Testify - August Alsina

I remember wakin' up being 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 daddy told me he was comin' and he didn’t

For every single dollar that my mama knew 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

Sleeping, on my homie’s couch

In and outta trouble ever since my mama put me out

Damn it’s getting real, damn it’s getting real

Didn’t graduate, I’m thinking damn I gotta deal

So I hit the block, selling rocks just to eat a meal

So I grabbed the Glock, kept it cocked

Peace is being still

In the back of the tracks

My nigga’s stayed with the packs

And if a nigga was schemin'

My brother stayed with the gat

Yeah, yeah we stayed in the trap

Yeah everyday in the trap

These ho’s was chasin' the cheese

So we would stay with the rat’s

And we was riding down, dipping low, I stayed in the back

In the X5 stunting, we ain’t know how to act

Spendin' money like it’s nothing, 'cause we gone get it back

17 never thought that I’d be getting them racks

Had a dream but I said I wasn’t fuckin' with that

Mel told me I would make it, I ain’t fucking with 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 nigga’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 going like there ain’t no tomorrow

So I’m going hard everyday

'Til I got nothin' to say

Nothin' can stand in my way

I gotta stay

To show my nigga’s a different way (way)

I’m 'a tell the truth and the whole truth

'Cause 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’m 'a tell the truth and the whole truth

'Cause 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’m 'a tell the truth and the whole truth

'Cause 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’m 'a tell the truth and the whole truth

'Cause 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