August Alsina - Testify lyrics

I remember waking up
Being broke but still it wasn't breaking us
I remember why I broke the rules 'cause I
Ain't really have nobody to look up to
I remember cutting class
Being bad 'cause I ain't have
What them other kids had
I remember wishing that I knew my dad
Then I remember wishing I could get him back
For every night that he told me
He was coming and he didn't
For every single dollar that my
Mama and then was missing
For ever thing I wanted and was
Told I couldn't get it
And that I had to face it
That my daddy was addicted
That's right it wasn't easy growing up
Mama was exposing us to life as she knew it
So we all went through it
I remember being down and out
Sleeping on my homie's couch
In and outta trouble ever since
My mama kicked me out
Damn it's getting real
Damn it's getting real didn't graduate
I'm thinking damn I gotta deal
So I hit the block
Selling rocks just to eat a meal
So I grabbed the Glock, kept it cocked
Peace is being still
In the back of the tracks
My niggas stayed with the packs
And if a nigga was scheming
My brother stayed with the Gat
Yeah yeah, we stayed in the trap
Yeah everyday in the trap
These hoes was chasing the cheese
So we would stay with the rats
And we was riding down, dipping low
I stayed in the back
In the stunting, we ain't know how to act
Spending money like it's nothing 'cause
We gon' get it back
17 never thought that I'd
Be getting them racks had a dream but I said
I wasn't fucking with that
Mel told me I would make it
I ain't fucking with that
But he told me that it wouldn't
Hurt to give it a try
Hardest thing out in New Orleans
Never seen 25
Right then I woke up, broke out
Told my niggas had to roll out
Moved to the A and got motivated
That inspiration don't run out
Heard my brother got gunned down and
It hurt me to my heart
So I kept grinding, I kept pushing
He told me to go far
So I can't stop at no crib
Can't stop at no car
Gotta keep going like there
Ain't no tomorrow
So I'm going hard everyday 'til
I got nothing to say
Nothing can stand in my way
I gotta stay to show my
Niggas a different way

I'ma tell the truth and the whole truth
'Cause there ain't no need to lie
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside
So I gotta testify, for you and I, I testify
I'ma tell the truth and the whole truth
'Cause there ain't no need to lie
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside
So I gotta testify, for you and I, I testify
I'ma tell the truth and the whole truth
'Cause there ain't no need to lie
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside
So I gotta testify, for you and I, I testify
I'ma tell the truth and the whole truth
'Cause there ain't no need to lie
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside
So I gotta testify, for you and I, I testify

I testify, I testify