Understand Video (MV)

Never been through the same shit you been through
I'm just tryna learn please expand my mental
And I can't feel that hurt that you always can
I can only do so much as to understand

Never been through the same shit you been through
I'm just tryna learn please expand my mental
And I can't feel that hurt that you always can
I can only do so much as to understand

I really just wanna be like you Nas
I really just wanna be like you Cole
Tell me how you defeated all of your odds
I just wanna tell all the stories untold

Inspirations ever since my boy had put me on
I try to put my life right in these verses in these songs
And if you ever think you life the worst but you don't got hunger or thirst
Then please don't ever try to say I'm wrong but

I'm not saying that your that struggles not important
But look around and see there's plenty of misfortune
And in the city all these hoods contain orphans
So New Orleans
Is just an orphanage

The only thing they know is how to bang
There's no dad to teach em how to be a man
Then the cycle starts itself over again
More and more families start to feel the pain

Never been through the same shit you been through
I'm just trynna learn please expand my mental
And I can't feel that hurt that you always can
I can only do so much as to understand

Never been through the same shit you been through
I'm just tryna learn please expand my mental
And I can't feel that hurt that you always can
I can only do so much as to understand

This aint the reality of my life
I can only imagine the pain
The daily fight, the struggle for you life
Just a child am I right?
No one in their right mind would let this happen overnight
But we got to bed easily because they never in our line of sight
But cops always got em dead in their line of sight
I can't blame the cops though a gang member with a pistol
With little left to lose neither wanna see the light
But it's not the cops fault its the system
If you just sit down and talk but you need to listen
Years of oppression and it feel like politicians
Making people slaves because they under their jurisdiction

But there's also personal responsibility
You can make it out the only possibility
But its hard the average life span is 18
Or when you get shot because your someones family

Never been through the same shit you been through
I'm just tryna learn please expand my mental
And I can't feel that hurt that you always can
I can only do so much as to understand

Never been through the same shit you been through
I'm just tryna learn please expand my mental
And I can't feel that hurt that you always can
I can only do so much as to understand

Some bad seeds always blurring peoples visions
Most people trying to make the right decision
Most kids envision the television, is now their life
Sports or spitting on the mic the only way of life
Most people trying to get a job
But the system only spits you right back at the start
And then they expect you to get a job with your charge
Man they just trying to make it hard
But growing up seeing crime scenes and the screams
Another mother mourning her deceased teen
Just another shooting on the tv screen
What does it do to a kid with such big dreams
It doesn't give em any hope
Maybe they should push some dimes
Maybe sell some dope
This the life of children that grew up but were to broke
In a broken home but they had no where else to go
Stories untold