...it's a new day... ya what I'm sayin'?
A new day, brings a new problem to a And all I gots ta say is God for my mother Cause my mommy dear my life would've been joke Either locked up playin' dead and still dope but nope The lord he had a for me And with his help, my mother a man of me Didn't blindfold me to the we was livin' in Taught me how to save my dividends So when I graduated I'd have a little school But in the sixth grade I wanted to be the school And flunked outta school with the pole And my mother dear at home with a sad soul my mother worked the fingers to the bone Cause we was alone, and me I bought a home My real pops he out with the style So I respect my stepdad, for another nigga's child So now we livin' Taught me the game and how to be But then I couldn't see it I wanted to be a man at fourteen so the kid's leavin' And ended up in a big And told me not to come home until I got my right So now I'm in my grandma's home My strong, she's got nine kids of her own And keepin' me no big deal But now that I'm older I see just how the shit feels Being kind-hearted, not wantin' to me no though my grandfather just had a stroke And now the low And pretty a brother's gonna have ta go Or either try to find a job so I can out I'm in the ghetto, I gots ta get out And when I get out I try to pave the way So my can have a better place to stay I'm losin' all hope, a brother's short I can't cope, so now I'm slangin' And now my granny knows I'm wrong She prayin' for me heavily Take care of her And the lord must of heard her Cause he made me get a And got me on up there I heard my mother say them is gonna kill ya You couldn't have told me nothin' back But now I ya...
I'm eighteen, and now I'm big fun My baby's mother had my first son May eleven, I never forget the day A star's born, let's name him scarface My first born and yo I'm a proud I son, I gots ta be my son's father And sellin ain't the way that I can get ahead But what the hell, I gots ta my baby fed I buy him milk, and tryin ta do my part 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 punk my boy And I don't want my son to look at Through a replica of reality tryin' to it life-like But yet and I let my son be a kid Just give him up the real, like my momma did So when he gets to be a man he'll The game I gave him way back when he used to skate And now my son is four old I really gots ta give the real and try to play the father's Because these he'll remember most So it's all about marcus and me becomin' close But I got a obstacles If it ain't my line of it's the girlies on my popsicle Now got my baby Wantin' to have hands in my pocket tryin to drive me crazy "it's daughter, don't she look like you? " I just can't tell, why you take it to ma momma do Because my mother the real deal All hoochies poppin' coochie tryin' to get a free meal So now we in and outta Tryin' to get mo money, braggin' om the support Tellin' her friends that she's me Now eveybody knows, that she was fakin' g Come to out, the girl never had me She's the baby's mother but me I ain't the baby's And tests can prove You gotta get up off of me and go after the dude But now I got a real daughter No need for the I that I'm the baby's father I heard my daddy say them hoes try ta kill ya You couldn't have told me nothin' then But now I ya...
I ya...
Now I'm and finally got a grip on life It's nineteen ninety-three, I put away my pocket And got a bigger to fight with I'm young and so my choice ain't a nightstick Because we livin' in a set And everyday, we face to face with I seen my go and come And day is just somethin we can't run from So I know my comin' up So I gotta protect myself suckers who be runnin' up And even though I hate off my own kind I gotta be a man and as a man I'm a defend My brother corners to keep the neighbourhood at peace Don't fight each other, we gots ta stand and the beast So united we but we gonna fall quick Because we always to take another brother's shit And the cops is in the vote Just because we comin' up quick think we slang dope shootin' ta kill, they gas ain't sparkin' goods They shot my long time partner rudy in blood And now the story's all up And if gave the cop the chair I wouldn't give a fuck Because she left my partner's family memories And after hearin' this I you don't 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 realize until you dead and gone It ain't no justifiable homicide, you never a warning You straight up shot him from But all the cryin' in the world ain't gonna him back You give a gat to a black he don't how to act But you gotta tell your story to the Not the imitation judge, the that everybody loves And if the man grants you forgiveness Then in reality you took of your business But regardless I know you wanna me But I ain't goin' out dat Ya me?
...yeah