face it
You have to learn the hard way
Nobody gonna help you make it
Everybody ain't for you
They be love and be faking
Writing all you downfalls
So they can find a way to take it
I promise nobody knows
Sometimes you got to face it
Have to separate the real from the fake
Try to keep my grass cut I couldn't see your mistakes
You've ever tried to feed a nigga try to eat your whole plate
Same persone showing love to lie to your face
Then that's real
Gotta keep your mouth closed your eyes on the street
Still hope cuz we using black lies to police
And I know no more hand outs your playing for peace
And I'm stay the same so why would you say about me
I had to learn the hard way
Nobody gonna help you make it
Everybody ain't for you
They be love and be faking
Writing all you downfalls
So they can find a way to take it
I promise nobody knows
Sometimes you got to face it
You have to learn the hard way
Nobody gonna help you make it
Everybody ain't for you
They be love and be faking
Writing all your downfalls
So they can find a way to take it
I promise nobody knows
Sometimes you got to face it
I'm a young black man in America
They force me to be here but they still try to set me up
Take these chains off me please God let me out
My people need to change I swear we didn't I had enough
Gotta keep your mouth closed your eyes on the street
Still hope cuz we using black lies to police
And I know no more hand outs your playing for peace
And I'm stay the same so why would you say about me
I had to learn the hard way
Nobody gonna help you make it
Everybody ain't for you
They be love and be faking
Writing all you downfalls
So they can find a way to take it
I promise nobody knows
Sometimes you got to face it
I had to learn the hard way
Nobody gonna help you make it
Everybody ain't for you
They be love and be faking
Writing all your downfalls
So they can find a way to take it
I promise nobody knows
Sometimes you got to face it
I said to my son I had to learn the hard way
Sat behind bars and took laws to realize
That anybody wasn't for me
I went against the R's watch the fraud switching on me
But the devil wasn't stronger than God's grip on me
Some hard shit homie but yeah you gets lonely
But its better than the thugs and they love when its phony
Life had to show me I learn from mistakes
I took knifes in my back I got bit by the snakes
Now we divided as a race and get shot by the cops
We getting slaughtered cuz they
Taught us that are brothers was our ops
And our mamas and our paps they didn't know no better
Instead of investing in 'em stocks they bought us polo sweaters
Yeah I know they ain't gonna let us when have us fighting
They keeping us divided cuz they're scared of us united
We say we want equality but the chance is narrow
If we keep being crabs in the barrow
I had to learn the hard way
Nobody gonna help you make it
Everybody ain't for you
They be love and be faking
Writing all you downfalls
So they can find a way to take it
I promise nobody knows
Sometimes you got to face it
I had to learn the hard way
Nobody gonna help you make it
Everybody ain't for you
They be love and be faking
Writing all your downfalls
So they can find a way to take it
I promise nobody knows
Sometimes you got to face it