Believe Me

Oh man I wish I knew, I wish I knew it then

But I don't let it stop me you know I'll be back again

All the mistakes I've made, trouble that I've been in

It shaped me into the person you see standin' here

I wish you knew me back when I was young

You could see me, and just how far I've come

So don't judge me, you don't know me

Please, oh yeah believe me






Yeah

Up to third grade it was all As, fourth and fifth grade was the hard days

Detention and suspension was an always, by the time high school it was the hallways

Them was the wish I had a car days, 'cause all the stewards that was trapping they was all payed

And we was all broke, that's when the law broke

Cops catch us wouldn't say a word like our jaw broke

Picture me back then, look at me right now

Preforming in front of twenty thousand on the mic now

I caught a couple cases, I had to pipe down

Was living in the dark I'm in the light now

You grind hard, then you shine harder

I'm going hard like my last name Carter, Dwayne, Sean, and Vin

Who'll play my life if I be born again






Oh man I wish I knew, I wish I knew it then

But I don't let it stop me you know I'll be back again

All the mistakes I've made, trouble that I've been in

It shaped me into the person you see standin' here

I wish you knew me back when I was young

You could see me, and just how far I've come

So don't judge me, you don't know me

Please, oh yeah believe me






Yeah, don't have to listen to me, you don't have to believe a single word I say

No, that's what my mother told me, still I went out and learned everything the hard way

And I've been crying, no no, I've been crying, no no

Oh yeah, she told me to grow up, I grew up and stood up now each day I move up again

I got a minute to say what I want, trying to make for everything that I've done wrong

But that made me who I am, and if I broke your heart, well I'm sorry again






Oh man I wish I knew, I wish I knew it then

But I don't let it stop me you know I'll be back again

All the mistakes I've made, trouble that I've been in

It shaped me into the person you see standin' here

I wish you knew me back when I was young

You could see me, and just how far I've come

So don't judge me, you don't know me

Please, oh yeah believe me






Thinking back when I was in the trap

Without a dollar to my name, I wasn't thinking rap

Niggas say I change, ask what I think of that

I say change for the better, I'm never thinking back

I should be a power forward

Shitting so much I think my toilet outta order

Take 'em out the box they like a fish up out the water

But me, I'ma survive, put that on my Ma swear to God

How you gonna win when you never try

I can see my future like I'm living in a mirage

Everyday I'm living life like I could never die

Old clothes in my closet, new whips in my garage

New chick in my bedroom, old chick by my side

New watch on my wrist saying this is my time

So don't judge me, just love me

Their is nothing above me

My future so pretty, say God don't like ugly






Oh man I wish I knew, I wish I knew it then

But I don't let it stop me you know I'll be back again

All the mistakes I've made, trouble that I've been in

It shaped me into the person you see standin' here

I wish you knew me back when I was young

You could see me, and just how far I've come

So don't judge me, you don't know me

Please, oh yeah believe me