[00:00.00]letter to my brudda (Explicit) – 21 Savage
[00:01.56]Lyrics by：Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph/Paola Barba/Tyrese McGriff/Kavi Lybarger/Park Min Geon
[00:04.90]Composed by：Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph/Paola Barba/Tyrese McGriff/Kavi Lybarger/Park Min Geon
[00:08.24]Produced by：Lil Tyh/KXVI/g06beatz
[00:10.03]Woah woah woah
[00:12.46]Once you cross that line it ain’t no tryin’ to fix it
[00:15.36]You want me to forgive you let’s be realistic
[00:18.00]I can’t kick it with your kind like I tore my meniscus
[00:21.14]How you go from co-defendant to a ******* witness
[00:24.12]They’ll stand on couches with you but won’t stand on business
[00:28.77]Woah
[00:29.73]I watched everybody turn on my brother
[00:31.78]Like he ain’t have ’em out here flyin’ jets and ******* *******
[00:35.49]This **** ridiculous
[00:37.73]I feel your pain my brother
[00:39.95]I know you from the struggle
[00:41.35]I know how hard you hustled just to take care of your mother
[00:44.29]I know you took clothes off your back for niggas you call brother
[00:47.33]I know how hard it get in this jungle
[00:49.11]Tryna prevail without bein’ tried like you no sucker
[00:52.38]Huh life’s a ************ yeah
[00:56.58]I know ain’t nobody perfect
[00:58.01]But what’s the point in makin’ it out if all they do is cuff ya
[01:02.07]You know we be comin’ from like
[01:03.31]The worst conditions the worst circumstances
[01:06.32]The trenches the gutter
[01:08.95]And sometimes we be forced to make decisions
[01:10.77]That we don’t even wanna make
[01:12.81]It be about survival
[01:15.55]At the end of the day we be havin’ good hearts
[01:18.43]They just be in bad places
[01:22.04]I guess that’s life though
[01:25.93]Father God forgive me for my sins
[01:28.06]Take the mask off all my enemies that’s out here actin’ like my friends
[01:31.86]Did some **** I’m prayin’ I never gotta do again
[01:34.55]I put blood sweat and tears inside this win
[01:37.60]If I take care of my hood the prosecutor call me Gotti
[01:40.70]Turn my back on the hood they probably kill me probably rob me
[01:43.80]It’s a Catch-22 I’m bein’ honest
[01:46.74]Hard work tryna keep the past behind me
[01:50.04]I still be havin’ flashbacks ’bout Johnny
[01:52.80]Fast forward and the major label signed me
[01:56.28]Had to hustle had to focus perseverance
[01:59.44]Mama used to go to TJ Maxx and shop on clearance
[02:02.42]Tayman and CJ I can still feel they spirits
[02:05.44]Skinny and Wanwan used to rap I know they hear it
[02:08.47]It ain’t that easy puttin’ pain inside of lyrics
[02:11.60]Send this up to Heaven so they can clear it
[02:15.83]Y’all know like real street niggas gon’ feel this ****
[02:19.63]And I don’t want niggas to get misunderstood
[02:22.28]’Cause the rules we live by don’t even matter no more
[02:27.12]Just a just a setback for you to come back
[02:30.76]Can’t hold a nigga down forever
[02:32.62]Know what I’m sayin’
[02:34.86]’Til then we gon’ hold this **** down straight up