...it's a new day... ya know I'm sayin'?
A new day, brings a new problem to a And all I gots ta say is thank God for my Cause without my dear my life would've been joke Either locked up dead and still slangin' dope but nope The he had a plan for me And his help, my mother made a man of me Didn't blindfold me to the world we was in Taught me how to save my dividends So I graduated I'd have a little school money But in the sixth grade I wanted to be the dummy And flunked outta school the flag pole And left my mother 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 broke out the style So I respect my stepdad, for another nigga's child So now we comftable Taught me the and how to be responsible But back then I 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 in my grandma's home My grandma's strong, she's got nine of her own And keepin' me 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 brother's have ta go Or either try to a job so I can help out I'm in the ghetto, I ta get myself 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 brother's fallin' I cope, so now I'm slangin' dope And now my granny knows I'm doin' She just prayin' for me care of her grandson And the lord must of her prayer Cause he made me get a And got me on up outta I heard my mother say streets is gonna kill ya You couldn't have told me nothin' back 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 will the day A star's born, let's name him little My first born and yo I'm a proud I gotta son, I gots ta be my 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 ta try to make him hard I buy him clothes, and jewellry not the tonka Because the tonka toys will only my boy And I don't want my son to look at Through a replica of reality tryin' to it life-like But yet and I let my son be a kid Just him up the real, exactly like my momma did So when he gets to be a man he'll The I gave him way back when he used to roller skate And now my son is years 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 little and me becomin' close But I got a buncha If it ain't my line of it's the girlies on my popsicle Now got my baby Wantin' to have their hands in my tryin to drive me crazy "it's your daughter, don't she look like " I just can't tell, why don't you take it to ma do Because my knows the real deal All hoochies poppin' coochie tryin' to get a free meal So now we in and outta Tryin' to get mo money, braggin' om the child Tellin' her friends that she's 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 gotta get up off of me and go the other dude But now I finally got a real No need for the I know 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 finally got a grip on It's ninety-three, I put away my pocket knife And got a bigger to fight with I'm and black so my choice ain't a nightstick Because we livin' in a set And everyday, we face to face death I seen my go and come And day is just somethin we can't run from So I know my comin' up So I gotta protect from suckers who be runnin' up And even though I hate killin' off my own I be a man and as a man I'm a defend mine My brother tryin to keep the neighbourhood at peace fight each other, we gots ta stand and fight the beast So united we stand but we fall quick Because we always tryin to take another shit And the is in the same vote because we comin' up quick they think we slang dope They ta kill, they gas ain't sparkin' goods They shot my long time rudy in cold blood And now the all twisted up And if gave the cop the chair I really give a fuck Because she my partner's family with memories And after hearin' this I you don't remember me But yet in still I find it hard for me to in touch I see his parents and then I breakin' up Because I know you did was wrong But you won't realize until you dead and It no justifiable homicide, you never gave a warning You up shot him from behind But all the in the world ain't gonna bring him back You give a gat to a black he know how to act But you tell your story to the judge Not the imitation judge, the that everybody loves And if the man upstairs grants you Then in reality you care of your business But I know you wanna kill me But I ain't goin' out dat Ya me?
...yeah