My Brother

Yo, if y'all don't mind I'd like to share a little something I wrote

About the closest **** to me, ya heard me?

My motherfucking brother, ya know

And it ain't gotta be a blood brother, ****

It could just be a thug brother

We tend to say things that we don't really mean

Like I hate you and I hope you die tomorrow of some deadly disease

I never meant a word, ****, I was speaking out of anger

At times, I treated you as if you was a stranger

We both shared poverty, eating commodity

You never lied to me or knocked me for nothing I tried to be

You was in the house sharpening your art skills

And I was in the backyard doing cartwheels

Running with the **** mama told me leave alone, come home

Stealing bikes, even though I knew my rights from wrong

I used to envy you 'cause you was intelligent

And I hate you was a strange way of telling it

But that was irrelevant

You was in the good schools, I went to the gutter with the thugs

Where the **** shot dice and all the teachers did drugs

You my **** 'til I'm dead and gone

And I love you like you was a part of me

And that's why I'm singing this song

That's my ****, my nerve, my one love

The one who wouldn't change on a ****

'Cause we share the same blood

That's my ****, my nerve, my one love

The one who wouldn't change on a ****

Don't change on a ****

That's my ****, my nerve, my one love

The one who wouldn't change on a ****

'Cause we share the same blood

Even though I never told you, at times I tried

So I praise you while you alive

Now even though we look at life differently

You probably had a better view

But when it came to hoes, I was way ahead of you

I went to school with 'em, used to fool with 'em in class

In the hallways, trying to get some ass with my hall pass

You did homework and I did bitches

You was plotting on how to pass, I was plotting on some riches

It showed in the report cards

You paid attention to the teacher, I was looking at the sport cars

In the magazines with my headphones, knew when I was dead wrong

Cutting class, going everywhere but home

When you got the job, mama and them was proud, I was jealous

You worked late nights, I ran the streets with the fellas

In a rush to be grown, you was still more mature

'Cause you handled your own, plus my heart was pure

But you my **** 'til I'm dead and gone

And I love you like you was a part of me

And that's why I'm singing this song

That's my ****, my nerve, my one love

The one who wouldn't change on a ****

'Cause we share the same blood

That's my ****, my nerve, my one love

The one who wouldn't change on a ****

Don't change on a ****

That's my ****, my nerve, my one love

The one who wouldn't change on a ****

'Cause we share the same blood

Even though I never told you, at times I tried

So I praise you while you alive

Let me hear you say oh-oh-oh, ooh, yeah

The only one for me

Come on, let me hear you say oh-oh-oh, ooh, yeah

The only one for me, yeah