Salute

[Intro]
Hopeless
Just feel hopeless
We ain’t got nothing to lose
Give me a little more
A little more, JP
Turn me up a little more
Uh

[Hook 2x]
Salute to all the real niggas
Salute to all the real niggas
Salute to every real nigga
Salute to all the niggas like me
Hustle, we just wanna get rich
Born in the hood, we ain’t never had shit
But one day, I’m gon’ have my day
And one day, I’m gon’ fade away

[Verse 1]
Young nigga living like Caine and Harold
Young nigga born at the bottom of the barrel
I just want to make it out the hood
Niggas want to put my head on the other side of the barrel
Daddy died when I was a little boy
I was 10 years old, wasn’t in my teens
I growed up, still miss him so much
That I close my eyes and see him in my dreams
Man of the house at a young age
I lost a lot of homies to the gunplay
My uncle smoking dope on the back porch
My mama pushed me out the womb, nigga get paid
They say whatever don’t kill you just make you stronger
What don’t make you stronger, I guess it will kill ya
To all of my niggas that’s hopeless
And they ain’t got nothing to lose, my nigga, I feel ya
Hold on to what God gave to me
I show ‘em love even though niggas hate this much
Never put more on you than you can bear
But god, I don’t think I can take this much
Bulletproof vest, I’m blessed, no evil
Last night, I had a conversation with the reaper
I told him, “you ain’t got to come and get me
‘Cause when I’m ready to go, I’ma get up and meet you”

[Hook 2x]
Salute to all the real niggas
Salute to all the real niggas
Salute to every real nigga
Salute to all the niggas like me
Hustle, we just wanna get rich
Born in the hood, we ain’t never had shit
But one day, I’m gon’ have my day
And one day, I’m gon’ fade away

[Verse 2]
I put my whole heart into my songs
I can fit the whole world into my palms
And all my niggas running to the graveyard
Lord knows I don’t want to die young
Tell me what you think about before you squeeze that trigger
And take a nigga life, all you gave was a bullet
Time is a gift, not a guarantee
So every day, you better live life to the fullest
Young nigga, young nigga, young nigga
Be smart, can’t be a dumb nigga
But who am I to tell you right from wrong
When I’m right here in the slums with ya
I represent the nigga that they left out
They forgot about, no help, no hope
Nigga threw ‘em in the water, no ship, no boat
No chance at life so we flip more dope
I feel you
And I hope you feel me
I got to preach that shit ‘til I reach them jits
And I ain’t gon’ stop ‘til a fuck nigga kill me
Got to be the realest nigga breathing
And if I ain’t, then bet I’m one of them
Might as well ride with my cannon
‘Cause everybody dying being unarmed

[Hook 2x]
Salute to all the real niggas
Salute to all the real niggas
Salute to every real nigga
Salute to all the niggas like me
Hustle, we just wanna get rich
Born in the hood, we ain’t never had shit
But one day, I’m gon’ have my day
And one day, I’m gon’ fade away