...it's a new day... ya know I'm sayin'?
A new day, brings a new problem to a 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 mother a man of me Didn't 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 to be the school dummy And flunked outta school the flag pole And left my dear at home with a sad soul Because my mother the fingers to the bone Cause we was alone, and me I bought a death My real he broke out with the style So I my stepdad, for raisin' another nigga's child So now we comftable Taught me the and how to be responsible But back I couldn't see it I wanted to be a man at fourteen so the kid's leavin' And up in a big fight And told me not to come home until I got my right So now I'm livin' in my grandma's My grandma's strong, got nine kids of her own And keepin' me no big deal But now that I'm older I see just how the shit feels Being kind-hearted, not wantin' to 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 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 all hope, a brother's fallin' short I can't cope, so now I'm slangin' And now my knows I'm doin' wrong She just for me heavily Take care of her And the lord of heard her prayer Cause he made me get a And got me on up outta I heard my 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 just had my first son May eleven, I never will the day A born, let's name him little scarface My first born and yo I'm a proud 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 keep my 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 not the tonka toys Because the tonka toys will only my boy And I don't want my son to look at 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, like my momma did So when he to be a man he'll appreciate The game I gave him way back he used to roller skate And now my son is years old I really gots ta give the and try to play the father's role these years he'll remember most So it's all about little marcus and me becomin' But I got a obstacles If it ain't my of work it's the girlies on my popsicle Now everybody's got my Wantin' to have their hands in my pocket tryin to me crazy "it's daughter, don't she look like you? " I just can't tell, why you take it to ma momma do Because my mother knows the real All these hoochies poppin' coochie tryin' to get a 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, she was just fakin' g Come to find out, the never had me She's the baby's mother but me I ain't the daddy And biological can prove You gotta get up off of me and go after the dude But now I finally got a real No for the testin' I know that I'm the baby's I heard my daddy say hoes will try ta kill ya You couldn't have told me nothin' then But now I ya...
I ya...
Now I'm twenty-two and finally got a grip on nineteen ninety-three, I put away my pocket knife And got a bigger to fight with I'm young and black so my choice a nightstick Because we livin' in a set And everyday, we face to with death I seen my homies go and And judgement day is somethin we can't run from So I know my comin' up So I protect myself from suckers who be runnin' up And even though I hate off my own kind I be a man and as a man I'm a defend mine My brother corners tryin to keep the at peace Don't fight each other, we gots ta and fight the beast So united we stand but we gonna fall Because we always tryin to take another shit And the cops is in the vote Just because we comin' up quick they think we dope shootin' ta kill, they gas ain't sparkin' goods They shot my long time partner in cold blood And now the story's all up And if gave the cop the chair I really wouldn't give a she left my partner's family with memories And after hearin' I know you don't remember me But yet in still I find it for me to stay in touch I see his parents and then I started up Because I what you did was wrong But you won't realize until you dead and 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 him back You give a gat to a black he don't how to act But you gotta tell story to the judge Not the imitation judge, the judge that loves And if the man upstairs you forgiveness Then in you took care of your business But regardless I know you kill me But I goin' out like dat Ya me?
...yeah