Lotta niggas enter the halfway home thinking they’s on the pretend about following the straight and narrow. But things you pretend are true have a way of coming true, so Steel let that lie lie.
Or he let it lay. He done lain it to lie. Whatever, Steel don’t call Tyrell out on coming home stoned, but he did call him out on slinging. He did it supportive-like, but Tyrell don’t take it nice, so come-to-me-bro turned to come-at-me-brah, and he and him switched from brothers in Christ to niggas in crisis. Tyrell be flipping hot. Steel wanna brawl-a-boom hard, but he kept it cool, calm and collected. He kept Tyrell talking about quitting. Even if it was a lie, it was a step on the road to real quitting.