Testify (Explicit)

Testify (Explicit) - August Alsina

I remember wakin up bein broke

But still it wasn't breakin us

I remember why i broke the rules

Cause i ain't really have nobody to look up to

I remember cuttin class bein bad

Cause i ain't have what them other kids had

I remember wishin that i knew my dad

Then i remember wishin i could get him back

For every night that he told me

He was comin and he didn't

For every single dollar that my mama nem was missin

For every thing i wanted and was told

I couldn't get it and that

I had to face it that my daddy was addicted damn

That's right it wasn't easy growin up

Mama was exposin us to life as she knew it

So we all went through it

I remember bein down and out sleepin

On my homie's couch

In outta trouble ever since my mama put me out

Damn it's gettin real damn

Damn it's gettin real damn

Didn't graduate i'm thinkin damn i gotta deal

So i hit da block sellin rocks just to eat a meal

So i grabbed da glock

Kept it cocked peace is being still

In da back of da tracks

My ni**a's stayed wit da packs

And if a ni**a was schemin

My brotha stayed with tha gat

Yea yea we stayed in da trap

Yea everyday in da trap

These ho's was chasin da cheese

So we would stay wit da rat's

And we was ridin down dippin low

I stayed in da back

Stayed in da back

In the x5 stuntin we ain't know how to act

Know how

Spendin money like it's nothin

Cuz we gone get it back

Get it back

17 never thought that i'd be gettin dem racks

Had a dream but i said i wasn't f**kin wit that

Mel told me i would make it

I ain't f**kin wit that

But he told me that it wouldn't hurt to give it a try

Hardest thing out in new orleans never see 25

Right then i woke up broke out

Told my ni**a's had to roll out

Moved to the a and got motivated

That inspiration don't run out

Heard my brother got gunned down

And it hurt me to my heart

So i kept grindin i kept pushin he told me to go far

So i can't stop at no crib

Can't stop at no car

Gotta keep goin like there ain't no tomorrow

So i'm goin hard everyday

Til i got nothin to say

Nothin can stand in my way i gotta stay

To show my ni**a's a different way waaayyy

I'mma tell da truth and da whole truth

Cuz there ain't no need to lie

And i ain't tryna keep it all inside so i gotta testify

For you and i i testify

I'mma tell da truth and da whole truth

Cuz there ain't no need to lie

And i ain't tryna keep it all inside so i gotta testify

For you and i i testify

I'mma tell da truth and da whole truth

Cuz there ain't no need to lie

And i ain't tryna keep it all inside so i gotta testify

For you and i i testify

I'mma tell da truth and da whole truth

Cuz there ain't no need to lie

And i ain't tryna keep it all inside so i gotta testify

For you and i i testify

I testify i testify