Why I am, Who I am Lyrics

This is my life

This is who I am, for real

Everything I've been through

Everybody who helped me

Everything I overcame

I was blind to the hate

I slept on the mattress it felt like the floor

Me and my brother we sharing our clothes

Next door neighbor was selling that dope

No one to talk to, I felt all alone

Could you survive when your heart gone cold

Roaches around in the crib

When I was younger we were grandma's kids

How shit changed when we got so big

Tell my grandma I miss her

Friends and blood who ain't even here

Pat on the back for the things that I did

We got kicked out when the money stopped flowing

We lived in apartments, I stole from the kids

I wasn't talking but the pain surely did

It was hard sometimes to look in the mirror

But I felt like that made it my year

They told me when I was little

A don't look back you're winning

You give a helping hand they'll pull you back in it

Smart nigga keep your distance

Show a nigga love, he won't settle for pennies

Snaking niggas out I promise ain't in me

Ain't claiming I'm perfect

Wiping tears I ain't seen too many

I get that feeling in my chest when I do for the people I love

Some niggas take it and won't never check up

I ain't get no loyalty

Shit hurt deep when you're reaching

Shit hurt deep when you mean it

I walk in the summer time with my hood on just to cover my demons

I remember the day I was caught

Momma distraught

Looking at me like I'm the one that she failed

I fell a thousand times but I picked myself back up

Claiming the shit that is real

Fuck all the phony that come with the deals

You by yourself man, nobody cares

Man live to fullest, don't live in no fear

Do you hate me for achieving my goals

Or you hate me for not dragging you along