This right here for my Oodles o' Noodles babies His ma' smoked the crack she was pregnant so he can't even help that he crazy He goin' to jail, inevitable, forreal
1] I have nobody to give me no hope I hope my momma ain't doin' no I used to wish that my daddy was I had a dream that I seen him as I used to act up when I went to Thought it was cool, but I really was my family to come to my games My couldn't make it 'cause she was at work 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 like 4 old We couldn't afford no It was me down Who would think a get a Grammy now? Got a judge tryna tear me down All this time probably wear me down the lights off in the bathroom Screaming, "Bloody, Bloody, Mary" now Havin' nightmares about With the tool on me like a Killed my cousin, I'm like, "Damn it, man" Had to see the on a camera, man On the pavement, his brains out With the sheet, he was laid out ask 'Ye, "Is this a choice?" It was like this I came out What the is you really complaining 'bout? I know that's never gon' make it out This shit you won't see in the media Poor get poorer and the gettin' greedier Lot of daddies goin' back and out of jail Lot of sons up and repeating them This the belly of the beast, you make it out Man, this shit was designed to eat us up And my momma told, "Nigga, it up You gon' end up in prison, sweepin' up" Remember, nobody never in us When they see us now, they can't it's us, no
I think funny how We to go to school, play SEGA's And then, next you know, you runnin' 'round with Glock .40s We ain't believed in the police, they was shootin' us
2] Yeah, they called it the projects, put us in projects What they gon' do us? Can't call the cops yet You just get popped at 'Cause they the shootin' us I'm on my mom's steps, it's like a threat The violence us, I ain't meet God yet I'm on the block where It's just me and Lucifer, look what do to us know 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, honor, why would you lie to me? 16 more years of probation, you know you gon' get more on me, huh Whole hood crazy, babies havin' babies She was fourteen, actin' like she Got pregnant by a that was locked up in them cages 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 your mom ain't on crack or if she got a job and she doing hours a day And daddy in the graveyard or in the jail cell, who the fuck gon' babysit?