For those who searched this and are listening with great emotion and heartache. You are loved. You deserve to live. Please remember you were chosen to exist. May God bless you and keep you safe
they been living like this. it's just that they either make it look all luxurious and expensive, or don't talk about their addictions at all. you're just hearing it all being put in a negative light for once.
Caught myself singing the chorus, it’s been year’s since I last heard it, now that I’m older it gives me a sense of loneliness. I miss the life I had then
I had to have been like 8-10 when this song came out and I first heard it. I'm 22 now with two kids and listening to music I heard when I was a kid makes me so sad lol. I miss being a kid.
Google this song i read a article that somebody interviewed him and ask him about this song. Wayne ended the interview quick and walk out. I believe something or sum thing happened to him in that studio that night.
After jamming to this song when I was younger, now coming back after I have fought several addictions it hits so different. I am sober now though, I did it and you can too. Whoever needs this, keep pushing. The WD’s don’t last forever even though it feels like you won’t ever get back to normal I promise you you WILL. KEEP PUSHING!! You got this.
I am on that see saw right now. Been for over a decade and then in 2021 got diagnosed with Leukemia and 6 doctors told me I didn’t even have months left. I was so relieved feeling like im about to be free from myself finally, and then in February of 2022 the day after a group of elders at our church prayed for my healing , I no longer had any cancer. No infected lymph nodes after having 40+ dead, and my blood had returned to normal! I was very angry. God saved my life that I was more than willing to leave and I also have Schizoaffective Disorder and since then my mental has been trying to get rid of me. Now I feel like I am here just chasing the rush and not concerning myself with sleep, just existing in a state of purgatory waiting to see if God or the enemy wins my battle this time. And that’s me up to this moment. Its just so strange and definitely frustrating because I still do not care who wins and their outcome happens. Just worn out being in the middle of the war between good and evil . And finally understanding that it has never been any different at any point from the beginning of time. Perhaps that is peace.
And when we were to stupid to realize that we were becoming addicts that some, unfortunately, would never recover. Times were great when we were high but there's ALWAYS a dry time when NO ONE ever seemed to have shit, that is when I felt like dying, the withdraw is another thing that I will never forget..
This song grew up with a generation… most of us escaped the addiction part but but can never fully escape the music or how we felt when we had first heard the songs… this is what real music is!
Idk about you, but I'm a millennial. Drug addiction has taken many of my friends, and caused many others to move to Florida where all the rehabs are. I'm one of the few lucky ones.
@@augustuscaesar8287 stay strong and try to stay away from the addiction. You might be the reason someone chooses the right path because they see how strong you are . Much love homie
The way he worded everything. The feeling of hopelessness boarding a plane without a pilot, the feeling of insanity with the flowers are dead line, and just starting the verse off with a “Pssssss” like he was a stranger on a bus dropping some weird ass drug philosophy is genius. 10/10
"Only when the drugs run out do i feel like dying" - spoken like someone who knows what it is to withdraw from opiates. I used to listen to this whilst getting high on codeine... wasn't that fun anymore when i was shooting fent every 15 minutes. Now I'm over 2 years clean and sober. To anyone struggling with addiction - we can recover. Don't give up
This song will forever be one of my favorites. I feel like so many pivotal moments in my life are married to waynes songs and albums. They all hit straight to my soul
This shit dropped when I was about 27, with a raging addiction to opiates, and Benzos, selling dope, in and out of jail, etc etc. This song literally came out around the same time as my "bottom" I used to sit and listen to song contemplating ending it all, cause I truly felt like dying. I ended up in rehab a couple days or weeks later, and never looked back, got into recovery, 12steps all of it, and my life is completely different cause of it today all these years later. But damn man. Listening to this shit again. I don't think I have listened to it once since then, but it's become popular on social media again, so I had to come hear the full version!! Stay blessed y'all
yo steve! i was 27 when this came out as well and while i consider myself alcoholic, opiates were always in the background. of course i did drugs the same way i drank, balls to the frickin wall fubar. i saw the light in 2013 and coming up on a decade sober - by the grace of god. cant tell you how many times i pulled over wishing this shot would be my last with wayne on my speakers. pink floyd also. but it's funny how hopelessness leads to desperation leads to The Gift. stay strong my fren
And what’s wild about it is when artists came out EVERYONE was on that artist for a month or two. Now you have album releases, first week sales and by that next Friday someone else is dropping
My feeling of when you live alone, no friends, the meds wore off and now all you have is your thoughts about how you have no one and money doesn't fill the void of an empty heart, forcing conversations because you can't relate to anyone, telling yourself it's fine you'll be okay but you wonder how can silence be so loud. Maybe tomorrow will be different only to wake up and hit repeat.
Facts I was a prisoner behind Xanax bars for a long ass time I just 4 months ago broke free of em. This the longest I been clean off em and ion even crave em no more. But u already know we still off that tree and shrooms mingling wit the stars and partying on mars 🤟🏼💯🔥
I'm thankful I heard this song at an age I had NO BUSINESS hearing it at. And I'm even more thankful I can listen to it almost 20 years later, appreciate and understand it, and still wait for tunes from Wayne. We blessed with the fact this man is still here, fellas.
Notice how Wayne never had his music taken down by RU-vid or something. He shared his music to the world. I hope he knows how grateful we all are for him.
I’ve never thought about this but we all know Wayne is a artist during his mixtape run he lived on a tour bus with a studio he pioneered putting a studio on the tour bus you never heard of that till Wayne
Haven't heard this song in years but it def hits different at age 33, after all the shit I've been through since this came out when I was like 19-20. So fucking raw, haunting, and ahead of its time.
@@indyfosho5458 I didn't mean the lyrics I meant the production....🙄 But thanks for being rude for no reason....Bc clearly the only element of music is lyrics lol smh
This song reminds me of how my mom must’ve felt with her addiction. RIP mama til we meet again ❤️ Edit: Wow, thank you all for the comments. I needed the love and support. Much love to everyone who came/comes across this post.
Its a nice message and all, but the reality is that addiction claims the lives of tens of thousands of young people every year. Many dont make it. Ive lost 8 friends since 2012 to suicides & overdoses. OD'd myself on Christmas of 2019 from a speedball of xanax, meth, h and fent. Thankfully i only seized for a minute or two and lost consciousness for 5 minutes, but bolted upright and started panicking thinking there were 6 cops in my living room, not knowing they were actually EMTs who had just arrived. STILL convinced myself I didn't have a "problem", for another 10 months afterwards, when I was finally forced to get treatment by my entire family. Been clean from narcotics since December 2020 and have no desire to ever do opiates again. It took alot of work to get here. And ALOT of time for my brain to restore itself back to where I could experience joy again without the use of opiates. Many dont make it. Its a grim reality. But thats why we have to take it upon ourselves to extend an arm out towards addicts currently going through their daily hellish struggle. Recovery is probably one of the few things in life that cannot be accomplished by a lone addict. No matter how mentally strong they are, the support is irreplaceable.
When I was 18 I used to listen to this on repeat while I went to school drunk every day, and came home every night fucked up on god knows what. I just came back in the first time in 6 years and cried listening to it, couldn't help it. To think I was resonating so heavily with someone who was going through so much pain as well, I'm just happy I can come back and have these thoughts and put it all into perspective. At the time I thought I understood Wayne because I felt the same way he did once the drugs were done, but now I realize he must have really been going thru it and pleading for help, and there I was using it to justify my actions, make myself more sad, rinse and repeat. This hits very different now and I'm glad I'm still here and doing better as well as Wayne
Man I bet so many people are thankful you’re still here. Those permanent solutions to temporary problems are so much easier than fighting them and I’m glad to hear you’re still here man keep pushing through life💪💯
This song comes into my mind every time after a night of heavy drinking. What a masterpiece this song is. Y'all stay up, these feelings will come to pass king.
@@21Sleepy16you have no clue. Detoxing off heavy hard liquor absue is dangerous and potentially lethal. Delirium Tremens are no joke. Opiate withdrawl wont even kill you
When Weezy was in his prime, he was the most hated hip hop artists in the world: "If 2pac was still alive, Wayne would flip burgers at McDonalds." Years later people mourn this version of Weezy, smh. People start appreciating things only when they're gone. Weezy was greatest rapper alive 2006-2013, he was untouchable I don't give a shit what anybody says.
Kevin Bostwick the mixtapes were hard to even keep track of back in the day. there were the Droughts, Lilweezyana, can’t even remember some others. But you just had to look for them on Limewire or Frostwire or whatever. And the names of the tracks didn’t always match up. Those are the ones that it seemed like a lot of people never heard but were amazing.
@@JP-wk7cc Man lilweezyana still bumps, drought 2 and 3, that other shit he did with drama. ohhhh wee all fire. yea man limewire or datpiff and rapgodfathers. those were the times
*DJ SCREW, BIG MOE, PIMP C, BIG HAWK, FAT PAT, Screwed Up Click do your research fam. HOUSTON birth the sound that was influenced by codeine which spread the epidemic.*
@daniel-Smokes-Kush TEXAS420 Well if people actually listened to Wayne, they'll know he gives credit to those guys all the time. He ended up coining it for the young ones
I've read through a lot of the comments and it helps to know that other people are also experiencing what I am and that I'm not alone. Even Lil Wayne knows. I just wish I could see some of you in person when I feel like dying so we can truly not be alone. Broken minds suck. Stay alive, we're not alone.
You're blessed to be alive. Stay positive with everything you do. Remember that there's always a brighter day. Hustle hard and keep your head up. Love.
@@healydowd8831 you’re truly lucky to be able to experience this song long after it came out. I remember being a teenager when this dropped. Wayne’s a legend.
I remember being like 12 or 13 having no experience with drugs thinking this song went hard. Now I’m 28 and in recovery from opiates and benzos and this song cuts so much deeper than it used to now.
This song is one of the most underrated Weezy songs. It is truly genius. It transports you into his mind and brings you on a trip...literally and figuratively. Wayne one of the best ever...
It’s not underrated, it wasn’t released. Y’all - we cannot become the new boomers 🤣 did you have this on a CD? Yes? You or a friend had limewire or whatever TF and it’s “underrated” because it only exists on RU-vid and in my memories haha I absolutely LOVE this song - don’t get me wrong. I felt crazy when I couldn’t find it anywhere - but best believe….it’s not “out there” like you thought it was.
this was THE song that woke me up to the fact that….damn, I’m an addict. Back in 2009. Took some stumbling but now I have 8 years clean. anyone FEELING this song right now…don’t lose hope 💜
I have never struggled with addiction but just know that the world doesn't always just view you as an addict. A lot of us admire you for being able to climb that mountain that is sobriety
i am an addict of marijuana and alcohol. those drugs are hard to kick. the other ones are harder, too. i need to make more money so i can do more drugs. but you get love for knowing what you want and going to get clean. you look really good and natural fresh new. blessings! getting off drugs is a hard decision and it takes some of the strongest souls in the universe of life to stop doing them. if you can, love~ if you cannot, love~
@@andrewlemay2491 keep listening. The greatest rapper of my generation and arguably the greatest rapper of all time. Listen to his early stuff. As they say, he was ahead of his time.
@@ericsade5961 im 34 Nd lil wayne was basically running rap in the mid 2000's he was like how kendrick is now but with endless content........ Still say he's had the best evolution as an artist of all time lil wayne has had like 5 diff rap careers in one
I was born in 98, and yet I still listened to this old wayne all the way through middle school and high school. If you got in my whip, this wayne was on. The fucking gooooaaatttttt
7th day of 2020 homie..... 1st time I heard this I was doing 6 yearz 4 armed robbery and my partner NXT cell over was playing this... He'd been doing almost 20years straight since he was 15 for a drive by that he smoked some 13's.... Dude was still a virgin. Never had pussy once but put it down for his set and was doing his bid like a Man
@@AMG-316 Danm! Free him 💔 n I first heard diz when I was n high school my Lil brother got me hip dis n ' President Carter ' is my all tyme favs from him
Daaaaaamn right!!! I can picture cruising at night, this song beating down w the bass, turned up. Fuuuuuukttttt upppppp just rollin' w the crew. Good times.
11 days clean off heroin. This song spoke to me. It was on my soulmates history. He listened to it 2 days before being locked up. Sorry I didn't realize my love...
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"And if I should ever fall, the ground would then turn to wine. POP POP" That subtle message about suicide and it's analogy to the substance abuse mentioned in the song is so deep. Wayne's a legend.
When I was little I used to listen to this song with my dad all the time and thought it was the best song ever, fast forward 13-15 years I ended up having a serious pill and drug addiction that luckily I survived and can say I’ve been sober for awhile now. And coming back to this song and listening to it all over again i can’t find the words to describe how it makes me feel. Anybody who suffers from addiction it’s not too late and people still love you and I hope one day soon you love yourself ❤️
First heard this when I was 17 and just out of high school. One of the hardest songs I’d heard of by Lil Wayne at that point. I still bump it from time to time now and it hits me more profoundly now than it did back then. It’s easier to relate to now after so many years. Which feels kind of sad to say. First heard it at 17 and I’m now 33.
This is me 100% … i asked my cousin where he got it as we were blunt ridin and then went home and got a datpiff account. remember thinking C3 was gonna have songs like this and “I’m Me” and “Love me and Hate me” and “Something You Forgot” and all those leaked songs?😭
I just opened up a portal to the past just by listening to this song. Thank you Lil Wayne for using your music to help many of us go through what we went through.
