[00:02.62]Keep your circle tight
[00:04.11]
[00:06.60]Trust no one  nobody
[00:10.28]
[00:13.89]Gotta be careful who you trusting
[00:15.77]
[00:16.65]Be aware of your surrounding
[00:17.83]When you hustling
[00:18.85]
[00:19.69]Them niggas smiling at you ain't your friends  dawg
[00:22.21]
[00:22.72]All the real ones are dead or in the pen y'all
[00:25.38]
[00:26.29]You f**k with dude  he your day one
[00:28.40]
[00:29.31]Almost had it all then the day comes
[00:31.61]
[00:32.13]When they walking through your house with the strap out
[00:34.82]Pointing at your head
[00:35.74]Got the bread then you black out
[00:37.65]
[00:39.09]Bright lights down the hallways
[00:41.42]Left his best friend for dead for the small wage
[00:44.14]
[00:44.72]They say that every dogs got a day coming
[00:47.11]
[00:47.68]It's like he seen a ghost
[00:48.84]But he ain't saying nothing
[00:50.21]
[00:51.10]Eyes wide shut like you looking at me
[00:53.80]Window pain to the soul say nigga's happy
[00:56.84]But the pictures ain't say them words
[00:58.63]And we dry stomach
[01:00.31]The homie didn't keep it one hundred
[01:02.78]The cops doing roundups
[01:04.10]Say they got a suspect
[01:05.92]Finally got a name now
[01:07.33]I'm still thinkin f**k that
[01:08.80]
[01:09.54]For money  niggas murder
[01:10.67]What they close to
[01:12.21]Entire families
[01:12.95]These mother f**ker's ghost you
[01:14.92]Smoke you  was it worth what the life was
[01:18.66]Just prepared for the payback
[01:20.33]Because it strikes cuz
[01:21.50]
[01:22.81]Was it worth what that life was
[01:24.16]Prepare for the payback when it strikes cuz
[01:27.26]When you need it the most ain't no one ever around
[01:31.05]
[01:32.96]Cold world  cold world
[01:38.26]
[01:39.75]The pain's unbearable  remains unwearable
[01:43.07]He f**k around jump of a building if you dare him to
[01:46.33]The greats they done already killed him
[01:47.62]Who you compare him to
[01:49.40]Figure out what he said will take a year or two
[01:52.08]Family over everything
[01:54.15]Skills over politics
[01:55.69]He don't need the accolades
[01:57.12]As long as you acknowledge it
[01:58.87]Just playing the hand you was dealt  no aces
[02:01.65]Betrayal is worse than death in most cases
[02:04.93]The world is filled with hypocrites
[02:07.15]This so racist
[02:08.19]Multiple shots to the face  No chasers
[02:10.88]Mad cause you blew up quick and you excited
[02:13.81]Your man that you grew up with get you indicted
[02:17.12]
[02:17.74]This was your nigga  yo
[02:19.05]For him you let the trigger go
[02:20.39]Found out at the trial they got audio and video
[02:23.81]Shit don't always happen how you plan it
[02:26.74]Get jammed up and really find out who your fam is
[02:30.11]You could feel the picture
[02:31.40]You don't need to see the canvas
[02:32.75]That nigga Jay'll a Hawk you
[02:34.50]He don't even play for Kansas
[02:36.13]You know when it's someone
[02:37.34]You love the hurt's pure
[02:39.07]You front tryna hold it in
[02:41.10]It hurts more
[02:41.96]He was right there back-to-back with me
[02:44.27]My first war
[02:45.22]Even had a crack spot together
[02:47.38]The first floor
[02:48.34]Used to buzz him in then meet him
[02:50.23]Right by the first door
[02:51.51]That was 'prolly a year
[02:52.65]Before I went on my first tour
[02:54.39]
[02:54.95]Friendship was worth
[02:56.26]More than a couple of ounces
[02:57.63]He was 'sposed to be with me
[02:59.43]Arguing with the bouncers
[03:00.99]Instead you ended up somewhere far
[03:02.85]In the mountains
[03:04.17]Talking 'about what we was doing
[03:05.98]What we was counting
[03:07.47]None but old pictures of old sixes
[03:10.43]Old BM's with the kids  old snitches
[03:13.43]
[03:14.63]Two sides  both wishes
[03:16.62]Karma is the sister of life
[03:18.54]They both bitches
[03:19.02]See there's a story in my life
[03:20.63]
[03:21.61]There's a story in my pain
[03:23.69]
[03:24.77]There's a story in my tears
[03:27.38]
[03:28.25]Yeah  for life
[03:30.81]
[03:31.95]Lord forgive me for my sins
[03:33.74]I was chasin' ends
[03:35.32]And I'm into makin' money
[03:36.71]I ain't in to making friends
[03:38.27]Cause these niggas rattin'
[03:39.92]I ain't finna take a chance
[03:41.45]Homie said he 'bout
[03:42.36]That action they grabbin' me take the stand
[03:44.68]
[03:46.10]Say loyalty make a man
[03:47.68]Got a homie and he told
[03:49.31]I don't even shake his hand
[03:50.78]I don't even crack a smile
[03:52.59]Knew him since a child  man this game so foul
[03:55.40]But niggas made vows to a code I never break
[03:58.89]Ridin' in the heavy weight
[04:00.51]Thirty-six O's in the bird
[04:02.47]Call it feather weight
[04:03.58]Never on time
[04:04.84]When I show up I be ready late
[04:06.73]Niggas got fat while we starved they already ate
[04:09.85]And I'm trying to get full
[04:11.36]Masks on clips full
[04:12.86]If he got the money we attack him like a pitbull
[04:16.01]We sellin' soft  we sellin' hard
[04:18.08]Like it's a brick store
[04:19.32]On my dick  nigga  thought
[04:21.09]That's what your bitch for
[04:22.29]
[04:22.95]My pain ain't never been told
[04:25.70]
[04:27.65]All the success that I'm suffering from
[04:30.26]Came from this knowledge I sold
[04:31.99]
[04:33.08]My family f**ks with me
[04:35.66]And fought the enemy that stood in my way
[04:38.63]
[04:39.56]That's why I don't trust nobody
[04:41.76]And I doubt you'll ever see that day
[04:44.36]
[04:44.99]'Fore I surrender to you  surrender to you
[04:51.06]
[04:51.80]Surrender to you  surrender to you
[04:56.91]
[04:57.56]Which I will never do
[04:59.02]Cause when you need it the most ain't
[05:00.89]No one ever around (nobody's around)
[05:04.96]Cold world  cold world (yes it is)
[05:12.31]
[05:13.24]And the ones that you keep close
[05:16.39]Will take you down
[05:17.59]
[05:18.89]Cold world  a cold cold world
[05:22.83]Fore I surrender to you  surrender to you
[05:28.39]
[05:29.11]Surrender to you  surrender to you
[05:34.09]
[05:34.76]Fore I surrender to you  surrender to you
[05:40.72]
[05:41.22]Surrender to you
[05:43.95]
[05:47.51]Which I will never do
[05:49.10]
[06:00.62]See there's a story in my life (Surrender)
[06:03.18]
[06:03.87]There's a story in my pain (Surrender)
[06:07.11]There's a story in my tears (Surrender)
[06:10.81]
[06:13.36]There's a story in me (I won't Surrender)
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[06:18.43](I won't Surrender)