Closest Friends

[Chorus ?]
Some of my closest friends
Are doing time
Some of the realest niggas I know
Are doing time
Some of my closest friends
Are doing time
The most beautiful people in the world
Are doing time

[Verse 1: Dame Dub]
I recall running through the school hallways, being chased
We was always into something, even at a young age
We went from [?] in elementary
To eventually pulling fire [?] and going to penitentiary
[?]
By the turn of the century we was [?]
We rode [?] anybody that [?]
Wife beaters muscled up, one hand [?]
Studdied islom and excepted black nationalism
In our quest to understand why so many blacks in prison
American capitolism, [?] death ro
[?] dope
[?] playgrounds [?]
[?] stay out the way and [?]
I got out, but ya'll still my dawgs
[?] as real as ya'll

[Chorus ?]
Some of my closest friends
Are doing time
Some of the realest niggas I know
Are doing time
Some of my closest friends
Are doing time
The most beautiful people in the world
Are doing time

[Verse 2: Bakarii]
Fuck a Benz, fuck a [?] fuck a crack sack
I'll pay the judge a bunch of cream, and bring them all back
Their reaction [?] consequences
We held it down on the block, [?]
[?] little nigga wanna be a crook
[?] book
Cause [?] it's a dirty game
From all the snitches and [?]
[?] that mack and make them back away
But it's [?] they asking for that gat to blaze
Cause they [?] put him on Fox News
Me, I just [?] the blunt, and do what the hustlers do
[?] staying on my P's and Q's
See I grew up around them busters, so I know the rules
Know how they crawl, know how they wanna [?]
So I [?] while you [?]

[Chorus ?]
Some of my closest friends
Are doing time
Some of the realest niggas I know
Are doing time
Some of my closest friends
Are doing time
The most beautiful people in the world
Are doing time

[Verse 3: TXX Will]
This is for the people everywhere that's been locked away
We can represent it for you everytime this record play
This is like a letter that goes on forever
That's telling you to stay strong, and keep it together
So get your mind right, stay focused, try to be patient
You gotta make the best out of a bad situation
Next time you feeling depressed, or even fed up
Think about this song one time, and hold your head up
Public schools get screwed across the nation
Money for education is used for encarseration
I come from poverty and hard times on the block
Wittness brutality all the time from the cops
And it's a shame how they get away with profiling
Cameras in the stop lights, nothing we can do about it
Lawyers, judges, and public defenders
With tax payer's money, with a scandalous [?]

[Chorus ?]
Some of my closest friends
Are doing time
Some of the realest niggas I know
Are doing time
Some of my closest friends
Are doing time
The most beautiful people in the world
Are doing time