Don’t Need Them

[Intro]
Yeah-yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus]
They say blood don't make you family but loyalty does
Lately, I been showin' love to people that don't show love
It's like the more you show 'em love, the more they don't give a fuck
And the more I stick around, the more I'm seein' what's up
They don't really be there for me when I need 'em
It's like they say they there but I don't really see them
Ayy, but I see right through 'em, I can read them
And these voices tellin' me that I don't need them

[Verse 1]
All the pain and all this sufferin' got me thinkin' about my brothers
They done drained out all of the love, got me thinkin' about some other
And I pray God forgive me for all these sins 'cause I've been punished
The one way to heal this pain from all this rain that I been under
And i got people with these high expectations of me
But they don't understand everything that was taken from me
You don't understand these people used to take it from me
I don't understand these people I'm just chasin' a dream, yeah
Got a lot of shit on my mind, I've been think on
I went deep off in that water, feel like i'm sinkin'
I was down bad by myself, nobody gave me nothin'
So I sip purple cause I'm better off when I'm dreamin'

[Chorus]
They say blood don't make you family but loyalty does
Lately, I been showin' love to people that don't show love
It's like the more you show 'em love, the more they don't give a fuck
And the more I stick around, the more I'm seein' what's up
But who really there for me when I need 'em?
It's like they say they there but I don't really see them
Ayy, but I see right through 'em, I can read them
And these voices tellin' me that I don't need them

[Verse 2]
All this trauma that I been through, I'm afraid I seen the devil
And my mama say I'm changin' but I'm changin' for the better
When you accomplish shit up in the hood, you don't get a medal
They don't wanna see you doing good, just laugh and lift yo' head up
They'd rather see you locked in shackles and watch all of your dreams shatter
Now you mad at the world but that don't even matter
'Cause you sittin' in that cell with no visits or no mail
No money or no bail, just dreams that wa failed
And I been losin' so many of my niggas, it got me numb now
And I been takin' these drugs and prescriptions that help me calm down
Don't nobody know the real reason I don't come 'round
'Cause I might cock it back and squeeze it just to hear that gun sound
Yeah, it's sad but it's true
Lost my brother, told his killer, "I got a casket for you"
Ain't nothin' in store for your future but the past tense for you
And they gon' keep on killing even though it's bad for the youth

[Chorus]
They say blood don't make you family but loyalty does
Lately, I been showin' love to people that don't show love
It's like the more you show 'em love, the more they don't give a fuck
And the more I stick around, the more I'm seein' what's up
But who really there for me when I need 'em?
It's like they say they there but I don't really see them
Ayy, but I see right through 'em, I can read them
And these voices tellin' me that I don't need them