The Realness Songtext
von Babyfather

Further ahead
You know them ones
I remember my man said don′t waste time doing
A crime if it's already been done, you know
Don′t waste time doing a crime if it's already been done
Do you know how real that is?
The feds know these things, you know
You gotta be smarter than that
That's why I′m here, you know
Not just to play tunes like that
But to show man certain things, innit
You can rise up and be better like
You can like, you know, like advance yourself, innit
You ain′t gotta be doing these like fuckery's, little tings, or what
You can like move up and move onward
You know them ones
I′m chatting too much anyway, let me just play the fucking tune


For me and many others on the street
Friendship was based on who's there for you
And that included having your boys back, no matter what
I personally saw it as a way of showing love and keeping it real
For most peeps on the street
When someone had your back it created a silent special bond
For some of us, that bond was like a life insurance policy
And even though we became tight
I still wasn′t 100% certain that they had my back to the end
There's too many fake ass Suge Knights out here nowadays
I couldn′t tell who was real and who wasn't
When it came down to it
I realised that the only person I could depend on 100% in beef, was me
Trust is a luxury I can't afford
Betrayal′s something I can′t ignore

If I'm honest
I didn′t even know what the full
Meaning of keeping it real was anymore
I assumed it meant always backing the mandem's beef
Never snitch, never touch a bredrin′s wifey, and never snake man
I couldn't understand why most of the mandem I parred with
Found it so hard to maintain these simple guidelines
We never had no oldest backings
They all went when their flats got knocked down
At this time, I found a lot of realness and comfort
In listening to one NY rapper called Cormega
His tunes had me in the zone
Especially when I had a spliff to hand
My favourite album at this time had to be ′Cormega - The Realness'
I finished through that album from
The first track, all the way through
The interlude alone had me pulling up the track over and over


Yo, when you deal with niggas, you know what I'm saying?
You gotta know where they stand
Cause everybody′s your man when things are going right
Uh, but what about when things are going wrong?
Then the first verse, he killed it
Ask yourself, am I your man?
Would I die for you or by your hand?
If I go broke, would you divide your gram?
Put me in your plans?
Hold me down with your heat if my shit jams?
And then the chorus said it all
If I died, would you cry?

Nah, this type of tune here, you know when you wanna rise
Up with like a fucking Marcus Garvey ting, or something
You know them ones
It′s one of them type of tunes
You know them ones