and so it starts i wish you wouldn t have to see me like this down and out i m trynna get back on my feet before summer my goals is changing my memories of my loved ones is fading i m trynna stay in and out and really deal with the pressure how i m ignoring phone calls from my brother my present to pressing to help him deal with depression sometimes i forget em and that s crazy cause the nigga really the goat of this shit his cousin my brother too it s really family business i just need to vent i don t feel the need to fill you in tell me if i ever crossed the line you always do it and i tell you every time you phone me a couple times a day cause i tell you call me when i cross your mind wise up city saying rise up in my sleep i heard fuck niggas loud in the streets its vivid but i brush it off i look worried that ain t nothing dog this life with guns drugs money these young g s dying out here is ugly you ever seen a basquiat you ever seen a body drop you ever dream about the block these young boys wanna ball like the league center of the city trynna block their shot came from we all we got and we still all we got this is one of the reasons i get writer s block so it s bare emotions when i pen an open hold up wise up you know the world is changing wise up you know you not famous doing things you don t like saying things you don t mean to keep people you don t need wise up you know the world is changing  silk skin only thing calm my mind we hit the city fifth of henney in me and i come alive and i avoid the talk i m just trynna do me let me get into the music and keep conscious on my whereabouts it s not where you from it s where you at you ain t gotta be from chicago to lose someone you care about wise up young nigga too many smart niggas dying hanging round dumb niggas my city been hurting seeing legends leave early yea but we still here although they kill here hood on fire in the summer and winter i look to the skies for a better way to live lost one and we get it how we live and i m scared to put his name in my songs cause his gang probably feel they knew him better than i did am i a coward for that am i wrong to get inspired by that ain t it ill i can t say how i feel without the risk of getting shot at for that i mean fuck y all niggas gunshot i might have crossed the line i might have crossed the line i pray for you you don t have to pray for me i hope you ever will just wait and see i really hope you will i really hope you will i pray for you you don t have to pray for me we drinked and smoked to find a way to sleep i can t believe we still do it we still do wise up you know the world is changing wise up you know you not thinking doing things you don t like saying things you don t mean to keep people you don t need wise up you know the world is changing free noah carter i been out of jail for a couple is you stupid what you talkin bout my mama right next to me i appreciate the love but does it look like i m trying to take a picture now i went in prison found religion oh you muslim now don t send me pictures of them titties that s haram oh i m bugging out too pure for dirty money i ain t hustling fuck a hundred thou i told my mother i wanted to be like my father but he left her with me and i ain t trying to do that to alba i lost her more than once wrote do you and got her back before she heard it always knew she was a real one i just had to word it i kept my eyes on you not thinking to blink i noticed something was wrong before i finished my drink what if i left you tomorrow what would the internet think my mind has been somewhere else even the days that we link i write for the future just in case we ain t living in sync you used to say i got a way with words all my actions is what made it worse but i still got away with words them long nights conflict with them good days and the drug life complicates the love life thug life have me living life fuck life i m just trynna be the best i can be for the people that i love for the city and me for this world of a god b o c forever and that s word to the squad so go and tell your best friends i m the one and if you ever meet my father tell him what i ve become i got up off the couch and started holding my weight still leave it to the law to determine my faith i really put my heart in this so please no wack reviews on the tape yea dunno got no time to loverys and i swear i will die for lots of reasons and i swear only time for memories and i i i i swear i swe e e ar so stop waiting with our so o oul too la a ate2