...it's a new day... ya what I'm sayin'?
A new day, brings a new to a brother And all I ta say is thank God for my mother Cause my mommy dear my life would've been joke Either locked up playin' dead and still slangin' but nope The lord he had a 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 dividends So when I graduated I'd have a little school But in the sixth I wanted to be the school dummy And flunked outta with the flag pole And left my mother at home with a sad soul Because my mother worked the to the bone Cause we was alone, and me I bought a home My pops he broke out with 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 wanted to be a grown man at 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 home My strong, she's got nine kids of her own And me ain't no big deal But now that I'm much I see just how the shit feels Being kind-hearted, not wantin' to me no Even though my grandfather just had a And now the low And pretty soon a gonna have ta go Or either try to 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 family can have a better to stay I'm losin' all hope, a fallin' short I can't cope, so now I'm dope And now my granny knows I'm doin' She prayin' for me heavily care of her grandson And the must of heard her prayer Cause he made me get a And got me on up outta I heard my mother say them 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 just had my son May eleven, I never will the day A star's born, name him little scarface My first born and yo I'm a father I gotta son, I gots ta be my son's And sellin dope the way that I can get ahead But what the hell, I gots ta 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 jewellry not the tonka the tonka toys will only punk my boy And I don't my son to look at life a replica 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 my momma did So when he gets to be a man he'll The game I gave him way back he used to roller skate And now my son is four old I really gots ta give the real and try to play the father's Because these he'll remember most So it's all about little marcus and me close But I got a buncha If it ain't my of work it's the girlies on my popsicle Now got my baby Wantin' to have their in my pocket tryin to drive 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 Because my mother knows the real All hoochies poppin' coochie tryin' to get a free meal So now we in and outta Tryin' to get mo money, braggin' om the support Tellin' her friends that she's me Now eveybody knows, she was just fakin' g to find out, the girl never had me She's the baby's mother but me I ain't the daddy And biological tests can You get up off of me and go after the other dude But now I got a real daughter No for the testin' I that I'm the baby's father I heard my daddy say them hoes 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 knife And got a bigger to fight with I'm young and so my choice ain't a nightstick Because we in a concentration set And everyday, we to face with death I my homies go and come And judgement day is just somethin we run from So I know my number's up So I gotta protect from suckers who be runnin' up And even though I hate off my own kind I gotta be a man and as a man I'm a defend My brother tryin to keep the neighbourhood at peace Don't fight each other, we gots ta stand and the beast So united we stand but we fall quick Because we always tryin to take another brother's And the cops is in the vote Just because we comin' up quick they think we slang They shootin' ta kill, they gas sparkin' goods They shot my time partner rudy in cold blood And now the all twisted up And if they gave the cop the I really wouldn't give a Because she left my partner's 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 I know what you did was wrong But you realize until you dead and gone It ain't no justifiable homicide, you never a warning You up shot him from behind But all the cryin' in the ain't gonna bring him back You give a gat to a he don't know how to act But you gotta your story to the judge Not the imitation judge, the judge that loves And if the man upstairs grants you in reality you took care of your business But I know you wanna kill me But I ain't goin' out dat Ya me?
...yeah