Don't Be Foolish

Verse 1

I will never get why

Someone would go and take someone else's life

Just for the love and respect for street thugs that won't show that same love back

You see I

Lost the lives of my hero's and family members because of all this

Gun violence

Nipsey was just trying to go and support his city

Just for it to turn it's

back on him

Just for some coward to go and

blast on him

Right in front of his kids

man that ain't right

For them to see their own father lose his life right in front they eyes

For that moment to be replayed in their heads every single night

Put away the guns and knives

It ain't time to fight

My people, we gotta stand together and unite

And I know there's some people who might

find that corny

But I'm just sick of mourning

I'm sick of seeing kids dying on news stories

I'm just

Sick of it all

But it ain't time to give up now

We gotta stand tall

This is for all

The people whose lives have been lost

This for for X

This is Nipsey

For everybody who can't be with me

This is for Kayla

This is for Richard

I'm  here to make a difference

This is for the kids in Columbine

Sandy Hook

Parkland High

Raise your fist high

This is for Trayvon Martin

My people

Put your hoods on

Wear 'em proud and show ‘em that we're strong

We won't back down

We've been kicked around for too long

But we won't any longer

Let's show ‘em that we won't be bothered

Let's show ‘em when we get knocked down

We get back up even stronger

And honestly

The part that really broke me

Was seeing a video of a childhood friend of Nipsey's

Breaking down crying in front of the sight of where he died

That really got me thinking

That this life we're living can be taken at any moment

So live it to the fullest

Don't waste It in regret and don't spend it blasting bullets

This Needs To Be Said man,  Don't Be Foolish

Verse 2

These are real lives that you're taking from us

Grow a heart

Because when someone's gone,  they're gone

You can't just press a button and restart

We shouldn't be scared to go out for a little stroll at night in the park

We shouldn't be scared when walking home from a homies house after dark

We shouldn't be living in constant fear,  always looking over our shoulder

And honestly the weight on mine has been feeling like boulders

But I won't let it crush me,  I thought I told ya

That we gotta stand tall

And if we stand together

Ain't no that we can fall

I just wanna be a source of light

In this dark stormy weather

Come on people,  we could do better

I'm only 19

And honestly

all this negativity around me that I'm seeing

really got me thinking

That this life we're living can be taken at any moment

So live it to the fullest

Don't waste time in regret and don't spend it blasting bullets

This Needs To Be Said man,  Don't Be Foolish