Never Give Up

My nigga called me from the pen
Just reminiscing
I want no money, just told me
Just send him pictures
Spent three, four years since he been gone
Say he can't get none of the homies on the phone

He say
Everybody switch on him
Co defendant snitch on him
In and out the hole
Got his mind playing tricks on him
Say his main man took the stan
And made a statement
And his baby mama pregnant with another nigga baby
And his brother out here thuggin
Sister out here tricking niggas
Mama got diabetes, having problem with her kidney
And his granddaddy just died
And his grandma got cancer
Keep calling this lawyer
But that bitch don’t never answer

She posed to put in for a appeal, but it is what it is
He got seventeen years, he just tryna do his bid
But he never knew the world was so cold like this
When he down on his dick, nigga fold like this

I just let my nigga vent
Let him talk his shit
Told him I ain't forget you
I promise I been here with you
I just went to see your son
I just prayed for your mom
I've been going through shit to bro
You ain’t the only one

I've been through some struggle in my life
I thought it had me
But I made it through
So many nights that I cried yes I cried
I'm so tired of this pain
But I could never give up (no no no)
No I could never give up (no no no)
And I keep fighting a thousand times
Hundred thousand times again
Hundred thousand times again
But I could never give up (no no no)
No I could never give up (no no no)
And I keep fighting a thousand times
Hundred thousand times again
Hundred thousand times again

Two-thirty in the morning I'm just laying in the bed
Just staring at the ceiling, while I'm smoking weed
Thinking 'bout who gon' take care my kids if something was to happen to me in these
Streets

But so many times I wanted to risk it all
Who gon' pick up them pieces if a nigga fall
I think about my dead dawgs and them tears fall
They kill my dawg at the red light
Did my little nigga like Biggie Smalls

From the city where the good die young
Spend our life chasing bread
Just to die over crumb
And these young niggas slanging that
Big iron banging that
My ’hood need Jesus, where the fuck Kirk Franklin at

Cee-Lo got shot and he was on his deathbed
But the whole world was worried about what Kanye West said
Fuck the intern, Mr. West and Mr. Trump
Fuck the politics, we going through real shit where I’m from

I've been through some struggle in my life
I thought it had me
But I made it through
So many nights I cried yes I cried
I’m so tired of this pain
But I could never give up (no no no)
No I could never give up (no no no)
And I keep fighting a thousand times
Hundred thousand tines again
Hundred thousand tines again
But I could never give up (no no no)
No I could never give up (no no no)
And I keep fighting a thousand times
Hundred thousand times again
Hundred thousand times again