...it's a new day... ya what I'm sayin'?
A new day, brings a new problem to a And all I gots ta say is thank God for my Cause my mommy dear my life would've been joke Either locked up dead and still slangin' dope 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 we was livin' in Taught me how to save my little So when I I'd have a little school money But in the sixth grade I wanted to be the school And flunked outta school the flag pole And my mother dear at home with 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 another nigga's child So now we livin' Taught me the game and how to be But then I couldn't see it I to be a grown man at fourteen so the kid's leavin' And up in a big fight And me not to come home until I got my shit right So now I'm livin' in my home My grandma's strong, got nine kids of her own And keepin' me 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 brother's 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 have a place to stay I'm losin' all hope, a brother's fallin' I can't cope, so now I'm slangin' And now my granny I'm doin' wrong She prayin' for me heavily Take care of her And the lord must of heard her 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 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, let's name him scarface My first born and yo I'm a father 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 he's my son, I gots ta try to him hard I buy him clothes, and not the tonka toys Because the tonka toys will punk my boy And I don't want my son to at life Through a replica of tryin' to make it life-like But yet and I let my son be a kid Just give him up the real, exactly like my did So when he to be a man he'll appreciate The game I him way back when he used to roller skate And now my son is years old I gots ta give the real and try to play the father's role these years he'll remember most So it's all about little 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 Wantin' to have their hands in my pocket 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 deal All these poppin' coochie tryin' to get a free meal So now we in and outta Tryin' to get mo money, braggin' om the child her friends that she's breakin' me Now eveybody knows, that she was just g Come to find out, the never had me She's the baby's mother but me I the baby's daddy And biological can prove 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 will try ta ya You couldn't have told me nothin' then But now I ya...
I ya...
Now I'm twenty-two and finally got a on life It's nineteen ninety-three, I put my pocket knife And got a bigger stick to with I'm young and black so my ain't a nightstick Because we livin' in a set And everyday, we face to face with I seen my homies go and And judgement day is just somethin we run from So I know my number's up So I gotta protect myself from 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 corners tryin to keep the neighbourhood at Don't fight each other, we gots ta stand and fight the So we stand but we gonna fall quick Because we always tryin to take brother's shit And the cops is in the vote Just because we comin' up quick they we slang dope They shootin' ta kill, gas ain't sparkin' goods shot my long time partner rudy in cold blood And now the story's all up And if they gave the cop the I really wouldn't a fuck Because she left my partner's family memories And after hearin' this I know you don't me But yet in still I find it hard for me to stay in I see his parents and then I breakin' up I know what you did was wrong But you won't realize until you dead and 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 gonna bring him You a gat to a black he don't know how to act But you tell your 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 ain't goin' out dat Ya me?
...yeah