"The message"
We saw this life as plain and beautiful.
It became critical
when we made this game a ritual.
It's a shame we do the things we do
Just to live this life we go through.
You got niggaz bustin' at you
And you bustin' back
for a common dollar.
Now you sittin' in cells at night
just wantin' to holla.
In the beginning it was all sweet,
making G's a week,
pushing all types of whips,
looking forward to out of town trips.
Now your highlights
Are commissary trips and A to Z visits.
You used to look forward to hopes and dreams
Now you watch your back for the next nigga to scheme.
This life's about cream
from beginning to ending.
We only caught the message
that the devil was sending.
I was 18 and in the belly of the beast when I wrote that. A lot of people have a lot of bad things to say about jail. But the reality is that most of us that live and was in that savage state of mind needs to be in jail, if only for a little while.
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