[00:00.00]Didn't I tell you to get your tail up out of that bed
[00:03.70]And get ready to go to church?
[00:05.61]You can't lay there and sleep all day
[00:07.49]You gotta go to church!
[00:08.82]
[00:14.39]Uh, what's a nigga in America?
[00:16.77]Why the **** is we here?
[00:18.31]Why you tell me go back where I'm from
[00:20.63]When you dragged me here?
[00:21.96]Why we born to be poor?
[00:23.43]Why our fathers be gone?
[00:25.39]Why my father forsake us?
[00:27.14]Why my momma so strong?
[00:29.23]And on my momma I'd kill ya
[00:30.74]On Faris, I'd kill ya
[00:32.73]Nigga we were so broke, split 20 dollars a weekend
[00:36.10]I, never cried but I realized what we were missing
[00:39.68]My mind had a nigga on edge, I started sellin' and cheatin'
[00:43.12]Said **** the government, **** the man
[00:45.21]**** the Feds, **** the law
[00:46.62]See Que was ****in my girl, too ****in hungry to care
[00:49.94]I started sellin mo', thinking bout Zip
[00:52.81]Thinking what I did, ****ed her friend
[00:55.30]****ed her homie, then ****ed again
[00:57.41]I started sippin on liquor
[00:59.14]Couldn't cope wit the changes
[01:00.89]We went back to the hood
[01:02.53]Started slanging and bangin'
[01:04.54]Feds was outside my house
[01:06.24]Second time we got raided
[01:08.15]Everything was for you
[01:09.74]I want to get you that coupe
[01:11.65]Black and young and a **** up
[01:13.61]I wanna prove this to you
[01:15.15]That I could be more than a boy
[01:16.85]But a father with you
[01:18.75]I, wish I could change
[01:20.61]But God you made me this way
[01:22.31]So I'm gon keep my faith high
[01:24.03]And bow my head and just pray
[01:25.83]Like this
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[01:27.30]Lord Lord, I need, your help, Lord
[01:34.14]Lord Lord, I need, your help, Lord
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[01:40.98]I was so young and dumb
[01:42.29]You were so young and dumb
[01:44.01]Allan was in the picture
[01:45.90]I was gon' pop dat nigga
[01:47.72]Celebrity status now
[01:49.19]You in a wedding gown
[01:51.09]You was gon' be my wife
[01:53.00]Move to a newer life
[01:54.83]Tried to make dreams with you
[01:56.45]Still I'm so proud of you
[01:58.28]Look at the woman from a girl a flower blossomed too
[02:01.83]The prettiest of them all
[02:03.55]You was gon' have it all
[02:05.33]You was gon' have the mall
[02:07.11]But you still got it all
[02:08.75]Shower you wit' some poems
[02:10.71]Shower you wit' some songs
[02:12.59]Remember the drawing I made?
[02:14.50]Remember the flowers I gave?
[02:16.15]Remember the time that we spent?
[02:17.97]Remember the time that we missed?
[02:19.72]Don't let that happen again
[02:21.53]Go find you a better man
[02:23.33]And go have that baby boy
[02:24.90]And make him a better man
[02:26.54]Tell him his mother loves him
[02:28.66]Just like she used to love me
[02:30.30]And play him this tape for you
[02:32.00]Tell him what we been through
[02:33.78]So we can both raise that child like we promised, we would do