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Yeah

I'ma tell you like this

You don't know until you know

You never know

And that's real shit, uh

Know

I'm from where tragedies made us strengthen and casualties don't make a difference

The people who ain't from here can't imagine this way of living

Can't imagine this shit

But she a diamond in the rough, who? Jasmine K Dickens

She's got a bachelor's then a job at a maximum state prison

But she ain't the same C.O. that's workin' at Chow

Her pops did ten joints in the jail, she workin' in now

Real OG

She work in Prince dorm, he flirt with her now, and then, she like 'em

Now, ****

But she stand firm, she never break a smirk or a smile

Can't break it

But he a rich ****, he know how to play, got five left

He got her address and sent her a bracelet and lingerie

Prince playin' chess, he thinkin' of fuckin' her smart though

He hit her once, now he got that bitch smugglin' smartphones

It went from that, now she bringin' it in, dope

That work

Prince got her locked down, he feelin' like a kingpin again

He runnin' shit right, he feedin' his men

Feedin' his boys

He sent that money home, so he meet up with Jasmine to re-up again

Let's go again

But nah, shit way too lit, she tryna quit

But he wasn't havin' it

He said, "If you stop, then I frame you, bitch"

That **** stuck to his word, he did her dirty

He testified on that bitch and he got out early

What's the first thing they teach you when you get status as a thug?

Status as a thug

That trust more valuable than love

Valuable than love

Little splatters from the blood

But on this block, that's just what it was

You never know

When trust more valuable than love

Let me tell you what happened next, okay?

Same mother, two different pops

Two brothers from two different blocks, here's the plot

Some other shit, one a hustler, one into stocks, that's Lee

Kinda tried runnin' the streets but it didn't pop, change his life around

He get props for gettin' out, before it got hot

He the oldest, his lil' bro is just colder, he in the blocks

He remind me of a **** I'm sendin' through if I get the drop

I like that lil' ****

They fuckin' on the same bitch, don't even know, she ain't low

Crib out in the 'burbs, she gave keys to both, she exposed

The truth when she was nine months, gave Lee a stroke

She never tried to meet my folks

She was somewhere skeetin' bro

And the child wasn't his, she played him like a sucker

Like a fuckin' sucker

He popped up to the nursery, killed the baby and his brother

You never know until you know

What's the first thing they teach you when you get status as a thug?

Status as a thug

Trust more valuable than love

Little splatters from the blood

But on this block, that's just what it was

When trust more valuable than love

All that love shit gon' get you hurt

Get you hurt

'Cause it don't add up to no plugs, you know why?

'Cause trust more valuable than love

Nice guys finish last

And tough guys gettin' tatted up with slugs, out here

'Cause trust more valuable than love

You never know

Here's how it went down

You never know

Small time petty thief

Crash dummy pedigree

Might think he gangster but he nothing like the Genevese

Caught a rapper slippin' and put a bullet in the leg of me

Wait, I mean the leg of him, life feel like it's testin' me

The rapper never answer when a D.T.'s is questionin'

Sciatic nerve, severed it, he's on prescription medicine

Had to learn to walk before he got back to his self again

'Cause feelin' like you cripple leaves him with a sense of helplessness

Now we feelin' devilish, only one way to settle this

The rapper does his homework, he get governments and addresses

The rapper got patience, plus friends in high places

And he knows a shooter without a gun, not dangerous

The shooter on the run, for other stupid shit he done

The rapper drops a number one album, he's back out havin' fun

Catch that dirty mothafucker when he finally gets sent to jail

And have B.S.F. carved in his face with a dirty nail

You never know

The first thing they teach you when you get status as a thug

Is trust more valuable than love

More valuable than love

Little splatters from the blood

But on this block, that's just what it was

When trust more valuable than love

All that love shit gon' get you hurt

Get you hurt

That shit don't add up to no plugs, know why?

Add up to no plugs

'Cause trust more valuable than love

Nice guys finish last

And tough guys gettin' tatted up with slugs out here

'Cause trust more valuable than love

You never know

More valuable than love

You never know

Never know

You never know till you know