This right here for my Oodles o' Noodles babies His ma' smoked the crack while she was pregnant so he can't help that he crazy He to jail, it's inevitable, forreal
1] I ain't nobody to give me no hope I hope my momma ain't doin' no I used to wish my daddy was livin' I had a dream that I seen him as I used to act up when I to school it was cool, but I really was hurt Wanted my to come to my games My mama couldn't make it 'cause she was at with my grandma, she took me to church Really no I wanna go I kissed my aunt in the casket And her was cold I was 4 years old We couldn't no clothes It was hand me Who would think a nigga get a Grammy Got a judge tryna tear me down All this time probably wear me down Turn the lights off in the Screaming, "Bloody, Bloody, Mary" now nightmares about Candyman With the on me like a handyman my lil' cousin, I'm like, "Damn it, man" Had to see the on a camera, man On the pavement, his brains out the white sheet, he was laid out Wanna ask 'Ye, "Is a choice?" It was like this I came out What the fuck is you really complaining I know niggas that's never gon' it out This that shit you see in the media Poor get poorer and the rich greedier Lot of daddies back and forth out of jail Lot of growin' up and repeating them This the of the beast, you won't make it out Man, this shit was designed to eat us up And my told, "Nigga, keep it up You gon' end up in prison, sweepin' up" Remember, nobody never in us When they see us now, can't believe it's us, no
I think it's how We to go to school, play SEGA's And then, next you know, you runnin' 'round with Glock .40s We ain't never believed in the police, they was us
2] Yeah, called it the projects, they put us in projects What they gon' do us? Can't call the cops yet You might get popped at 'Cause they the shootin' us I'm on my steps, it's like a bomb threat The violence pursuing us, I ain't God yet I'm on the block where It's just me and Lucifer, look they do to us They we in poverty When I went to court, the judge said, "Meek, you a to society" Huh, you said, you would give me a chance, your honor, why you lie to me? 16 years of probation, you know you gon' get more time on me, huh Whole hood crazy, babies havin' babies She was fourteen, actin' like she Got pregnant by a nigga that was locked up in them And the story on, if you make it, you amazing (Word up)
See, I got homie that's a And I be to explain to him like If mom ain't on crack or if she got a job and she doing eight hours a day And your daddy in the graveyard or in the cell, who the fuck gon' babysit?