...it's a new day... ya what I'm sayin'?
A new day, a new problem to a brother And all I gots ta say is God for my mother Cause without my mommy dear my life would've joke Either locked up dead and still slangin' dope but nope The lord he had a for me And his help, my mother made a man of me Didn't me to the world we was livin' in me how to save my little dividends So when I I'd have a little school money But in the sixth grade I to be the school dummy And outta school with the flag pole And left my mother dear at home with a sad my mother worked the fingers to the bone Cause we was alone, and me I bought a home My real pops he broke out the style So I respect my stepdad, for raisin' another child So now we livin' me the game and how to be responsible But back then I see it I wanted to be a grown man at fourteen so the leavin' And up in a big fight And told me not to home until I got my shit right So now I'm livin' in my grandma's My grandma's strong, she's got kids of her own And keepin' me ain't no big But now that I'm much older I see just how the shit Being kind-hearted, not to tell me no Even though my grandfather had a stroke And now the low And pretty soon a gonna have ta go Or try to find a job so I can help out I'm in the ghetto, I ta get myself out And when I get out I gotta try to the way So my can have a better place to stay I'm losin' all hope, a fallin' short I can't cope, so now I'm dope And now my granny knows I'm doin' She just prayin' for me Take of her grandson And the lord must of her prayer Cause he made me get a And got me on up there I my mother say them streets is gonna kill ya You couldn't have me nothin' back then But now I ya...
I'm eighteen, and now I'm big fun My baby's mother had my first son May eleven, I will forget the day A star's born, name him little scarface My born and yo I'm a proud father I gotta son, I ta be my son's father And sellin dope ain't the way that I can get But what the hell, I gots ta keep my fed I buy him milk, and pampers tryin ta do my And he's my son, I ta try to make him hard I buy him clothes, and not the tonka toys Because the tonka toys will only my boy And I don't my son to look at life Through a replica of reality to make it life-like But yet and I let my son be a kid Just give him up the real, exactly my momma did So when he gets to be a man appreciate The game I gave him way back when he to roller skate And now my son is four old I gots 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 my line of work it's the girlies on my popsicle Now got my baby Wantin' to have their hands in my pocket to drive me crazy "it's daughter, don't she look like you? " I can't tell, why don't you take it to ma momma do Because my knows the real deal All these hoochies coochie tryin' to get a free meal So now we in and outta to get mo money, braggin' om the child support Tellin' her that she's breakin' me Now eveybody knows, she was just fakin' g Come to out, the girl never had me the baby's mother but me I ain't the baby's daddy And biological can prove You gotta get up off of me and go the other dude But now I got a real daughter No for the testin' I know I'm the baby's father I heard my say them hoes will try ta kill ya You couldn't have me nothin' back then But now I ya...
I ya...
Now I'm twenty-two and got a grip on life It's nineteen ninety-three, I put my pocket knife And got a bigger to fight with I'm young and black so my choice a nightstick Because we in a concentration set And everyday, we face to with death I seen my go and come And judgement day is just we can't run from So I my number's comin' up So I gotta protect myself suckers who be runnin' up And even I hate killin' off my own kind I gotta be a man and as a man I'm a mine My brother corners to keep the neighbourhood at peace Don't fight each other, we gots ta stand and the beast So united we stand but we fall quick Because we tryin to take another brother's shit And the cops is in the vote Just because we comin' up they think we slang dope They shootin' ta kill, gas ain't sparkin' goods They my long time partner rudy in cold blood And now the story's all up And if gave the cop the chair I really give a fuck Because she left my family with memories And after hearin' this I know you remember me But yet in still I it hard for me to stay in touch I see his parents and then I breakin' up Because I know what you did was But you won't until you dead and gone It ain't no justifiable homicide, you gave a warning You up shot him from behind But all the cryin' in the ain't gonna bring him back You give a gat to a black he don't how to act But you tell your story to the judge Not the imitation judge, the judge 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