I remember all the rappers we would call dope
React naive to raising any false hope
Just assuming that his life would be picture perfectGiving credit to a rapper when he didn′t deserve it
Analytical with every single interview
It's pivotal if you take a artists words literal
High hopes trying to smoke think it′s all sweet
But disappointed and let down when y'all meet
Caught off guard corny and embarrassing
To think that you looked up to dude that's so arrogant
What you expect just some mutual respect
And the truth cus you grew up to his shit is just more excuses
Full of lies and uncontrolled ego
That′s why they say never meet your hero
Man
He didn′t act like what he spit up in his verses
When I met him in person broken promises
They say you can have it all
Be whoever you dream you can be
Just when you're set to take off
You′re hit with road blocks of broken promises
They insist that we're free
But I always feel somebody′s watching me
I walk the streets with a clenched fist
In life's parade of broken promises
Agnostic Christian Islamic
Let′s live in the morning where we smoke chronic
Have a cup of coffee while we speak honest
You don't want to free me I'm done being modest
That′s why I got my bachelors and I get high
Higher ed makes it harder for black and brown to get by
I get why they don′t want us to learn bout the cell pipe
They sell hype broken promises in the gas light
I ackrite and be moving with no bodyguard
Embody god like all the people who body god
I find it odd those are the people who suffer hard
Life's a mirage the water′s becoming hard to guard
They say you can have it all
Be whoever you dream you can be
Just when you're set to take off
You′re hit with road blocks of broken promises
They insist that we're free
But I always feel somebody′s watching me
I walk the streets with a clenched fist
In life's parade of broken promises
Truth be told I rarely would believe a promise
Feeble scholar ain't a reason for your breathing nonsense
He astonished by some weed grown for legal dollars
He ain′t being honest he was ceded in an evil province
Speech polished like a shoe when the movies old
Don′t look around the room when your duty calls
All night driving looking for verse quotes
And mesh furloughs when I bet on that third horse
Exacta, box that bet if you have to
That's ones step closer to a promise attached to
A vast chapter staying humble in a page turner
We don′t have to make a promise if we take it further
They say you can have it all
Broken promises and shattered dreams
Torn apart like the pages of a magazine
The kettle off the flame drained running out of steam
The feeling of a drug dealer trying to balance out his beam
The reason why my best friend turned out to fiends
No confidence low self esteem
But who's to blame him The game done broke him to pieces
Sleeping on the streets people treat him like he feces
Another victim of a broken system
No use in trusting politicians or putting hope with them
So he get it how he can selling dope for fixings
Caught concurrent cases bout to go to prison
But he feeling like jail′s a better home to live in
Least he get a small bed and some warm linen
He said shit that's a guarantee
Three hot′s and a cot with a pair of sneaks
They say you can have it all
Be whoever you dream you can be
Just when you're set to take off
You're hit with road blocks of broken promises
They insist that we′re free
But I always feel somebody′s watching me
I walk the streets with a clenched fist
In life's parade of broken promises
