Reasons For Seasons

[Verse 1: Terrace Martin]
It's big T-M, leaning off to see grams
Eyes blood shut, look at him and you'll see him
Now who has become but his mother's son
The same one who avoided guns and picked up the drums
Had you marching to a different beat, stood you on your feet
I looked out, helped you off the streets
I gave you advice to heed a new life to lead
And return, you took my kindness for weak
When I was at my lowest, truest colors start to show
And niggas I call friends weren't answering their phone then
That's when Quik words rang true
Be careful who you hand your celebrity to
Uh, didn't get it til that very instance
Since then, between me and them, I put a little distance
Niggas so lame for saying "Bro, it's a shame"
Disloyal like a house, sold your soul for this game and you still broke nigga

[Chorus: Neka Brown]
Sometimes people go as quick as they come
They say that is nothing new under the sun
Cause time reveals all our reasons
Things change in life just like seasons

[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]
Little Kendrick from the hood
I'll show you that my motto always been to give you love
I'm putting out good music in return to build a buzz
That's bigger than life itself or some bubble kush plug
Won't you look at the mirror
You see a pair of eyes that's quite similar to mine
And if you do, that shit should scare ya
Baby brother of Compton, tryna accomplish
The impossible, with obstacles at my daily grindin'
Oh no, here come the critics but not from the magazines, I mean
The blocks that were so called mad at me, they're mean
'Cause soon as success is in my favor
They'll try to break down my character like I ain't from [?]
Quite frankly, and it hurt my soul to hear a nigga
That I know talking bad, and tryna play me
Like we ain't had pelle gunfights, falling off of many bikes
In the Buick bumping Clipse with no AC
Why would you shame me?

[Chorus: Neka Brown]
Sometimes people go as quick as they come
They say that is nothing new under the sun
Cause time reveals all our reasons
Things change in life just like seasons

[Interlude: Terrace Martin]
Yeah... mmm
So I was driving phone last night on the 101 freeway
And I look up... and this is something that says, "Love your friends and love your family"
And I thought to myself, why do we use these words so loose?
"Love, friends and family"
I mean if love's involved, why do friends and family hurt us, and why do we hurt them?
It's kinda like we all forgot the true definition of love, to begin with
The one thing I do know I, nor you can be accountable what somebody else does to us
We can only be accountable for what we do to them
So instead of sayin' "that's my friend", "that's my family" and "it's love"
I'ma say this to y'all

[Outro: Neka Brown & Terrace Martin]
So many words we say in vain
What are we really saying?
People never change
Truth won't be the same, no