[Intro - dj khaled]

Keep your circle tight

Trust no one, nobody.

[Verse 1 - scarface]

Gotta be careful who you trusting

Beware of your surroundings when you hustling

Them niggas smiling at you ain't your friends, dawg

All the real ones are dead or in the pen y'all

You fuck with dude, he your day one

Almost had it all then the day comes

When they walking through your house with the strap out

Pointing at your head, got the bread then you blacked out

Bright lights down the hallways

Left his best friend for dead for the small wage

They say that every doors got a day coming

It's like he seen a ghost but he ain't sayin' nothing

Eyes wide shut like he looking at me

Window pains to the soul say that nigga's happy

But the pictures ain't say them words and we dry stomach

The homie didn't keep it one hundred

The cops doing roundups, say they got a suspect

Finally got a name now, I'm still thinkin fuck that

For money, niggas murder what they close to

Entire families is these motherfuckas ghost you

Smoke you, was it worth what the life was?

Just prepared for the payback because it strikes, cause

Was it worth what that life was?

Prepare for the payback when it strikes, cause.

[Bridge - john legend]

When you need it the most ain't no one ever around

Cold world, cold world.

[Verse 2 - jadakiss]

The pain's unbearable, remains unwearable

He fuck around jump of a building if you dare him to

The greats they done already killed him, who you compare him to

You really figure out what he said will take a year or two

Family over everything, skills over politics

He don't need the accolades as long as you acknowledge it

Just playing the hand you was dealt, no aces

Betrayal was worse than death in most cases

The world is filled with hypocrites, this so racist

Multiple shots to the face, no chasers

Mad cause you blew up quick and you excited

Your man that you grew up with get you indicted

This was your nigga, yo

For him you let the trigger go

Found out at the trial they got audio and video

Shit don't always happen how you plan it

Get jammed up and really find out who your fam is

You could feel the picture, you don't need to see the canvas

That nigga jay'll a hawk you, he don't even play for kansas

You know when it's someone you love the hurt's pure

When you front, tryna hold it in, it hurts more

He was right there back-to-back with me, my first war

Even had a crack spot together, the first floor

Used to buzz him in, then meet him right by the first door

That was 'prolly a year before I went on my first tour

Friendship was worth more than a couple of ounces

He was 'sposed to be with me, arguing with the bouncers

Instead you ended up somewhere far in the mountains

Talking 'about what we was doing, what we was counting

None but, old pictures of old sixes

Old bm's with the kids, old snitches

Two sides, both wishes

Karma is the sister of life, they both bitches.

[Bridge - anthony hamilton]

See there's a story in my life

There's a story in my pain

There's a story in my tears (oh, oh)

There's a story in me.

[Verse 3 - meek mill]

Yeah, for life

Lord forgive me for my sins, I was chasin' ends

And I'm into makin' money, I ain't in to making friends

Cause these niggas rattin', I ain't finna take a chance

Homie said he 'bout that action they grabbin' me take the stand, damn

Say loyalty make a man, got a homie and he told

I don't even shake his hand, I don't even crack a smile

Knew him since a child, man this game so foul

But niggas made vows to a code I never break

Ridin' in the heavy weight

Thirty-six o's in the bird, call it feather weight

Never on time, when I show up I be ready late

Niggas got fat while we starved they already ate

And I'm trying to get full, masks on clips full

If he got the money we attack him like a pitbull

We sellin' soft, we sellin' hard like it's a brick store

On my dick, nigga, thought that's what your bitch for.

[Bridge - akon]

My pain ain't never been told

All the success that I'm suffering from

Came from this knowledge I sold

My family fucks with me

And fought the enemy that stood in my way

That's why I don't trust nobody

And I doubt you'll ever see that day

'fore I surrender to you, surrender to you

Surrender to you, surrender to you

Which I will never do.

[Bridge - john legend & anthony hamilton]

Cause when you need it the most ain't no one ever around (nobody's around)

Cold world, cold world (yes it is)

And the ones that you keep close are the ones that'll take you down (only take you down)

Cold world, a cold cold world.

[Hook - akon x2]

'fore I surrender to you, surrender to you

Surrender to you, surrender to you

Which I will never do.

[Bridge - anthony hamilton & john legend]

See there's a story in my life (surrender)

There's a story in my pain (surrender)

There's a story in my tears (surrender)

There's a story in me (I won't surrender, I won't surrender, no, no no)