Highest Form Of Understanding (H.F.O.U.) - Trick Trick, Xzibit

Yeah, the first night I spent in California

I was homeless on Venice Beach, yeah

It was all a dream

Came to California at seventeen

Little nigga tryna bubble up from the crack scene

It got so complicated, then I graduated

Haters so mad I made it

How could I fly so high, only to feel so low?

How do they live so fast only to grow so slow?

Like when you showing no support for your kids

But got money for marijuana just to smoke with your friends

Or that woman who survives and beats cancer

Only to be drowned in debt with no answers

The frequency of tragedy, it happens so rapidly

That we became numb, we embraced this insanity

Some wack-job haul off and smoke his whole family

Reality T.V. that’s not based in reality

Stuck watching train wrecks, everybody going for self

Self worth is important but for money and wealth

This mentality of «me, fuck everything else»

It’s a virus, a disease, I’m a victim myself

But I swear before I leave, I’mma fix it, I swear

I’mma fix it, I swear, yo, you better beware

Rich boy kill his own wife, knocks her teeth out

Cuts her fingers off, then escapes with a suicide

The king of pop died, Michael Vick was fighting dogs

But he walked and did his time, let him throw the fucking ball

As the markets keep crashing and people get desperate

Putting faith in the false feeling so disrespected

Turn to this record, the highest form of understanding

Understand me, fight or flight for your family

Come, walk with a soldier

Come, talk with a soldier, yeah

Cinderblock stop shooting straight from the shoulder

As we all get older and hope falls over

And damn, you were six years sober

And just like that, now you back where you started, square one

And you can’t bring it back once that bullet leave the gun

As the planner gets smaller, prepare for the North American Union

A (?) to replace your dollars

Narcissistic society, love paparazzi

Get to Starbucks for your overpriced latte

Ignoring all the signs, «nevermind» is your mindstate

Until the end of time, shit is closer than you think man

I done been in situations where the only thing that I could do was read the

Bible

Went in to the hill, child, with a sharpened piece of metal, the only way of

survival

Made up my mind that I don’t ever wanna return, chance was given again

Now I’m back out in the world, made a promise to God for living in sin

I can never lie to God but it’s so hard to live right

I’m carrying seven-point-six-twos to fistfights

Ain’t nobody playing fair, they cheat, no cheat

I ain’t fitting to be the topic of the preacher’s eulogy speech

The word say, «turn the other cheek» that’s what they teach us

But Peter sliced the ear of a nigga rolling on Jesus

I don’t want applause I’m doing what I’m supposed to do

I’m a real nigga, one from a million, chosen few

Everlasting pain has got my brain, it’s like it’s trapped inside a maze

Have you been unfaithful to the game?

Damn shame

Eighteen years, you never believed him

That’s your son, go and see him, motherfucker

You fucked his mother

The goddamn common courtesy never applied to you

'Cause you thought she lied to you

You couldn’t see your own mother in his face

If you die, he’ll be in a better place, bring the tape back