Buddy (1998)

Yeah

Yeah

Yo, yo

What’s my purpose, know it’s deeper than the surface

Everything these people say is nothing, know that they fronting

'Cause I came up in a time rhyming specials on my mind

Just wanna be the illest and hope that the world gon' feel us

But fuck it, I’m on my own shit, that shit that make me feel good

Remind back when I had started just to feel good

Like we ain’t from the hood, but I seen it as my outlet

People sayin' I'd be nothing, now they never doubt 'em

Chip on my shoulder, my girl been pushing Corollas

I need a change here, man, I need to change fear

Out my muhfuckin' mind till I’m finally seeing clear

If you didn’t know my family always called me Buddy

Swear I used to fuckin' hate it, now I think back to the lovely times

Stress ain’t all up on my mind, just started to bust a rhyme

Swear I know what I been here to do

Can’t let fear control you, tryna see the real in you

Yeah

I feel a difference on these late nights I been happier

My energy enclosed for something great and I suppose

That my life is on a different path

Deeper than this rap

And I swear that I can help the people, stop 'em from just livin' evil

Buddy, Buddy, do you know how I been feelin' now

Pushin' thru this life and I been praying that you figure out

Take 'em back to when I used to say, "I’ll find a way"

Feels like a decade, and no there ain’t no time to waste

But do you really know the truth 'cause when I rhyme it through

Know these verses heaven sent for everything that I been through

Kyle, Seth, And Tyler done seen it, I’m talkin' dreamin'

Leaving anger in the past 'cause the pain it never last

Time to focus why I fell in love wit' rappin'

Here’s what happens when you put a boy wit nothin' inside of a booth come packin’

You lackin' to show ya roots

You lackin', just go and tell the truth

Can’t let fear control you, tryna see the real in you