...it's a new day... ya what I'm sayin'?
A new day, a new problem to a brother And all I gots ta say is thank God for my Cause my mommy dear my life would've been joke Either locked up playin' and still slangin' dope but nope The he had a plan for me And with his help, my mother a man of me Didn't me to the world we was livin' in Taught me how to my little dividends So when I I'd have a little school money But in the sixth grade I to be the school dummy And flunked outta school the flag pole And my mother dear at home with a sad soul Because my worked the fingers to the bone Cause we was alone, and me I bought a death My real pops he broke out the style So I respect my stepdad, for another nigga's child So now we comftable me the game and how to be responsible But back then I see it I to be a grown man at fourteen so the kid's leavin' And ended up in a big And told me not to come home I got my shit right So now I'm in my grandma's home My strong, she's got nine kids of her own And keepin' me no big deal But now that I'm much older I see just how the shit kind-hearted, not wantin' to tell me no Even though my grandfather just had a And now the low And pretty soon a brother's have ta go Or either try to find a job so I can out I'm in the ghetto, I ta get myself out And when I get out I try to pave the way So my family can have a place to stay I'm losin' all hope, a fallin' short I cope, so now I'm slangin' dope And now my granny knows I'm wrong She just for me heavily Take of her grandson And the must of heard her prayer he made me get a grip And got me on up outta I heard my say them streets is gonna kill ya You couldn't told me nothin' back then But now I ya...
I'm eighteen, and now I'm big fun My baby's mother had my first son May eleven, I never forget the day A star's born, let's name him scarface My first born and yo I'm a father I gotta son, I gots ta be my father And sellin ain't the way that I can get ahead But the hell, I gots ta keep my baby fed I buy him milk, and tryin ta do my part And he's my son, I gots ta try to him hard I buy him clothes, and not the tonka toys Because the tonka will only punk my boy And I don't want my son to at life Through a of reality tryin' to make it life-like But yet and I let my son be a kid Just give him up the real, exactly like my did So he gets to be a man he'll appreciate The game I gave him way when he used to roller skate And now my son is years old I gots ta give the real and try to play the father's role Because these he'll remember most So all about little marcus and me becomin' close But I got a obstacles If it my line of work it's the girlies on my popsicle Now everybody's got my Wantin' to have their hands in my pocket to drive me crazy "it's your daughter, don't she look you? " I just tell, why don't you take it to ma momma do Because my mother knows the real All these hoochies poppin' coochie tryin' to get a free So now we in and outta to get mo money, braggin' om the child support Tellin' her friends that breakin' me Now eveybody knows, that she was fakin' g Come to find out, the girl had me She's the mother but me I ain't the baby's daddy And biological tests can You get up off of me and go after the other dude But now I finally got a real No need for the I know that I'm the baby's I heard my daddy say hoes will try ta kill ya You couldn't have me nothin' back then But now I ya...
I ya...
Now I'm and finally got a grip on life It's nineteen ninety-three, I put away my pocket And got a bigger to fight with I'm young and black so my choice a nightstick we livin' in a concentration set And everyday, we face to face death I my homies go and come And judgement day is just somethin we can't run So I know my number's up So I gotta protect myself from suckers who be up And even though I killin' off my own kind I gotta be a man and as a man I'm a defend My brother corners tryin to keep the at peace Don't each other, we gots ta stand and fight the beast So united we stand but we gonna quick Because we always tryin to take brother's shit And the cops is in the same Just because we comin' up quick think we slang dope They shootin' ta kill, gas ain't sparkin' goods They shot my long time partner rudy in cold And now the all twisted up And if they gave the cop the I wouldn't give a fuck Because she my partner's family with memories And after hearin' this I know you don't me But yet in still I find it hard for me to in touch I see his parents and then I breakin' up Because I know you did was wrong But you won't realize until you and gone It ain't no justifiable homicide, you never gave a You straight up him from behind But all the cryin' in the world gonna bring him back You give a gat to a black he don't how to act But you gotta tell your story to the Not the imitation judge, the judge that everybody And if the man grants you forgiveness Then in reality you care of your business But regardless I know you wanna me But I ain't goin' out dat Ya me?
...yeah