Thats like half my hand.

"My uncle said when you grow up some of your friends will be dead" - Black Spade

Childhood friends...I have a few. Not many...but enough to know as you grow up you change(thats obvious). What hit me though was that as you grow your friends change as well. Some change for the better...and others for the worse. Most are for worse...sad to say that most of my friends aren't doing much with their life. I've grown up enough and I guess in a way my friends are dead.

"A thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up" - Nas

Word up. A thug changes. Love definitely changes. Friends become strangers...yeah. I have more than a few friends that have become strangers. Niggas act like they don't even know ya' boy anymore, but its all good. I don't adapt well to change but change happens. Whether its friends, love, or your own personal change. I've never tried to stop it...because you really can't.

I've watched some of my people go from good kids to drug dealers. Dudes changed so much every time I'm with them something pops off. I guess it hurts me in a way to see my niggas that I'm down for get trapped in the system. I don't really blame the change of growing up for this. I'd rather blame the streets. The hood made my niggas like this...and made me the way I am today.

I'm only 16 so I got some more growing to do. But if your 16 and you can say your friends have died in any type of way thats not whats up. I guess my uncle was right. For my people that have become strangers I still know you...you just don't know me.