...it's a new day... ya know what I'm
A new day, a new problem to a brother And all I gots ta say is God for my mother Cause without my mommy dear my life would've been Either locked up dead and still slangin' dope but nope The he had a plan for me And with his help, my made a man of me Didn't blindfold me to the world we was in Taught me how to save my little So when I graduated I'd have a school money But in the sixth grade I wanted to be the dummy And flunked outta school with the pole And left my mother dear at home a sad soul Because my worked the fingers to the bone we was alone, and me I bought a death home My real pops he out with the style So I respect my stepdad, for raisin' another child So now we livin' Taught me the game and how to be But back I couldn't see it I wanted to be a 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 livin' in my grandma's My grandma's strong, got nine kids of her own And keepin' me ain't no big 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 gonna have ta go Or try to find a job so I can help out I'm in the ghetto, I ta get myself out And when I get out I try to pave the way So my can have a better place to stay I'm all hope, a brother's fallin' short I can't cope, so now I'm slangin' And now my granny knows I'm wrong She just prayin' for me Take of her grandson And the lord must of her prayer he made me get a grip And got me on up there I my mother say them streets is gonna kill ya You couldn't have told me back then But now I ya...
I'm eighteen, and now I'm big fun My mother just had my first son May eleven, I will forget the day A born, let's name him little scarface My first born and yo I'm a proud I gotta son, I ta be my son's father And sellin ain't the way that I can get ahead But what the hell, I gots ta keep my fed I buy him milk, and tryin ta do my part And my son, I gots ta try to make him hard I buy him clothes, and jewellry not the toys Because the toys will only punk my boy And I don't want my son to at life Through a replica of reality tryin' to it life-like But yet and I let my son be a kid Just give him up the real, exactly my momma did So when he gets to be a man he'll The game I gave him way when he used to roller skate And now my son is years old I really gots ta give the and try to play the father's role Because years he'll remember most So it's all about little marcus and me becomin' But I got a obstacles If it ain't my line of it's the girlies on my popsicle Now got my baby Wantin' to have their hands in my pocket tryin to me crazy "it's daughter, don't she look like you? " I just can't tell, why don't you it to ma momma do my mother knows the real deal All these hoochies coochie tryin' to get a free meal So now we in and cope Tryin' to get mo money, braggin' om the support her friends that she's breakin' me Now knows, that she was just fakin' g Come to out, the girl never had me She's the baby's but me I ain't the baby's daddy And biological can prove You gotta get up off of me and go the other dude But now I finally got a real No for the testin' I know that I'm the father I heard my daddy say them hoes try ta kill ya You couldn't have me nothin' back then But now I ya...
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Now I'm twenty-two and finally got a grip on nineteen ninety-three, I put away my pocket knife And got a stick to fight with I'm young and so my choice ain't a nightstick Because we livin' in a set And everyday, we face to face death I seen my homies go and And judgement day is just somethin we run from So I my number's comin' up So I protect myself from suckers who be runnin' up And even I hate killin' off my own kind I gotta be a man and as a man I'm a mine My brother tryin to keep the neighbourhood at peace Don't fight other, we gots ta stand and fight the beast So united we stand but we gonna quick Because we always tryin to take another brother's And the is in the same vote because we comin' up quick they think we slang dope They shootin' ta kill, gas ain't sparkin' goods They shot my long time partner in cold blood And now the all twisted up And if gave the cop the chair I really 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 it hard for me to stay in touch I see his parents and then I started up Because I know you did was wrong But you won't until you dead and gone It ain't no justifiable homicide, you gave a warning You up shot him from behind But all the cryin' in the world ain't bring him back You a gat to a black he don't know how to act But you gotta tell your to the judge Not the imitation judge, the judge that everybody And if the man upstairs you forgiveness Then in reality you care of your business But regardless I know you wanna me But I ain't out like dat Ya me?
...yeah