The Realness - Babyfather

You know them ones?

I know a grown man said:

Don’t waste time doing the crime if it’s already been done You know?

Don’t waste time doing the crime if it’s already been done

Do you know how real that is?

The feds know these things, you know

You got to be smarter than that

That’s why I’m here, you know?

Not just to play tunes

Like but to show man certain things init

You can rise up and be better like

You can like, you know, like advance yourself init

You ain’t gotta be doing these like fucked and these little things no more

Like you can move up and move onwards

You know them ones?

I’m chatting too much here

Let me just play that fucking tune

For me and many others on the streets:

Friendship was based on who’s there for you

And that includes having your boy’s 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 a hundred percent sure they had

my back til their end

There’s too many fake hard Suge Knights nowadays

I couldn’t tell who was real and who wasn’t

When it came down to it

I realized that the only person I could depend on one hundred percent and be

was me

Trust is a luxury I can’t afford

Betrayal is 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 a manor’s beef

Never snitch

Never touch a brother’s wifey

And never snake-knife

I couldn’t understand why most of the mans in my party found it so hard to

maintain these simple guidelines

We never had [?}​

At this time

I found a lot of realness had come from listening to one N.Y. rapper called

Cormega

His tunes had me in the zone

Especially when I had spliff to hand

My favourite album at this time had to be

Cormega: the realness

I could listen to that album from the first track all the way through

The interlude alone had me pulling out the track over and over

Yo, what you doing niggas?

You know what I’m saying?

You gotta know what to expect

Cause everybody’s your man when things is getting right

Uh, but what about when things are getting wrong?

Then, then in the first verse you 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 in the heat with my shit jams

And then the chorus says it all

If I died, would you cry?

Hey, nah

This type of tune here

You wanna rise up on the fucking Markus Garvey

You know them ones

It’s one of them type of tunes

You know them ones