Fake Persona

Nobody knows which is the real or fake

Always trying to find out which one is adequate

Ones always tryna assassinate the other

So you just don the mask of your fake persona

Rickie now older just entered better college

Just acknowledged he'd be empowered with the knowledge

To maintain sustain the pain in his brain

Even though he doesn't know if he'll even remain

Nobody knows if they like the real him

So he wears a fake mask as if it were a chain

That's why when the cool guys offered him drugs

He couldn't say no cause he didn't have the guts

That's when he took the first puff of weed

Thinking their street cred was all he would really need

Rickie thought his life really couldn't get any worse

Cause after he got HIV he thought his life was cursed

Spouting all this shit like he go diarrhoea

But keeps it lowkey ain't no social media

angel dead there's no hero in him

That's when he started taking heroin cause

Nobody knows which is the real or fake

Always trying to find out which one is adequate

Ones always tryna assassinate the other

But you just don the mask of your fake persona

Rickie thinking that he's in with the cool kids

Didn't even know that it really was far tougher

But he thought that he'd finally fit in

Was finally cool and was finally popular

See Rickie in reality always hated drugs

But in front of them it looked like he loved smoking blunts

Rickie was feeble and knew it wasn't legal

But in front of them would always take a damn needle

Then Rickies grade flopped mums now thinking he's brainwashed

Keep going like this he gon' end in a graveyard

But Rickie now who the real him is

Thinking he's playing them just like it's a game

Gonna keep on acting so he doesn't get any shame

But he can't forget where he grew up or came

Didn't know that the fake persona he was using and him

were becoming one and the same

Nobody knows which is the real or fake

Always trying to find out which one is adequate

Ones always tryna assassinate the other

But you just don the mask of your fake persona

Rickie's acting like they queens and kings

Even though all they do is fucking sell bricks

Rickie's acting like he's under british rule

So he obeys them and starts skipping school

Rickie's acting like he has no mind of his own

Following them just like he a mindless drone

Amplifying what they say like a microphone

He's been reeled in so call that a miked roe phone

Even though they spend money so they can't pay bills

Rickie's acting like what they say is God's will

Even though they just get wasted and faded

Rickie's mind seems to just gets illuminated

Even though they talk shit behind his back

They let Rickie into the group so he can't argue with that

Figures that "coolness" is what he lacks

So he give in to them and starts taking crack

Nobody knows which is the real or fake

Always trying to find out which one is adequate

Ones always tryna assassinate the other

But you just don the mask of your fake persona

Rickie's taking all the drugs and he's starting to like it

He thought this shit is actually good and he won't try and fight it

He thought I've already done it once might as well try it

But he's just killing himself like he a suicide pilot

But the plane he's flown is out of control

Doesn't even know if he's flying to the goal

Wishing to go back in history like a time capsule

Making money disappear like a Bermuda triangle

Rickie dropped outta school and homeless too

All the friends he was with you know the crew

Ditched him as soon as his money was through

They just sacked Rickie and he the quarterback

But that ain't gonna let him get his quarters back

He remembered the crew only pitched quarters back

when he used to be the one funded__pitching in hundreds

All them tryna convince him buying illegal substance

Rickie thought he was playing them but they were playing him

Made his fake persona he was using the real him

Made the drugs he was abusing the real thing

Made the mind he was confusing so afflicted

Cause now Rickie realized to all these drugs he's addicted