...it's a new day... ya know I'm sayin'?
A new day, a new problem to a brother And all I gots ta say is thank God for my Cause without my mommy dear my life would've joke 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 blindfold me to the world we was livin' in Taught me how to my little dividends So when I graduated I'd have a little school But in the sixth grade I wanted to be the dummy And flunked outta with the flag pole And left my mother dear at home a sad soul Because my mother worked the to the bone Cause we was alone, and me I bought a home My real pops he out with the style So I respect my stepdad, for raisin' another nigga's So now we livin' Taught me the and how to be responsible But back then I see it I wanted to be a grown man at fourteen so the leavin' And ended up in a big And me not to come home until I got my shit right So now I'm in my grandma's home My grandma's strong, she's got nine of her own And keepin' me ain't no big But now that I'm much older I see just how the shit Being kind-hearted, not to tell me no Even though my just had a stroke And now the low And pretty soon a gonna have ta go Or either try to find a job so I can out I'm in the ghetto, I gots ta get out And I get out I gotta try to pave the way So my family can have a better place to I'm losin' all hope, a fallin' short I can't cope, so now I'm dope And now my granny I'm doin' wrong She just for me heavily care of her grandson And the lord of heard her prayer Cause he me get a grip And got me on up there I heard my mother say them streets is gonna ya You couldn't have told me back then But now I ya...
I'm eighteen, and now I'm big fun My baby's just had my first son May eleven, I never will the day A star's born, let's him little scarface My first and yo I'm a proud father I gotta son, I gots ta be my son's And dope 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 my son, I gots ta try to make him hard I buy him clothes, and jewellry not the toys Because the tonka will only punk my boy And I want my son to look 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, like my momma did So when he gets to be a man appreciate The game I gave him way when he used to roller skate And now my son is four old I really gots ta give the real and try to the father's role these years he'll remember most So all about little marcus and me becomin' close But I got a buncha If it my line of work it's the girlies on my popsicle Now got my baby Wantin' to have their hands in my pocket to drive me crazy "it's your daughter, don't she like you? " I can't tell, why don't you take it to ma momma do Because my mother knows the real All these poppin' coochie tryin' to get a free meal So now we in and cope to get mo money, braggin' om the child support Tellin' her friends she's breakin' me Now eveybody knows, she was just fakin' g Come to out, the girl never had me the baby's mother but me I ain't the baby's daddy And biological can prove You get up off of me and go after 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 hoes will try ta kill ya You couldn't have me nothin' back then But now I ya...
I ya...
Now I'm twenty-two and got a grip on life It's nineteen ninety-three, I put my pocket knife And got a bigger to fight with I'm young and black so my choice ain't a we livin' in a concentration set And everyday, we face to face with I seen my go and come 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 though I 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 each other, we gots ta stand and the beast So united we but we gonna fall quick Because we always tryin to take another brother's And the cops is in the vote Just we comin' up quick they think we slang dope They shootin' ta kill, they gas ain't sparkin' shot my long time partner rudy in cold blood And now the story's all up And if gave the cop the chair I really wouldn't a fuck Because she left my family with memories And after hearin' this I know you don't me But yet in I find it hard for me to stay in touch I see his parents and I started 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 shot him behind But all the cryin' in the world ain't gonna bring him You give a gat to a black he know how to act But you gotta your story to the judge Not the judge, the judge that everybody loves And if the man upstairs grants you Then in reality you took of your business But regardless I you wanna kill me But I ain't goin' out dat Ya me?
...yeah