[Intro]

What I want people to know is that, don't

Don't support the phonies but support the real

You know what I mean? How can these people be talking

About how they so real that they don't care about our communities

How can they be talking about what they all this the hood, blah-blah...

They don't care about our communities, you know what I mean?

Listen to the words people say in their lyrics

And tell me if that's some real s***

If that's real to you, you know what I mean?

Listen to what they're saying

Don't just bob your head to the beat, peep the game

And listen to what I'm saying and hold us accountable for it

[Verse 1]

Thought to be a rotten egg hatched from a bad block

I found God and came back for the have not's

I can't necessarily brag like I'm that guy

But I refuse to be another one of rap's mascots

They rap 'bout the trap like it ain't a bad spot

But ask when the last time they hand touched a crack pot

It's either a long time ago or never

But if the money right, I'ma rhyme about whatever

They rap about Glocks from a house on the hill

So they never hear the shots at night

You see the loud cries from a mother with a child in the gutter

Apparently doesn't travel that high

I almost wanna cry but you would prolly wonder if I'm acting

'Cause you are so used to rappers that lack passion

Your minds been trained to reject what I'm givin' you

The Truth, and it's nothing new, it just ain't familiar

[Hook]

The world so cold but, for God, I'm on fire

So I'ma tell the truth

Even if it make you look like a liar (A liar)

Even if it make you look like a liar (A liar), you a liar

The world so cold but, for God, I'm on fire

So I'ma tell the truth

Even if it make you look like a liar (A liar)

You just mad it make you look like a liar (A liar), you a liar

But they gon' hear the truth from me

[Verse 2]

See I coulda sat back and let Jay be a liar

And say he diss religion 'cause he feel that it divide us

And you can sit back and be like "It makes sense"

But it doesn't in a court where my Father is your honor

Now is it really 'cause you hate the separation

Enough that you could attack Jesus and make it blatant

But go through your career sayin' nathing 'bout the banging?

You say it to the church but won't say it to the gangsters?

Jesus said "Love your brother", banging says slay 'em

Wit' a case, so hatred for separation ain't what we facing

So if he wasn't, which he is, a mason down with Satan

You can break his statement down and see he ain't what he portrayin'

His verse wasn't even 'posed to go that route

But when the truth on the inside, it flow right out

You gotta listen deeper, you gotta be a thinker

And not be ready to eat anything rap feeds you

[Hook]

The world so cold but, for God, I'm on fire

So I'ma tell the truth

Even if it make you look like a liar (A liar)

Even if it make you look like a liar (A liar), you a liar

The world so cold but, for God, I'm on fire

So I'ma tell the truth

Even if it make you look like a liar (A liar)

You just mad it make you look like a liar (A liar), you a liar

But they gon' hear the truth from me

[Verse 3]

How's this for the truth? I lived in the booth

Since eight, with big dreams of gettin' to the loot

And I figured all these rap spitters were the truth

Lookin' up to what really was a midget on a roof

They write down BS and give it to the youth

Watching kids go to prison while they sittin' in they coupes

Tell 'em you the boss and how you're rich off cocaine

Used to be the law and plead the fifth like bro man

We more ashamed of bein' cops than drug dealers

We holla thug and try to hide the love in us

But I done had conversations with the hardest

Some of 'em heart big, they just tryin' hard to guard it

And I kinda feel that, but I'm tryna kill that

Hide the thug, show the love, why would you conceal that?

Even if it is real, you are too grown

To not know that you wrong, it is what it is, homie

[Hook]

The world so cold but, for God, I'm on fire

So I'ma tell the truth

Even if it make you look like a liar (A liar)

Even if it make you look like a liar (A liar), you a liar

The world so cold but, for God, I'm on fire

So I'ma tell the truth

Even if it make you look like a liar (A liar)

You just mad it make you look like a liar (A liar), you a liar

But they gon' hear the truth from me

[Outro]

Even though I was survivin' in the thug life

Everybody that was tryin' to be like me was goin' to jail

And then finally I went to jail

Even though I wasn't gettin' shot up, they was all gettin' shot up

Then I got shot up

And I started sayin' "Damn, you know, it is my fault"

It is... it's not my fault where I made it happen

But it's my fault because I'm smarter than that