Never Lettin Go - Bonus Track

1995, I saw my first friend get buried in the ground

We was traumatized. We just smokein' out of Patina's crib

Now we got a Funeral and his momma cry my guy got

2 years and Charles died both of em gone from a homicide

All of sudden murder wasn't so uncommon the innocence that we had

Was gone inside so we quit high school and selling drugs was cool

Now all of a sudden hittin' licks for the drugs was in

My close homeboys from the rida crew put me in the middle

Stickin' up my friends. No wonder why nobody didn't trust me when

They busted in and tied up and gagged and a guy with a gun thats

Behind a mask was some dude you used to sit behind in class

I asked hoodie guy how much time he had sat down he was

Found guilty and his youth was stripped he called me collect

And we used to spit a bunch of dope ass rap cus this music

Shit was the only future that boosted a optimism but the time

Was ticking as we lose the crib years of boozin' and usin'

And abusin' drugs [?

Livin' this street life

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The street life, the street lights don't seem bright

No more. The Devil's got a hold of ya soul and he's

Pulling you below. (*Humming)

Caught up in the street life, the street lights

Don't seem bright no more. The Devil's got a hold

Of ya soul and he's never lettin' go (*Humming)

(2)

Back in the day she was kinda fine, but drugs

Took a tole on her pretty face. That along with

Hard times combined. These days you find a website

Online she quit stripping now she gettin' paid to escort

It's fucked cus she was the girl from next door

Now you can see her ad next to sex toys and

All you got to do is hit the local sex store

It made a lot of people lose respect for her

But check yourself cus only God can judge her

She blamed her family her step-father touched her

She tried to tell her mom but her mom was to

Drunk ta' really give a fuck and all disgust her

She sat back and watched her daughter suffer so

Her trust in love and life's lost it's luster anyway I hope you rocked

Her up if you fucked her though cus shit gets thick like

The fur in the neck of a buffalo when your pissin' an

Your dickhead hurts but you gotta let it burn like an

Usher song and try to play it off like nothings wrong

But I know it won't be long I see my homie at school and

He said "what ya know?" he said you gotta reap what

You sow so many people try to swim against an undertone

In This street life yeah!

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(3)

We was young and dumb full of bad ideas(Bad ideas)

So the past five years(past five years) I be

Looking back like shit! how the fuck did I make it

I'm just glad I did(Glad I did) Slick called me up

And told me Black got killed I was like for real dawg?

In disbelief somebody shot em up a couple years back

He lived now he's gone for good and I pray he rest in peace

It's terrible knowin' you'll never to see your friends

Face again I guess thats why protection is a necessity

You can expect to see your life expectancy not be

That long when you let the streets become your 2nd home they

Didn't have a choice accept your roll hoping they can see the

Next episode someone will shoot you in the head with the wrong

Sweater they cold-blooded and never lose a wink of sleep

And the cops don't care neither it's squat to them your dead body

Is just another crime scene to sweep and I ain't never been

A gangsta but thanks to Gwinnett growing up I did seen some

Things I just hope the friends that I named in this song

Are watching over with the Angel wings when we livin' this

Street life!

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