Broken Promises (feat. Equipto, Michael Marshall, MC Pauze, Professa Gabel, Monk HTS & Baghead)

I remember all the rappers we would call dope React naive to raising any false hope Just assuming that his life would be picture perfect Giving 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