Lyrics
You know a lot of niggas be
Reflection on the risks and dangers faced by individuals in the streets.
Getting Knocked off to the game you feel me?
Reference to people facing consequences in the street life.
I know a lot of young niggas
Acknowledgment of young individuals facing unnecessary deaths.
That be dying for no reason
Commentary on the senseless deaths occurring in the community.
Making mistakes in the game
Recognition of mistakes made within the street lifestyle.
You know this hood lifestyle, this
Reflection on the entrapment within the hood lifestyle.
Do you feel me? Like they're trapped
Expressing the feeling of being trapped in the streets.
You know the cold to the books
Reference to the harsh realities and rules of the street life.
All that shit man it's a
Recognition of various challenges and hardships in the streets.
Just runnin around just to get
Describing the pursuit of survival in the streets.
You get locked up
Highlighting the consequences of getting arrested.
And you feel me to take the forty to fifty
Reference to the need to resort to violence for survival.
Do you feel me? RIP
Tribute to those who have passed away (Rest In Peace).
A lot of niggas die i know a lot
Acknowledgment of the high mortality rate in the narrator's environment.
The boy want to come up
Introduction of a character aspiring to improve their situation.
He talking bout doubling up
Narration of the character's descent into criminal activities, including robbery and drug dealing.
He stay sipping the double cup
-He even play with other stuff
-People in his ear sayin' bro
-You don't do enough
-And he worried about keeping up
-Long nights no sleep from
-Lying to these girls made them sour
-Make em like girls
-But they don't really like girls
-But niggas in they life was
-Scareless to the point, straight to the point
-Look when he point, he got the kind of swag
-You know that he cat
-He thinking he need more
-One night he made up a plan
-That's cutthroat, he had a couple friends
-They had a couple things
-He made a master plan, and the rule was greed
-He was gonna rob his best friend
-With the mask and the beenie
-The day after that he got a
-Plan to sell fake weed
-To out of town town people
-This shit is crazy people
-Its motivated by the evil
-You see a shady vibe, you look equal
-He killed a few people
-Still acting like we equal
-Bought a couple whips
-But that ain't shit, if you see through
-He live his whole life in
Reflection on the consequences of a life fueled by competition and violence.
Competition with the next
-Last time I heard he got blasted in the chest
-Life gets cold if you don't love others
Emphasis on the importance of love and unity in the streets.
How I'm gonna grow if I wanna kill my
-Brother
-How I'm gonna love your family like my mother
-This real street game
-Never sell out your brother my niggas die
-It's Lil B a lot of niggas die
Reiteration of the high mortality rate and loss in the narrator's community.
Yes, yeah a lot of niggas die
-RIP all my niggas that make mistakes
Recognition of mistakes made by others who won't get a second chance.
But they ain't getting back from now
-You know all my motherfuckers you're trying
-To lick pull the cable
Encouragement to stay positive, make legal choices, and pursue success despite challenges.
And they getting back from that
-You know they're doing that time
-And they you know knock down the laws
-This thugging shit
-It's just a high up, a plan to keep you
-And keep the cops paid
-You say fuck the police
-You hate the police, but the police Love you
-When you thuggin
-You know you taking the hard time chances
-Be smart, you know make sure you legal man
-Get your money
-Do what you gotta do stay positive
-That's the best one
-You know a lot of niggas
-They got murked fooling around
-And they ain't getting no second chance
-It's your boy Lil B
-PYT, pretty young thug man mixtape
-Foolin around, foolin around
Conclusion and identification of the song as part of the "Foolin Around" mixtape.
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