[00:00.21]Royce da 5'9" - Strong Friend
[00:01.87]Reflections of your strong friend
[00:04.80]You need to check up on your strong friend
[00:07.44]Nobody ever checks up on your strong friend
[00:11.13]Uh strong friend
[00:13.46]I remember 2003 out hear screaming We next
[00:16.59]I was gripping that 300 Rockin Rye Lexus GS
[00:19.66]I put rhinestones on my durag
[00:21.43]I put on leather pants
[00:22.80]I went to parties just for Bacardi
[00:24.62]I tricked I never danced
[00:26.13]All my friends expected to be treated
[00:27.80]Just as my next of kin
[00:29.38]Eyebrows lift up
[00:30.29]If I'm out with them and let them spend
[00:32.49]The question is
[00:33.43]How is y'all problems becoming my problems
[00:35.75]I'm already hiding all of my problems
[00:37.62]Behind my pop' problems
[00:39.14]When I was nine
[00:40.05]Seen my father beat the sh*t out of my momma
[00:42.67]I'm smiling right now
[00:43.90]I'm trying not to cry about it
[00:45.63]Alcoholic
[00:46.18]I just spent five thousand tryna buy bottles
[00:48.67]Of Patron again
[00:49.78]Now sing along with your strongest friend
[00:52.12]Suicide it's a suicide
[00:55.31]Suicide it's a suicide
[00:58.54]Suicide it's a suicide
[01:01.68]Suicide it's a suicide
[01:05.72]You need to check up on your strong friend
[01:07.63]The one with strength that's never gon' end
[01:09.67]The one with sense take care of several grown men
[01:12.12]Pay they rent and then they trade on him
[01:14.00]The Devil play to win
[01:15.36]I remember I had Maia Campbell in my Mercedes Benz
[01:18.55]You probably thought she gave in to the plot Satan's sin
[01:21.21]She got demons greater than you and I
[01:23.69]And this message is to Denaun and to Shady
[01:25.84]You say we friends
[01:26.85]Well take care of Lyric
[01:27.92]80 and baby Quinn like they Hailie then
[01:30.51]It's sh*t is my funeral
[01:31.42]Y'all should play all of my songs too
[01:33.41]Hope my body look beautiful
[01:34.73]While I lay in my strong suit
[01:36.50]Rumors spread about me that aingt true
[01:38.38]That's how the fake do
[01:39.86]If I'm the strong friend
[01:40.92]Then what the f**k do that make you
[01:44.46]Check up on your strong friend uh
[01:50.13]It's funny they laugh at me because I'm different
[01:53.87]But I laugh at them because they're all the same Kurt Cobain
[01:59.63]We're all just suicidal kids
[02:01.20]Telling other suicidal kids
[02:02.77]Suicide aingt the answer Kendrick Lamar
[02:07.58]The worst thing to cause somebody is crazy
[02:10.21]It's dismissive
[02:11.71]I don't understand this person so he's crazy
[02:14.28]That's bullshit these people are not crazy
[02:16.20]They're strong people
[02:17.74]Maybe their environment is a little sick Dave Chappelle
[02:23.16]Black people don't know a goddamn thing about therapy Self
[02:28.71]Capital STEEZ Tyheim Chester Bennington
[02:35.85]Rest in peace my strong friends