What up homie?
Been a minute since I've been over what you told me/
About pain, about glory, I would always listen closely/
But I took the lessons that you taught and wrote a different story/
'Cause I'm grown now. What you on now/
since you lost out helping me be a man even when I fall down?/
It's one of those days where my night's been disturbed/
I awaken choked up and my sight is a blur/
And I think about the night you left life premature/
Only 18. You used to blaze trees/
Record like your lungs and liver, nah, they really ain't clean/
But you and I were two of the same breed/
I don't think a better person could've made me/
Two youngsters raised by new mothers/
Who never got the chance to find a man who'd love us/
But, rather get the kind of man who was too rough and/
I was just too small at the time to do something/
Fact remains, what I am today/
Might not've happened if you hadn't passed away/
We knew you for your temper, with your hands we'd say/
my homie packed a jab just like Cassius Clay/
So putting hands on his mother was a bad mistake/
My man with the hands imbued another view/
To be a man if you put hands on my beloved few/

My dude, I'm telling you right now we're missing you/
Always know all the homies are missing you
Yeah your cousin right now she missing you/
Your moms you already know she's missing you
I really hope this is something you'll listen to/
Best believe I'll always be missing you/
I know now I could never make it right/
But till the day I die I'll remember you for life/

What up homie? I'm kinda different now/
I've calmed down, grown up, and took a different route/
Not the scrapper that you knew, man my fists are down/
And I hope with what I say you can listen proud/
My life ain't sizing up and fighting punks/
lighting blunts and mixing up codeine inside my cup/
Ain't messing with them pills, can't say I tried them once/
or rolling out in someone's whip and getting caught driving drunk/
The lifestyle which you had adhered /
would have me drop what I earned and I would lose my career/ and
I question if my current obligations/
would deter you taking pride in the friend that you have taken/
But I wonder,what you be saying half the time /
would you still be saying now? Would it still apply?/
Are you still 18? Are there things you haven't tried?/
Have you aged at all? Do you grow old in the afterlife?/
I gotta say I'm not sure how I'm thinking of ya/
Are you still my father figure or my little brother?/
Either way from the bottom of my heart/
Imma thank you for instilling things that my Father never taught/ like
You always told me it's fine to be emotional/
To remember I write and let emotions go/
And until we have each other's back again/
So in your memory I'm my Mother's champion/

My dude, I'm telling you right now we're missing you
Always know all the homies are missing you
Yeah your cousin right now she missing you/
Your moms you already know she's missing you/
I really hope this is something you'll listen to/
Best believe I'll always be missing you/
I know now I could never make it right/
But till the day I die I'll remember you for life/