Never Lettin Go Rittz

[Verse 1:]
1995, I saw my first friend
Get buried in the ground; we was traumatized
We was just smokin' out up at Timmy's crib
Now we at his funeral and his momma cry
I got two years and then Charles died
Both of 'em gone from a homicide
All of sudden murder wasn't so uncommon
The innocence that we had was gone inside
Before we quit high school, selling drugs was cool
Now all of sudden hittin' licks for the drugs was in
My close homeboys from the robbin' crew
Put me in the middle stickin' up my friends
No wonder why nobody didn't trust me when
The door busted in, they tied up and gagged
And the guy with the gun that's behind a mask
Is some dude you used to sit behind in class
Let's ask hoodie guy a bunch of time he had
To sit down, found guilty, his youth was stripped
He called me collect when we ususally spit
A bunch of dope ass rap, cause the music shit's
The only future that boosted our optimism
But the time was ticking as we lose our grip
Years of boozin', and usin', abusin' drugs'll
Prove you on how we used to live in this...