To the people with me from day 1, and to those ain't here no more. The Realest and the True, The Bastard (you know who you are) and the Cool, The Lovely ladies and the Bitches, The people who from day 1 bounced with the twinz till DMX, this ones for you.. The New and the old, The people from Down South of A.A.. The true D7 1780.. I'm doin this one here for Sieg, Bri,Vic, Coy, Keen, Prim, Jp, Javi, Ian, Jec, JM, Niko, Romeo, Albert, Tik, Don, Marts, A's, Sean, JMAO, Eddie, Zaldy, Jojo, Mike, PG, Elvis, Chino, Olav, Dexter, Dom and to all those people up in Southbay.. and to all those people i forgot.. Peace! this one's for all' y'all. All the peoples I met along the way Better days is comin homeboys, keep your head up.

(exerpt's from 2Pac's Song Better Days)

Time to question our lifestyle,
look how we live
Smokin weed like it ain't no thang,
so even kids
wanna try now, they lie down and get ran through
Nobody watched 'em clockin the evil man do
Faced with the demons, addicted to hearin victims screamin
we wasn't evil since birth, ain't no product of cursed semens
Cause sometimes even our birthdays is cursed days
Ain't born thug in the first place, but sometimes we got the worst ways
I'd love to see the block in peace
With no more dealers and crooked cops, the only way to stop the beast
And only we can change
It's up to us to clean up the streets, it ain't the same
We got no murders, no funerals but we got tears
What could I say?
Keep yo' head up and try to keep the faith
And pray for better days..

Thinkin back as an adolescent, who would've guessed
that in my future years, I'd be stressin
Some say the world's sick and corrupted
Plus my Parent's won't let me hang with the brothers I grew up with
Tryin to keep my head up and stay strong
All my homies ballin' all day long, but that shit ain't wrong
So I'm solo and so broke
Savin up for some Jordan's, cause they dope
I got a girl and I love her but she broke too,
and so am I, I can't take her to the place she wanna go to
So we argue and play fight, all day and night
Makin passionate love 'til the daylight
About to get expelled, will you be with me till the end?
Guess it's time to see who really is yo' friend
Tell him you pregnant and I'm amazed
So many blessings while we stressin
Lookin for them better days

Now me and you was real cool, hell on them square fools
Since back in high school, we was true, me and you
Hardly parted or seperated, we stayed faded
Affiliated with gangbangers and still made it
Up in the gym, mess with me, gotta mess with him
Still dressin like grown men when rollin
I went to dark, smokin Winstons, gamin marks
Got a place in my heart, homey stay smart
Locked you up in the rehab, and gave you three to six
I send you letters with naked flicks of old friends
Hopin you well, I know it's hell
Doin time in the cells, you need mail, when you like in jail
And me I'm doin cool
My Bro's about to settle down, have a family, workin till late night in school
Every once in a while, I reminisce
And wonder how we ever came to this
I miss the better days... got me thinkin bout better days..