Loyalty & trust: Page 2

Crooked cops pulled up, they offered him thirty pieces of silver

All he got to do is deliver the Savior

You mouth tellin me love, but I ain't feelin none

Some come around when they need some money

Others make us laugh like the Sunday funnies

I done seen people suffer, hate turned into love

Lost some people to get here

But they watchin' from up above

All my life I want money and power

Respect my mind or die from lead shower

It ain't no one to trust but me

And I got to make sure that I take care of my family

Wifey, in ya life see forever be us

Passenger side of a Bentley or the number 2 bus

If you tell me, I’ll give you 20 million to go stay somewhere you ain’t never stayed, I’d rather be broke. I’ll sit in jail to fight to live where I’ve been living my whole life.

They don't miss you 'till you gone with the wind

And they tired of dancin' like a Ying Yang Twin

You can't have the Yin without the Yang, my friend

Real niggas bring balance to the game I'm in (Yugh)

Back when I was nothing, you made a brother feel like he was something

All 'em wanna be the man, right hands wash the left hands

Loyalty's priority in this fam

I'ma make you a bowl of cereal with a teaspoon of bleach

Serve it to you like, "Here you go, nigga, bon appétit"

In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family

It wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity

There is no such thing as a fuckin friend

If loving me in public ain't safe

You can take my love and hide it

I used to know a bitch named Eric Wright

We used to roll around and fuck the hoes at night

Tighter than a motherfucker with the gangster beats

And we was ballin' on the motherfuckin' Compton streets, peep

I stay strapped like car seats

Been bangin' since my lil' nigga Rob got killed for his Barkleys

I believe in the team so much I got the logo printed on my chest

True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my vein

I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane

A special shout of peace goes out to all my pals, you see

And a middle finger goes for all you punk MC's

You need to check up on your strong friend

The one with strength that's never gon' end

They must forgot I'm the reason the whole hood ate

See you at the crossroads, crossroads, crossroads

So you won't be lonely

At the end of the day, all the niggas you was buying jewelry, all the niggas that was on the tour bus smacking asses with you, them niggas is not in that cell with you.

My only crime–was that I'm too damn kind

If it's ever me or her, then you won't have to choose, I'm gettin' gone (Ah)

It's still Eastside 'til I die

Shady Records was eighty seconds away from the towers

Some cowards fucked with the wrong building, they meant to hit ours

Held it down, I ain't lose it (Nah)

Think he told, but can't prove it (Think he told on me)

You hear sounds of the pot scrapin'

Me, I only hear music (Uh)

Word, fake people ain't worth a turd

They only want to be your friend because of what they overheard

And I wanna walk through the storm, and I could be the umbrella when the rain is pouring

Could have been left, but when it's mine, I never share

If them Heaven's gates closed

I'ma break all them hinges for my niggas

Niggas know how it feel when you missin' your nigga though

Can't think, so you roll up that indigo

Stressin' while drivin' down Figuero'

Blowin' kush clouds until his ghost is in my Ghost, damn

We are the present, the past and still the future. Bound by friendship, fueled and inspired by what's at stake.

Dre, I ain't mean to turn my back on you

But I'm a man, and sometimes a man do what he gotta do

Made a lot of cheese, people say I changed

But if you thinking this you never knew me from the gate mane

There's only one rule in the real world

And that's to take care of you, only you and yours

Now Ma$e be the man wanna see you doing good

I don't wanna get rich, leave you in the hood

Lost my dog to fentanyl

I go up and I cry for you

Love you so much, I'd die for you

I never exaggerated one line, one dime (dime)

Never lied to the people, not one time (never)

Best friends become strangers

That's how it is

I'm from the Compton slums, and that's how the West ride

I'm from the city where two of the best died

I have a lot of respect for female rappers. We are such a powerful minority.

It's hard to separate the fake, 'cause they chose us

Everybody showed up when we blowed up

Not greedy or livin' lavish yet, but you can bet

That when I do, nobody from my crew will I forget

Back in the days on the boulevard of Linden

We used to kick routines and the presence was fittin'

Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.

Niggas be weak, I'm concrete like Benjamin Grimm (Uh-huh)

It's a very thin line between a foe and a friend

Everybody wanna ride waves (Okay!)

And jump when the ship don't sail (Whoo!)

Fuck the money, never leave your people behind, yeah

It's never love, no matter what you try

Married to the game, but she broke her vows

That's why my bars are full of broken bottles

And my nightstands are full of open Bibles

Nothing lasts forever, but until they close the curtain

It's him and I – Aquemini

(Friends) is a term some people use loosely

I'm real choosy on what I choose to let crews see

I got too many dead homies, fuck a rap career

I'd give anything in the world to bring back my nigga Tear

Seem like we was just in Magic City yesterday

If I could bring back my homeboy Charles, he would say

Man, trust is somethin that I never had much faith in