The Realness

Lyrics for The Realness

Further ahead You know them ones I remember my man said don't waste time doing A crime if it's already been done, you know Don't waste time doing a crime if it's already been done Do you know how real that is? The feds know these things, you know You gotta be smarter than that That's why I'm here, you know Not just to play tunes like that But to show man certain things, innit You can rise up and be better like You can like, you know, like advance yourself, innit You ain't gotta be doing these like fuckery's, little tings, or what You can like move up and move onward You know them ones I'm chatting too much anyway, let me just play the fucking tune For me and many others on the street Friendship was based on who's there for you And that included having your boys back, no matter what I personally saw it as a way of showing love and keeping it real For most peeps on the street When someone had your back it created a silent special bond For some of us, that bond was like a life insurance policy And even though we became tight I still wasn't 100% certain that they had my back to the end There's too many fake ass Suge Knights out here nowadays I couldn't tell who was real and who wasn't When it came down to it I realised that the only person I could depend on 100% in beef, was me Trust is a luxury I can't afford Betrayal's something I can't ignore If I'm honest I didn't even know what the full Meaning of keeping it real was anymore I assumed it meant always backing the mandem's beef Never snitch, never touch a bredrin's wifey, and never snake man I couldn't understand why most of the mandem I parred with Found it so hard to maintain these simple guidelines We never had no oldest backings They all went when their flats got knocked down At this time, I found a lot of realness and comfort In listening to one NY rapper called Cormega His tunes had me in the zone Especially when I had a spliff to hand My favourite album at this time had to be 'Cormega - The Realness' I finished through that album from The first track, all the way through The interlude alone had me pulling up the track over and over Yo, when you deal with niggas, you know what I'm saying? You gotta know where they stand Cause everybody's your man when things are going right Uh, but what about when things are going wrong? Then the first verse, he killed it Ask yourself, am I your man? Would I die for you or by your hand? If I go broke, would you divide your gram? Put me in your plans? Hold me down with your heat if my shit jams? And then the chorus said it all If I died, would you cry? Nah, this type of tune here, you know when you wanna rise Up with like a fucking Marcus Garvey ting, or something You know them ones It's one of them type of tunes You know them ones