[00:00.000]There, there, baby
[00:02.375]It's just textbook stuff
[00:04.304]It's in the ABC, of growin' up
[00:11.178]There, there, baby
[00:13.349]It's just textbook stuff
[00:15.458]It's in the ABC, of growin' up
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[00:22.356](XV)Three women raised me
[00:23.146]Famous Footwear paid me not enough to blow up
[00:25.498]But showed up cause I ain't fuckin' lazy
[00:27.479]And teachers thought I was dumb or crazy
[00:29.405]Or both
[00:30.172]With hopes of being a Nas or Jay-Z
[00:32.217]I slumped, in my chair and my grades
[00:34.743]My head wasn't raised
[00:36.015]Being fly was priority to the lowest
[00:37.847]I would stand on my desk just to see the world in a different way
[00:41.316]The dead society of a poet
[00:43.393]Homie I'm focused
[00:44.448]But there's something that a dude can't prove
[00:46.401]I mean fam, I was damn near invisible at school
[00:49.478]So I banged for a minute
[00:50.779]Cause all my niggas was crippin'
[00:52.122]Just me and my two of my dudes, blue man crew
[00:54.873]Had dreams of doing things they say that you can't do
[00:57.525]Cause everything ain't black and white, 'less you chew bamboo
[01:00.480]So I was after big bills like a toucan do
[01:03.278]All the while my mom askin' why I'm truant at school
[01:06.046]She said
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[01:07.512]There, there, baby
[01:08.198]It's just textbook stuff
[01:10.602]It's in the ABC, of growin' up
[01:17.330]There, there, baby
[01:19.543]It's just textbook stuff
[01:21.787]It's in the ABC, of growin' up
[01:26.808]
[01:28.658]Uhh, So why ain't I go to college
[01:30.440]My mommas ultimatum made me say that I know I got it
[01:33.189]My niggas said V's buggin'
[01:34.455]Stay on your computer software, debugging
[01:36.805]But we holding hardware cause we thuggin'
[01:39.229]Now they in the trap-house with some guns that they done borrowed
[01:42.322]And all this snow, I call it Infant Sorrow
[01:44.824]With plans to reach the end even if I had to start slow
[01:47.586]Sold CDs in the mall, making dough like Sbarro
[01:50.454]Then I left the hood, like fuck it don't need the cargo
[01:53.137]They banking I don't do well, and I don't mean Fargo
[01:55.795]But even when you leave, somehow it still try to follow
[01:58.271]Baby brother took a charge harder than LeBron and Rondo
[02:01.400]Trying to keep his head up while his eyes are in the Bible
[02:03.919]Cause they say a mind that's idle is a devil's toy aisle
[02:06.829]My nephew looking at me cause his daddy is his idol
[02:09.422]I looked at him, told him sit down
[02:10.617]This information is vital, look
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[02:12.648]There, there, baby
[02:14.482]It's just textbook stuff
[02:16.873]It's in the ABC, of growin' up
[02:23.407]There, there, baby
[02:25.902]It's just textbook stuff
[02:27.896]It's in the ABC, of growin' up
[02:33.211]
[02:35.393](Kendrick:)Living my life like I'm living right
[02:37.244]In the midst of a fire pit
[02:38.452]The gang-banging and violence, is the sweetest song
[02:40.724]And I roam with the heart of a violin
[02:42.315]Don't violate my patience I'm waiting, to kill a man
[02:45.113]As I stare at the ceiling fan, as a fan of these wicked streets
[02:48.126]If I gotta eat, I steel like a metal piece
[02:50.485]I'm screamin' out fuck the police
[02:51.939]I'm dealing my cards with Jokers on em
[02:53.664]You can disown him or stone him
[02:55.130]I'm throwing them rocks back, with the fury of bullets
[02:57.143]You couldn't live your life for the moment
[02:58.904]When I'm foamin' at the mouth
[03:00.318]And my sharpest of teeth showin'
[03:01.610]I'm in the back of a black Buick
[03:03.332]Finna black out, like February
[03:05.124]Ain't that's how Black's do it, right
[03:06.886]I cut off my ears before I hear your advice and vice versa
[03:09.976]I'm screaming for help, as loud as I can but that's not working
[03:12.870]I'm working them corners like blueprints
[03:15.198]Then caught an L on my first offence
[03:16.638]The judge threw the book at me
[03:18.077]And said this
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[03:19.288]There, there, baby
[03:21.044]It's just textbook stuff
[03:23.159]It's in the ABC, of growin' up
[03:29.734]There, there, baby
[03:31.934]It's just textbook stuff
[03:33.967]It's in the ABC, of growin' up