Truth Be Told (Explicit) - Apollo Brown/Guilty Simpson
Oh baby it's been so
Yeah
Long
True
A lotta rappers be lyin' man
Scared to face the reality of truth
Yeah it's true
Check me check me yo
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 w**d
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 mothaf**kas 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 d**e
We had to smoke
Sayin' what I wrote with hope
I told myself you want change that's cool
Remember change starts with you
It's true
It's true
It's true true true
It's true true
True
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 sh*t
Yeah we was ghostin'
Visitin' chicks skippin' school
At the time I thought it was cool
Sh*t I had an older woman didn't know nothin'
She had another man I was just a fool f**k 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 f**k about
What they did so we bumped it out
Too much pride
To let somebody's b******t ride
So I happily was
Yeah I needed change but I had to tell myself
You want change you start with you
It's true
Yeah true
It's true true true
It's true true
True
That's that realness
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