You want for Christmas? no What chu mean is all we got? it...
It's Christmas time in the home Daddy's all crazy again Momma got herself a bloody Daddy slapped her in the again Why they always gotta fight so damn Momma face Me and my in a panic state If thats the case, yo I can't stay around this Everything was fine, we had dinner We got all the Cat, Adam and Cringer, even Castle Greyskull and Snake Mountain
Now we sit and listen to argue about how y'all planned this day And y'all just admitted to us Santa So Kid Vishis just ran away Now I gotta go and him He nothin' but a spoiled little boy then Little naive with an cry All he wanted to do was fit in with us And y'all him a pair of fake Timberlands and put in a real box I never them boots, they was called Rugged Outbacks
went and found them at Payless and made us not to say nothin' Then Pop came in like he ain't know nothin' it Like, "Judy you gon' send boy out in public like that?" "He'll be fine, kids ain't 'bout to be looking down at his feet for no treat" And she really that Meanwhile, little arrogant nigga called himself stuntin' on me and Greg with him talkin' about, "where Timbs at?" But he was too to detect sarcasm so we was like, "nigga, your Timbs at?"
Thanksgiving in the Montgomery home Greg just came in here again Now Momma cover for him, she afraid my Daddy gone him again Why you gotta get drunk so damn! I wish you would stay where you was at instead of coming home all rude and disrespectin' all our all the rules and shit, man
The mood done switched me and Vicious playing Four Our movie just came on the and it's ironic it's Bloodsport And I'm looking at Frank Dux and shit, thinkin' you should Before come down these stairs of this basement and see you But he just cut me off like, "That nigga ain't do shit"
But the truth is he couldn't whoop my dad if he was sober I 'cause he tried once Ended up unconscious, a broke arm and a tooth was My big bro got a lot of emotional He feel that we was all as kids He saw Momma get down all kinds of stairs like a when he was two
And this is back when Daddy used to cocaine, poor thang He had to be to this when he gets drunk He gets to it He gets the illusion that he gon' us all from the Big Bad Wolf Stand up to him and prove some But all he really doing is Mom out Gotta her goin', "boy you know your daddy up asleep The is ready, why you stop making all this noise and let him stay sleep?"
The Turkey's done in the Montgomery Dad has just awakened again Greg is making all of noise Daddy's on his way angry "Who is that all that God damn noise? Greggy, get up here! You been out drinking again? What the fuck I tell you about in my house with disrespectful shit? Nigga where the you don' been?"
I'm to myself Greg please don't say nothin' stupid, man time my Daddy in his drawers and he in the hallway mad at somebody, I swear to God he got the same strength as My brother turned around and walks in the kitchen Without even an answer, with his back to him like "I ain't talk to you nigga" "Nigga, you don't hear me to you?" thing my brother did is something that it comes to my father is something you just don't do He looked him right in his and he asked him, "what the is you gon' do?"
My hit him so hard his body hit the stove The oven door hit the floor The turkey fell out the oven whole and landed near the Now standing over Greg talkin' 'bout, "Nigga, you hurt! Get up, get up!" And here come talkin' 'bout, "Dad, I don't think he get up" Then Momma went near hysterical She called the police, the police is all in the street watching the cops my father out in handcuffs Damn, man shit was real embarassing
To all my friends I grew up or grew up fatherless I know through me you live I want you to know we ain't no better you and yours We all therapy We about each other more than we care if anybody understands us What I'm say is "fuck you! " and Happy Holidays from the family
Every man that point in life Where he don't want to excuses no more more Life took me on a ride I've been up been down all the ribbons and my came
Took me on Turned around and took me on lows Oh Then I think it I use that as fuel Then I it into "power" Now can't you it? you feel it?
That I'm a grown man "power" Yeah, let me hear you say If you was raised in a strict home me Felt like me and it gave you "power"
You can do it too just at me See I'm a grown man "power" Yeah, say yeah If you know the meaning of abusive You've through so much ain't nothing can do to you
Now you feel it? I'mma run is how I became A man with "power"
You can do it too If I can do it Use "power"
I was a I was a ain't nothing you can do to me Do to me
"When you were a child growing up with grandad and Did you really feel grandad was a good father to you?" Absolutely, absolutely. All my friend's was walking out on them left and right. Y'know he left us, he was always there for us. Y'know there were a lot of things happened that I understand. Maybe I might not answered the question the way when I was a teenager, but I and appreciate him so much more now: as a man. Y'know 'cause he taught me respect and and consequences for acts. So yeah of
"Do you think his approach as a really shaped the type of that you are today, or do you in some ways it had negatives to it, and if so, what kind of negative do you try to avoid having as a father now, to me?"
When you your own you'll understand