How Come

So, I changed, huh?

You got a phone

Pick it up, call me

How come we don't even talk no more?

And you don't even call no more?

We don't barely keep in touch at all

And I don't even feel the same love when we hug no more

And I heard it through the grapevine, we even beefing now

After all the years we've been down

Ain't no way, no how, this bullshit can't be true

We family, ain't a damn thing changed, unless it's you

We were so young, so full of life and vibrance

Side by side, wherever you was riding, I went

So close, almost on some Bonnie and Clyde shit

When Ronnie died, you was right by my side

With a shoulder to cry on and tissue to wipe my eyes

And a bucket to catch every tear I cried inside it

You even had the same type of childhood I did

Sometimes I just wanna know why is it

That you succame to yours and mine, I survived it

You ran the streets, I nine-to-fived it

We grew up, grew apart as time went by us

Then I blew up, to both yours and mines surprises

Now I feel a vibe, I just can't describe it

Much as your pride tries to hide it

You're cold, your touch is just like ice

And your eyes is a look of resentment

I can sense it and I don't like it

How come we don't even talk no more?

And you don't even call no more?

We don't barely keep in touch at all

And I don't even feel the same love when we hug no more

And I heard it through the grapevine, we even beefing now

After all the years we've been down

Ain't no way, no how, this bullshit can't be true

We family, ain't a damn thing changed, unless it's you

It was my dream at first to be off spitting a verse

On my own album with a deal, but shit got worse

'Fore I came out, I woulda killed a nigga first

'Fore I let him disrespect me, or check me over some worrisome

Bitch that I wasn't with, I woulda hit it and quit

But you were planning to talk with her and tell her she was the shit

I told you don't get involved with her

You would smoke in the car with her

Coming out of the bar with her, stumbling, half-drunk

Like y'all was husband and wife or something

But me catching her fuckin' other niggas

Must've hurt your pride or something

'Cause you woof off at the mouth to people

Like you want it with me

When all I tried to do was show you that your bitch was shifty

And ever since the fans and all the shit that I produced

You acting like I ain't your mans and lying like she can't be loose

But I am really your friend, I'm just trying to tell you the truth

Don't hate the game or the player, the one that's changing is you

How come we don't even talk no more?

And you don't even call no more?

We don't barely keep in touch at all

And I don't even feel the same love when we hug no more

And I heard it through the grapevine, we even beefing now

After all the years we've been down

Ain't no way, no how, this bullshit can't be true

We family, ain't a damn thing changed, unless it's you

It gets lonely at the top 'cause my homie had to stop

Now we acting like I gotta live only for the block

And homies in the hood only see me on the tube

So they gossip on the porch, get to speaking all rude

Fools I used to rap with all expect magic

Like my finger get to snapping and poof, it just happen

But Proof is just acting out the part he was thrown

Shady made it so my babies ain't starving at home

See the devil in your glance, since the ghetto, we been friends

Forever real intelligence, that's forever 'til the end

I peep the hatreds in your eyes and the Satan in your lies

Ain't wasting my time with these snakes in disguise

(How come) when you talk, it's with bitter and spite?

(And how come) it was my fault for what you did with your life?

And every time I go to hear you and play, you look away

We barely embrace, you can't even look me in my face

How come we don't even talk no more?

And you don't even call no more?

We don't barely keep in touch at all

And I don't even feel the same love when we hug no more

And I heard it through the grapevine, we even beefing now

After all the years we've been down

Ain't no way, no how, this bullshit can't be true

We family, ain't a damn thing changed, unless it's you