Never Lettin Go - Rittz

1995, I saw my first friend

Get buried in the ground;

we was traumatized

We was just smokin' out up at Timmy’s crib

Now we at his funeral and his momma cry

I got two years and then Charles died

Both of 'em gone from a homicide

All of sudden murder wasn’t so uncommon

The innocence that we had was gone inside

Before we quit high school, selling drugs was cool

Now all of sudden hittin' licks for the drugs was in

My close homeboys from the robbin' crew

Put me in the middle stickin' up my friends

No wonder why nobody didn’t trust me when

The door busted in, they tied up and gagged

And the guy with the gun that’s behind a mask

Is some dude you used to sit behind in class

Let’s ask hoodie guy a bunch of time he had

To sit down, found guilty, his youth was stripped

He called me collect when we ususally spit

A bunch of dope ass rap, cause the music shit’s

The only future that boosted our optimism

But the time was ticking as we lose our grip

Years of boozin', and usin', abusin' drugs’ll

Prove you on how we used to live in this…

The street life, those street lights

Don’t seem bright no more

The devil’s got a hold of ya soul

And he’s pulling you below

Caught up in this street life, those street lights

Don’t seem bright no more

The devil’s got a hold of ya soul

And he’s never lettin' go

Back in the day she was kinda fine

But drugs took a toll on her pretty face

That along with hard times combined

These days you’ll find her website online

She quit stripping and now she gettin' paid to escort

It’s fucked up she was the girl from next door

Now you can see her ad right next to sex toys

And all you gotta do is hit the local sex store

It made a lot of people lose respect for her

But check yourself cause only God can judge her

She blamed her family her step-father touched her

She tried to tell her mom but her mom’s to drunk to

Really give a fuck and the thought disgusts her

She sat back and watched her daughter suffer

So her trust in love and life lost it’s luster

Anyway I hope you rocked a rubber

If you fucked her though

Cause shit gets thick like the fur on the neck of a buffalo

When you piss and your dickhead hurts

But you gotta let it burn like an Usher song

And try to play it off like nothing’s wrong

I know it won’t be long

I see my homie Scoob and said he said «What ya know?»

He said that you gotta reap what you sow

So many people try to swim against the undertow in this…

The street life, those street lights

Don’t seem bright no more

The devil’s got a hold of ya soul

And he’s pulling you below

Caught up in this street life, those street lights

Don’t seem bright no more

The devil’s got a hold of ya soul

And he’s never lettin' go

We was young and dumb and full of bad ideas (bad ideas)

So for the past five years (past five years)

I be looking back like, «Shit!

How the fuck I make it?»

I’m just glad I did (glad I did)

Slick called me up and told me, «Black got killed,»

I was like, «For real dawg?"in disbelief

Somebody shot him up a couple years back, he lived

Now he’s gone for good I pray he rest in peace

It’s terrible knowin' that you will never see

Your friend’s face again

I guess that’s why protection is a necessity

You can expect to see your life expectancy be that long

When you let the streets become your second home

They ain’t have a choice;

accept your role

Hoping that they get to see the next episode

Someone’ll shoot you in the head and won’t sweat it

They cold-blooded never lose a wink of sleep

And the cops don’t care neither it’s squat to them

Your dead body’s just another crime scene to sweep

And I ain’t never been a gangsta but thanks to Gwinnett

Growing up I done seen some things

I just hope that the friends that I named in this song

Are watching over with their angel wings while we livin' this…

Street life!

The street life, those street lights

Don’t seem bright no more

The devil’s got a hold of ya soul

And he’s pulling you below

Caught up in this street life, those street lights

Don’t seem bright no more

The devil’s got a hold of ya soul

And he’s never lettin' go

Caught up in this street life, those street lights

Don’t seem bright no more

The devil’s got a hold of ya soul

And he’s never lettin' go