[Intro: Guilty Simpson & Sample]

[Sample]

Oh baby it's been so...

[Guilty Simpson]

Yeah

[Sample]

Long...

[Guilty Simpson]

True

A lotta rappers be lyin', man

Scared to face the reality of truth

Yeah, it's true

Check me, check me, yo

[Verse 1: Guilty Simpson]

I didn't have the drive

To put in time

To keep hoop dreams alive

I was busy with the women

Thinkin' I was livin'

All the while slippin'

Losin' stride, uh

I used to hustle, baggin' up weed

But wasn't smart enough to separate my wants from needs

I was smokin' with the crew for fun

All the while losin' funds

Burnin' all my tree

I tried to be a thug

Fightin' with mothafuckas and tearin' up the club

I don't know what it was

I needed that direction

To deal with my aggression

Instead of pullin' weapons

Squeezin' slugs

Yeah I was broke

Rarely had dope

We had to ante up smoke

Sayin' what I wrote with hope

I told myself, "You want change, that's cool

Remember change starts with you"

[Hook: Guilty Simpson & Sample] x2

It's true...

It's true

Yeah, it's true

It's true

[Verse 2: Guilty Simpson]

I didn't have the discipline to stick with it

To be a football star, experimentin' with the bottle

Ignorin' positive role models

Plus my homeboy had a car, shit

Yeah we was ghostin'

Visitin' chicks, skippin' school

At the time, I thought it was cool

Shit, I had an older woman, but didn't know nothin'

She had another man, I was just a fool, fuck it

I tried college

Mama said "Son, you gotta do better"

Kicked out first semester

Beefin' with the locals over stuff

That I didn't give a fuck about

What they did, so we bucked it out

Too much pride

To let somebody's bullshit ride

So I would happily shoot the five

Yeah, I needed change but I had to tell myself

"You want change, you start with you"

[Hook] x2

[Outro: Guilty Simpson]

It's true

That's that realness

Dice Game

It's true