...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 God for my mother Cause without my mommy my life would've been joke Either locked up 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 we was livin' in me how to save my little dividends So when I graduated I'd have a little money But in the sixth grade I wanted to be the school And flunked outta with the flag pole And left my 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 raisin' another 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 fourteen so the 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 grandma's strong, got nine kids of her own And keepin' me ain't no big But now that I'm much I see just how the shit feels Being kind-hearted, not to tell me no Even my grandfather just had a stroke And now the low And soon a brother's gonna have ta go Or either try to a job so I can help 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 a better place to stay I'm losin' all hope, a 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 care of her And the lord must of heard her Cause he me get a grip And got me on up outta I heard my mother say them streets is gonna ya You have 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 proud I gotta son, I gots ta be my son's And sellin ain't 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 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 don't 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 used to skate And now my son is four old I gots ta give the real and try to play the father's role Because years he'll remember most So it's all little marcus and me becomin' close But I got a obstacles If it ain't my line of work it's the on my popsicle Now everybody's got my to have their hands in my pocket tryin to drive me crazy "it's your daughter, don't she look like " I just tell, why don't you take it to ma momma do Because my mother the real deal All these poppin' coochie tryin' to get a free meal So now we in and cope Tryin' to get mo money, braggin' om the child her friends that she's breakin' me Now eveybody knows, that she was fakin' g Come to find out, the never had me She's the baby's mother but me I the baby's daddy And tests 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 told me nothin' back then But now I ya...
I ya...
Now I'm and finally got a grip on life It's ninety-three, I put away my pocket knife And got a stick to fight with I'm young and black so my choice ain't a Because we livin' in a set And everyday, we to face with death I seen my homies go and And judgement day is just we can't run from So I know my number's up So I gotta protect from suckers who be runnin' up And though I hate killin' off my own kind I gotta be a man and as a man I'm a mine 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 to take another brother's shit And the is in the same vote Just because we comin' up 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 story's all up And if they the cop the chair I really wouldn't a fuck Because she left my partner's family with And hearin' this I know you don't remember me But yet in still I find it hard for me to stay in I see his parents and I started breakin' up Because I know what you did was But you realize until you dead and gone It ain't no homicide, you never gave a warning You straight up shot him behind But all the in the world ain't gonna bring him back You give a gat to a black he don't how to act But you gotta tell your to the judge Not the imitation judge, the judge that loves And if the man grants you forgiveness Then in reality you took care of your But regardless I you wanna kill me But I ain't out like dat Ya me?
...yeah