[Verse 1: Ace Mac] Never snitched on a n***a Never ran from my foes Never took orders from a p**y Never ran with no hoes, never I keep expanding my goals, I know am good in every hood Cause I'm a man on my own, I never Ever chased the status' quo, gave my cash to a ho Or put my stash in my nose I never broke the code of silence, never shy from some violence I'm from Chicago where they get for just rocking your finest I never leave the crib without the Glock on my side I'm poppin' five in a coward before he throw up his sign And I never ever told this f**ers I'm ill They hear my music and they feel it cause the language is real And I never took a penny from who didn't deserve it And I been working on urgency Nobody is perfect on Earth is just different persons at work Somebody's last is your first, then someone's first is your last So do I lurk in my past? Never [Verse 2: Ace Mac] And still I'm rugged, don't you get it confused I could walk through any city, you don't fit in these shoes Never, I was taught to finish my food Move packs, hold bangers, n***a put in my dues And many nights were spent up cooking thinking "what am I doing? sh**, I could go to college, I should try" but I was influenced By goons, never thought I'd live to see 22 But when that 23 came I had to get in the game
But never, ever lost my grip of the truth I keep that sh** on my hip, and spit that sh** in the booth But clever, half the sh** I did for my crew The other half for my kids, I wasn't thinking bout you Whoever, b**h I came from visions of Lou Dodging prison sentences, living recklessness was my youth And never, never did I think I would lose It wasn't cause I'm the best, it's just cause I would refuse like never [Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco] Reduced into a gesture, send a message through a closed mouth Never talk to hoes through the hole of your saw house They're going south, but you keep it cool Like it's no clothes and there's no house and it's cold out Ayy, let me tell you what that ball 'bout Laying on the floor full of hoes, letting ghosts out Who you gonna call to take the hauntings out of your house? Exorcised the demons out the deep end of your profile We are, oh such a beautiful role now No mouse did wanna sing like a musical soul child Eyes on the prizzize, that's all lizzize What lies inside is the prize, keep your eyes on his eyes Disguised, closed curtains on the windows of my rizzide So you can't see me getting head on the inside Disguised, what's life if ain't nothing that rib eye? G, I keep it real, vampires getting k**ed, goodbye