Lift Em Up Lyrics

When they was down I showed em love, Dust em off and picked em up

But then they got the nerve to say I didn't do enough

Drag my name through the mud to make yourself look so clean

Seen the envy in your eyes, I just had to read between

The lines and all your lies, had to realize you a hater in disguise

It be your own guys that'll stab you in the back

Saying they want you to win, but they don't really want that

You gotta watch the people you be lending hands to

And it's a cold world, you gotta watch the shit your man's do

Just because they say they love you, don't mean they want you to win

Pretend they drowning, when you help em, they just pull you in

When you ballin' they around you, when you down they say you fake

But forget the times before, when you put food up on they plate

Them folks ain't acting different, they always felt this way

They just hid they ill intent behind the daps and smiling face

When they was down I showed em love, Dust em off and picked em up

But then they got the nerve to say I didn't do enough

Drag my name through the mud to make yourself look so clean

Seen the envy in your eyes, I just had to read between

The lines and all your lies, had to realize you a hater in disguise

It be your own guys that'll stab you in the back

Saying they want you to win, but they don't really want that

See, my own brother did me green when I was 18

Shoulda known better, putting trust into a dope fiend

Them crackas jammed me up, cuffed me up, took me to jail

He said "don't you worry bout a thing, I'll come and pay your bail"

A couple hours pass and I'm still in the county

I get to thinking "did this man fuckin' forget about me?"

This where he did me wrong, I tried to call his phone

Hello, please leave a message after the tone

When they was down I showed em love, Dust em off and picked em up

But then they got the nerve to say I didn't do enough

Drag my name through the mud to make yourself look so clean

Seen the envy in your eyes, I just had to read between

The lines and all your lies, had to realize you a hater in disguise

It be your own guys that'll stab you in the back

Saying they want you to win, but they don't really want that