Juice x Kid Laroi: Pops Song

by John Bembry

Black and white, green the only one that really matter
Can’t stop, was taught to go and chase whatever that I’m after.
The cops, want me dead but I can’t ever let that happen.
Thank Pops, because without it my life would’ve been a disaster.
Day and night, pray these lyrics change my life
The pain, you can feel within every word that I write
No shame, just get tougher with every battle you fight.
No prison can’t take my vision, same for the ones that’s inside.

Summer 0’10 chillin’ wit friends. Long story short 15 my first offense. 3 felonies,

trialed as an adult, I’m just a kid. All the drama in my life and I’m feeling like this is it.
Now it’s over, if you love someone then keep them closer
No one is promised tomorrow so I stay focused
Trying to live with the pain is hard I know it.
I been rapping for years, they finally saw me as a poet
Where’s the crowd? I hope everyone can listen
Don’t ever doubt a person’s worth because they went to prison
4 years and now he home, it’s crazy how I still miss him
A puzzle that’s not complete. Pieces of me was missing
I found them way deep inside, and now I’m completely finished
Inglewood baby how I end up over here in Venice
Over 10 years now since I beat that sentence
Thank God I’m still here through all the good and all the sinning

Black and white, green the only one that really matter
Can’t stop, was taught to go and chase whatever that I’m after.
The cops, want me dead but I can’t ever let that happen.
Thank Pops, because without it my life would’ve been a disaster.
Day and night, pray these lyrics change my life
The pain, you can feel within every word that I write
No shame, just get tougher with every battle you fight.
No prison can’t take my vision, same for the ones that’s inside.

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