[00:00.00]letter to my brudda (Explicit) - 21 Savage [00:01.56]Lyrics by:Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph/Paola Barba/Tyrese McGriff/Kavi Lybarger/Park Min Geon [00:04.90]Composed by:Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph/Paola Barba/Tyrese McGriff/Kavi Lybarger/Park Min Geon [00:08.24]Produced by:Lil Tyh/KXVI/g06beatz [00:10.03]Woah woah woah [00:12.46]Once you cross that line it ain't no tryin' to fix it [00:15.36]You want me to forgive you let's be realistic [00:18.00]I can't kick it with your kind like I tore my meniscus [00:21.14]How you go from co-defendant to a ******* witness [00:24.12]They'll stand on couches with you but won't stand on business [00:28.77]Woah [00:29.73]I watched everybody turn on my brother [00:31.78]Like he ain't have 'em out here flyin' jets and ******* ******* [00:35.49]This **** ridiculous [00:37.73]I feel your pain my brother [00:39.95]I know you from the struggle [00:41.35]I know how hard you hustled just to take care of your mother [00:44.29]I know you took clothes off your back for niggas you call brother [00:47.33]I know how hard it get in this jungle [00:49.11]Tryna prevail without bein' tried like you no sucker [00:52.38]Huh life's a ************ yeah [00:56.58]I know ain't nobody perfect [00:58.01]But what's the point in makin' it out if all they do is cuff ya [01:02.07]You know we be comin' from like [01:03.31]The worst conditions the worst circumstances [01:06.32]The trenches the gutter [01:08.95]And sometimes we be forced to make decisions [01:10.77]That we don't even wanna make [01:12.81]It be about survival [01:15.55]At the end of the day we be havin' good hearts [01:18.43]They just be in bad places [01:22.04]I guess that's life though [01:25.93]Father God forgive me for my sins [01:28.06]Take the mask off all my enemies that's out here actin' like my friends [01:31.86]Did some **** I'm prayin' I never gotta do again [01:34.55]I put blood sweat and tears inside this win [01:37.60]If I take care of my hood the prosecutor call me Gotti [01:40.70]Turn my back on the hood they probably kill me probably rob me [01:43.80]It's a Catch-22 I'm bein' honest [01:46.74]Hard work tryna keep the past behind me [01:50.04]I still be havin' flashbacks 'bout Johnny [01:52.80]Fast forward and the major label signed me [01:56.28]Had to hustle had to focus perseverance [01:59.44]Mama used to go to TJ Maxx and shop on clearance [02:02.42]Tayman and CJ I can still feel they spirits [02:05.44]Skinny and Wanwan used to rap I know they hear it [02:08.47]It ain't that easy puttin' pain inside of lyrics [02:11.60]Send this up to Heaven so they can clear it [02:15.83]Y'all know like real street niggas gon' feel this **** [02:19.63]And I don't want niggas to get misunderstood [02:22.28]'Cause the rules we live by don't even matter no more [02:27.12]Just a just a setback for you to come back [02:30.76]Can't hold a nigga down forever [02:32.62]Know what I'm sayin' [02:34.86]'Til then we gon' hold this **** down straight up