The Remorse

[00:24.35] Yeah (huh)

[00:30.99] Yeah

[00:34.97] Look, me and Lil Sandra bagging CDs in the bubble wrap

[00:38.16] People recognize me from the TV, but I'm done with that

[00:40.81] People don't wanna see me succeed, this shit come with that

[00:43.48] Even when I come back, I don't know if it's me that's gonna be coming back

[00:46.66] Soon as I left, I had to make peace with that

[00:48.79] Dropped out of school 'cause nobody was teaching that

[00:51.18] The Best Western's where a nigga was sleeping at

[00:54.11] Daemen College booking me to pull up and speak the facts

[00:56.49] Even if they make a movie 'bout us, this shit'll be hard to reenact

[01:00.21] Dislocated shoulder, it's hard to be always reaching back

[01:02.86] All these IOUs, it's hard for me to be keeping track

[01:05.53] Friends that dedicated they life to just keeping me intact

[01:08.45] Hard to pay 40, pay Noel, pay Niko back

[01:11.10] All the nights I needed to vent to someone and CJ sat

[01:13.76] All the nights Chubbs was pulling up where I need him at

[01:16.41] All the times Mark was making sure that my luggage packed

[01:19.33] At times he had to double back

[01:21.20] I mean even with a salary you can't put no prices on that

[01:23.85] There is no salary cap, there is no paying 'em back, for real

[01:25.18] I wonder what it could've been if I had snakes in the mix

[01:32.08] Actually, I never wanna know 'cause we made it like this

[01:34.74] Shots gotta fly either way now, make it or miss

[01:37.66] Overtime, I was all good, we take it in shifts

[01:40.32] What would you do if it wasn't this? That's a hard one

[01:42.71] The finish line is where I like to pull up and start from

[01:45.37] Pain is just a place that I go and get the bars from

[01:47.76] Anxiety's a drug that I use to get the job done

[01:50.69] Delusional is a space I like to think that I'm far from

[01:53.34] My son is the one thing I hate to be apart from

[01:56.00] Bet against me, don't know where they're getting their odds from

[01:58.92] I know that when it's done, I'm going wherever God's from

[02:01.58] But I still don't know where I get the calm from

[02:06.09] Yeah

[02:12.99] (Yeah-yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah)

[02:14.60] (Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)

[02:22.56] (Whoa, whoa-whoa, whoa, whoa)

[02:23.89] Yeah (whoa, whoa)

[02:32.66] (Yeah)

[02:33.99] Look, gotta hold my head high up with two dry eyes

[02:36.91] I told you everything is fine, dawg, but I lied

[02:39.29] I be tryna draw the line, but it's a fine line

[02:41.95] And I'm drowning out the noise from the sideline

[02:44.87] Sometimes it's louder than the voice I got in my mind

[02:47.26] I can't even hear myself when I get quiet time

[02:50.19] Like how they telling me I'm done when I'm in my prime?

[02:52.58] They've been tryna push the narrative since '09

[02:55.76] And they even had my ass convinced a couple times

[02:58.42] But that ain't even the half, I had tougher times

[03:01.08] Only look for sympathy inside my mothers eyes

[03:04.26] And it's whatever with them niggas on the other side

[03:06.65] We got problems we could never really put aside

[03:09.31] I cracked the door for us all, put my foot inside

[03:14.89] I tried to kill them boys with kindness, but they wouldn't die

[03:15.41] So now I kill 'em all for acting like they couldn't die, yeah

[03:19.40] My hard work doesn't just pay off, it pays all the family debts off

[03:22.85] I'm taking heads off, Future out here like Irving Azoff

[03:25.77] Houses paid off, label paid off, my soul for the money wasn't the trade off

[03:29.78] Unlike most of you boys that fade off

[03:31.90] I feel guilty taking some days off

[03:33.76] Please don't Google my net worth, the numbers are way off

[03:36.41] I mean if you comparing it to what I really made off with

[03:39.08] I'm more like Bernie with all the earnings that they came off

[03:42.79] Trust me it was nothing light, holmes

[03:44.65] They tried to give me a slice of the pie and I took the knife home

[03:47.31] I know you love me

[03:48.37] Can't picture being a hubby, finger too stubby to fit a ring on

[03:51.56] Unless Kawhi wanna run it back

[03:53.41] Other than that, the strings will be unattached

[03:55.28] Certified Lover Boy, I'm not the one for cuddling or none of that

[03:58.73] Y'all music gets watered down when you love 'em back

[04:02.98] And you know what I'm on, blowing past ya, owning masters

[04:05.10] Said you're like a father figure to me

[04:07.76] But now daddy's not around, so I'm a bastard

[04:09.62] Oh, of course, the only villain that show remorse when I owe you more

[04:13.34] Soft spot for all of the ones that came before, I can't ignore it

[04:16.00] I'm always tryna rekindle

[04:18.65] From the bottom to the top, man, what's it like in the middle?

[04:20.77] From the lemon-faced radio host that love to be bitter

[04:23.69] To my dawgs in the game who wasn't pick of the litter

[04:26.35] For the young Gs out here starting from the beginning

[04:28.75] Nobody praying for you when you winning, don't forget it

[04:36.71] (Whoa, whoa, whoa-whoa)

[04:37.24] (Whoa, whoa)

[04:41.50] (Whoa, whoa, whoa-whoa)

[04:42.56] (Whoa, whoa)

[04:46.02] Said it's hard when it starts to fade away

[04:50.00] Said it's hard when it starts to fade away

[04:56.64] Yeah (ooh, yeah)

[05:00.09] And it's hard when it starts to fade away

[05:07.00] Hard when it starts to fade away

[05:13.90] It's hard when the memories start to fade away

[05:16.29] Its hard when the memories start to fade away

[05:21.60] (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

[05:29.84] (Ooh, ooh) so beautiful

[05:42.59] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah