i need you

i need you, not me, it's not me, it's who got me, to hold me, to scold me, 'cause when i'm, you ready, growin' up with an older mental, your destiny really depends on what you been through, wordplay, breath control, controllin' the tempo, in the hood it's like respect is your only credentials, weed, liquor, and a gun are the only essentials, 'til you do somethin' dumb 'cause your homie convinced you, put two behind the walls, they waitin' to you, plus you all washed up, they just waitin' to wrench you, tryna stand up straight but the hatin' will bend you, in a different tax bracket, how can they offend you?, if everything they drop is ratchet, how can they continue?, master of the ceremony, i'm ownin' the venue, the sword is might but i know you know what the pen do, kinda hard to figure out but you know that it's simple, catch a bullet in the head, that's a hole in the temple, this a fucked up game but it's so influential, come across the same sample, its coincidental, i pay a flight, room and board with no incidentals, tryna get it all right 'fore i leave you, this rap shit is my life and i need you, if i did it out of spite, i ain't need to, words of advice, the team heeds you, tryna get it all right 'fore i leave you, this rap shit is my life and i need you, i could feel it in the air when i breeze through, i don't really care what it leads to, tryna get it all right 'fore i leave you, this rap shit is my life and i need you, never bite that hand that'll feed you, go livin' off the land if i need to, tryna get it all right 'fore i leave you, this rap shit is my life and i need you, uh, growin' up with a older mental, so official that i'mma pull in a roll of tissue, mo' money, mo' problems, little niggas know the issues, the same happen to me, then the homies know to get you, so much sun, i'mma make it and you gon' watch me do it, it's just all about focus and you can't stop us doin' it, you can't stop, just like the cops can't stop the shootin', comin' at me is a no-no and i'm not refusin', been up and coming for a minute and i'm still leadin', y'all know i'm in and out the trap, i heard they still fiendin', you was never ballin' with us, you was chair leadin', niggas think the trap is dead that shit is still breathin', they say, "nino man, you act like you don't know nobody", i said, "nah, i just act like i don't own nobody", they see the different color belts like i know karate, didn't greet me when i was broke, now they know somebody, they know before i ran the block, i controlled the lobby, and i already know what's up, don't gotta know to find me, tryna be here for a while, not breeze through, this rap shit is my life and i need you, if i did it out of spite, i ain't need to, words of advice, the team heeds you, tryna get it all right 'fore i leave you, this rap shit is my life and i need you, i could feel it in the air when i breeze through, i don't really care what it leads to, tryna get it all right 'fore i leave you, this rap shit is my life and i need you, never bite that hand that'll feed you, go livin' off the land if i need to, tryna get it all right 'fore i leave you, this rap shit is my life and i need you, what?, what?