Real Out Here

Man, things ain't changed out here, just different people occupyin’ the same spots, meanwhile, people sittin' in them high seats, not seemin' to care, c’mon

[Verse 1]
Listen it's real out here, nothing becoming easy
What's the deal out here, people be acting greazy
Been a long while since we had a good hot dinner
We chasin' money but that money went as fast as a sprinter
It's gettin' wild in these streets, they say that we crazy
But y'all the ones building the prisons to lock up our babies
Tough to get ahead when somebody's pressing us back
You created the ghetto, man, how you expect us to act?
He got a pistol on him plus in his truck a machine gun
Hard to learn to be a man if I never seen one
Daddy locked up, yeah, they sent them people to get him
Now it won’t be long ’til his son is in there with him
No groceries in the house so he out here prowlin'
How I’ma concentrate in class if my stomach is growlin'?
No strategy, waitin' for the problems to pass
Hard to play outside around broken bottles and glass, listen

[Hook]
It's real out here
What’chu know about it?
I said it's real out here
Y'all ain't livin' this
Y'all don't care ‘bout how we feel out here
Never have, never will
All these years and we still out here
Still out here, c'mon

[Verse 2]
Plot and plan when the sun's out and move at night
They got dropped in this grease, they ain't choose this life
Hard as hell tryna make a way beyond odds
You see thugs when you look at ‘em, I see young gods
You see criminals and drug dealers headed for jail
I see poor people tryna fight they way out of hell
Dirty projects full of roaches, maybe some rats
You know how hard it is tryna raise a baby in that?
Any hopes, any dreams get canceled fast
Y'all mad ‘cause baby girl flippin' stamps for cash
You say they hustlin' the system to produce a [?]
But y'all complaining ‘bout a situation you created
Enemies necessary to obtain some loot
Dice game on the court, kids can't even hoop
It ain't nothin' to hear some gunshots flyin' around
Picture a five year old seein' a dead guy on the ground
Watch it

[Hook]
It's real out here
What'chu know about it?
I said it's real out here
Y'all ain't livin' this
Y'all don't care ‘bout how we feel out here
Never have, never will
All these years and we still out here
Still out here, c'mon

[Verse 3]
Stress on the mind, ain't too many beautiful times
Twenty-nine cars ridin' in the funeral line
Mama's packed in the county tryna see loved ones
Broken hearted parents burying they teenage son
Over nonsense somebody we know gets killed
And if the streets don't get you then the police will
Catching cases on a daily basis, stressed with life
CPS snatching our children left and right
Hood fights every night, tension live on stage
Opioids in the hood now, this ain't no phase
Never had nothing so he pullin' moves and stunts
‘cause he wanted to have some name-brand shoes just once
And half the school teachers talkin' out the side of they neck
They don't care about the children, they just gettin' a check
And most people that can help us be turnin' they back
Until you see it in your neighborhood, then you react, listen

[Hook]
It's real out here
What'chu know about it?
I said it's real out here
Y'all ain't livin' this
Y'all don't care ‘bout how we feel out here
Never have, never will
All these years and we still out here
Still out here, c'mon