...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 God for my mother Cause without my mommy my life would've been joke locked up playin' dead 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 blindfold me to the world we was in Taught me how to save my little So I graduated I'd have a little school money But in the sixth I wanted to be the school dummy And flunked outta with the flag pole And left my dear at home with a sad soul my mother worked the fingers to the bone Cause we was alone, and me I bought a death My real pops he out with the style So I respect my stepdad, for another nigga's child So now we livin' me the game and how to be responsible But back I couldn't 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 until I got my shit So now I'm livin' in my home My grandma's strong, she's got nine of her own And me ain't 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 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 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 brother's short I can't cope, so now I'm slangin' And now my granny knows I'm doin' She just prayin' for me care of her grandson And the must of heard her prayer Cause he me get a grip And got me on up outta I heard my mother say them 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 star's born, let's name him scarface My born and yo I'm a proud father I gotta son, I gots ta be my father And sellin dope ain't the way I can get ahead But what the hell, I gots ta my baby fed I buy him milk, and pampers tryin ta do my And he's my son, I ta try to make him hard I buy him clothes, and jewellry not the toys the tonka toys will only punk my boy And I want my son to look at life Through a replica of reality tryin' to make it But yet and I let my son be a kid Just give him up the real, exactly my momma did So he gets to be a man he'll appreciate The game I gave him way back when he to roller skate And now my son is four old I really ta give the real and try to play the father's role Because years he'll remember most So it's all about marcus and me becomin' close But I got a buncha If it ain't my line of work it's the girlies on my Now everybody's got my Wantin' to have hands in my pocket tryin to drive me crazy "it's your daughter, don't she like you? " I just can't tell, why don't you it to ma momma do Because my mother the real deal All these hoochies poppin' coochie to get a free meal So now we in and cope Tryin' to get mo money, braggin' om the child Tellin' her friends that breakin' me Now eveybody knows, that she was just 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 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 that I'm the baby's father I heard my daddy say hoes will try ta kill ya You couldn't told me nothin' back then But now I ya...
I ya...
Now I'm twenty-two and got a grip on life It's ninety-three, I put away my pocket knife And got a bigger stick to fight I'm and black 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 somethin we can't run from So I know my number's up So I gotta protect 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 defend My brother corners tryin to keep the at peace Don't fight each other, we gots ta stand and fight the So united we stand but we fall quick we always tryin to take another brother's shit 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' They shot my long time partner in cold blood And now the all twisted up And if they gave the cop the I wouldn't give a fuck Because she left my partner's family with And after hearin' this I know you remember me But yet in still I find it for me to stay in touch I see his and then I started breakin' up Because I know you did was wrong But you won't realize you dead and gone It no justifiable homicide, you never gave a warning You straight up him from behind But all the cryin' in the world gonna bring him back You a gat to a black he don't know how to act But you gotta tell story to the judge Not the imitation judge, the judge that loves And if the man grants you forgiveness Then in reality you care of your business But regardless I know you wanna me But I goin' out like dat Ya me?
...yeah