Artist: Jericho Jackson
Album:  Elzhi and Khrysis are Jericho Jackson
Song:   Seventeen
Typed by: kirenamloh@msn.com

[Elzhi]
Yeah, yeah...

At seventeen, you wouldn't be the youngest corpse heaven seen
For a pair of Air Jordan's size 11 clean
you would hustle during REM hours
If you pushed up daisies or gaura stem flowers
Look alive, now everyone has your best interests at heart
Wouldn't be close if y'all was inches apart
The interesting part at sixteen, you work a shift at Mickey D's
Read comic books, kept your room clean and your grades up
But now they slippin, like Bloods hangin where they Crippin
Quick to cock back, stick the clip in
You see how girls love the jewelry drippin
And gossipin about what they whippin
You and them never locked lips when you were sixteen
You lost your virginity a month ago
Weeks before that, you started puffin dro
Hangin with the wrong crowd, joyridin in the stolen car
Bangin songs loud, moms kicked you out the crib
Cause you stayed out all night
Stay high all day, and that will make you fight
You thinkin you grown, you only seventeen
You wouldn't be the youngest corpse that heaven seen
For a pair of Air Jordan's size 11 clean
You would run up on a nigga, steal somebody's car and empty out the reverend's jeans
Now you off the pills, pushin wheels
And stacking up some dollar bills, how it feels
to live the life you hear about portrayed inside of rap songs
and see inside of movies made by Paramount
Your moms prayin for you, wonder what the prayer 'bout
Is it to duck low in areas that your rivals airin out?
Last week your mans got shot, but he'll recover
He came home, murdered one and lookin for the other
So now you stay strapped at all times
Cause life involves crime that could kill you like the fall from a tall climb
Plus you live under the same roof with his granny
Livin wild, takin xanny, sniffin nose candy
When you got the call from your first tellin you
that she hasn't had her period - of course, you wasn't hearin it
Young and inexperienced, you were just sixteen last year
Working drive-thru as a cashier
Sometimes you past there and reminisce
Now you in some hot water and your choices are to swim or fish
Cause last night is when your spot got raided
Be lucky that no hot shot sprayed it
You thinkin you grown, you only seventeen
You wouldn't be the youngest corpse that heaven seen
For a pair of Air Jordan's size 11 clean, you would risk it all
Keep your mouth shut or stab a knife into your brethren's spleen
Those are repercussions that you probabaly ain't seen
Hope you make better decisions when you're eighteen
If you doin jailtime and wipe the slate clean
Hope you make better decisions when you're eighteen
Once you learn the definition of what fate mean
Hope you make better decisions when you-{*gunshot*}

"Too many fake friendships nowadays
 I'm gonna give you my own insight on this subject
 When we talk of people not being who they say they are
 We meet people, they turn on us, they change
 We're like, 'Wait a minute, what are you doing?'
 I say it's all about looking how to attract positive versions of yourself
 and negative versions of yourself
 You see, a lot of us
 We see someone and they're smiling, they're happy
 they're singing, they're full of joy
 And we say, 'Oh, I like that person.'
 But you haven't seen their other side
 Now depending on which side they show you
 That is gonna form an image of them in your mind
 That is why a lot of us, we don't show our negative side to people
 Because otherwise, we're not gonna have any friends
 I say, it's all about knowing who you are to attract the right people
 to assist you in becoming your greatest version
 When we talk of how to spot a fake friend or how to find the right friend
 I say, for instance, right now in this social media world
 You can have thousands of friends, but ask yourself
 On a rainy day when you're home alone, will they be around?
 Will they be around when the times are hard? Prob'ly not."