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