This shit here for my Oodles o' Noodles babies His ma' smoked the crack while she was pregnant so he even help that he crazy He goin' to jail, inevitable, forreal
1] I ain't nobody to give me no hope I hope my ain't doin' no coke I used to wish my daddy was livin' I had a dream I seen him as ghost I to act up when I went to school it was cool, but I really was hurt Wanted my family to come to my My couldn't make it 'cause she was at work with my grandma, she took me to church Really no I wanna go Remember I my aunt in the casket And her forehead was I was 4 years old We afford no clothes It was me down Who would think a nigga get a Grammy Got a black judge tear me down All jail time probably wear me down Turn the lights off in the Screaming, "Bloody, Bloody, Mary" now Havin' about Candyman With the tool on me like a my lil' cousin, I'm like, "Damn it, man" Had to see the on a camera, man On the pavement, his brains out With the white sheet, he was out ask 'Ye, "Is this a choice?" It was like this when I out What the is you really complaining 'bout? I know niggas that's never make it out This that shit you see in the media Poor get and the rich gettin' greedier Lot of daddies goin' back and out of jail Lot of sons growin' up and repeating This the belly of the beast, you make it out Man, this shit was designed to eat us up And my told, "Nigga, keep it up You end up in prison, just sweepin' up" Remember, never believed in us When they see us now, can't believe it's us, no
I think funny how We used to go to school, play And then, thing you know, you runnin' 'round with Glock .40s We ain't never believed in the police, they was us
2] Yeah, they called it the projects, put us in projects What they gon' do with us? Can't the cops yet You just get popped at 'Cause they the shootin' us I'm on my mom's steps, like a bomb threat The violence pursuing us, I meet God yet 'Cause I'm on the where It's me and Lucifer, look what they do to us They know we in 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 more of probation, you know you gon' get more time on me, huh Whole hood goin' crazy, babies havin' She was fourteen, actin' she eighteen Got pregnant by a nigga was locked up in them cages And the story goes on, if you make it, you (Word up)
See, I got that's a billionaire And I be tryin' to explain to him 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?