True Story - Akira the Don, Theo Von

And, man, it has been a journey

The drugs and alcohol have been whatever

Uh, I don’t know if I’ll always be sober I have no idea

But the thing that keeps me involved is

I get to learn so much about myself about loving others about acceptance

It’s introduced me to other issues that I have that

You know, maybe drugs and alcohol aren’t even my issue

It’s just introduced me into a world of, like, introspection

Like, for the first time, I can take a look at myself and I still Look,

I got a ton of faults, I’m not

But I know that if I stay, like, on this path that things can get better I

believe that 'cause there’s proof for me

You know, my career has gotten better

You know, I’ve met people that have loved me

You know, I’ve been in and out or a relationship with somebody that loved me

For one of the first times in my life that I really felt that

Not that other people hadn’t loved me in the past but this was the first time I

could feel it

You know, and it’s just because something had changed Inside of me, you know,

where I didn’t need to just have all the walls up or whatever to survive

anymore, like

You know, I think my higher power wants to tell me, «Look, man, you’re gonna be

okay, you know, you can take a break»

You know

Anyway, you know, I don’t know if I’ll always be

A part of this program or not

But, you know

For the first time in my life I can tell you a true story

Like, this story, like, that’s a true story

You know, for the first time in my life I can tell you a true story

Like this story, like that’s a true story

(True story, true story)

(True story, true story)

You know, all the years of, like, having to lie and, like, being ashamed of who

I was or what I was or anything or anything like that

It’s still okay to tell stories

It’s okay to create and be wanna bring people together and

And be a storyteller and think about things and that’s all okay, but,

for the first time my life I have a little bit of a story of my own

You know, and there are moments

You know, not always but there’s moments where I don’t feel as ashamed of

myself as I did for so long, man

You know, I was so ashamed I was so ashamed of myself for nothing

Really for nothing

Just because at a young age nobody had told me not to be ashamed of myself

You know, nobody had told me, «Hey, man, you’re okay»

You know, nobody had told me, «Hey, man, you are okay and you’re not a bad

person»

You’re not a bad person

Because, for so much of my life I wanted to know that about myself and now I’d

go into these rooms and I hear other people’s stories and, and I feel a certain

way and there is proof right there

Inside of me, living inside of my body through feeling and through love

And that’s dope, man

Shit is fucking dope

For the first time in my life I can tell you a true story

Like, this story, like, that’s a true story

You know, for the first time in my life I can tell you a true story

Like this story, like that’s a true story

(True story, true story)

(True story, true story)