[Verse 1]
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I recall everything I was told
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Boy you'll never live to be 18 years old
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Dead or incarcerated just like those
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People who wonder down similar roads
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Leavin out the house
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She said please don't go
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Granny why you steady tryin ta save my soul
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If death is my destiny like you had said to me
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Let me get busy before he gets the best of me
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Don't you know bullets don't have no brain
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And alot of youngings don't have no aim
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Am I living or dying somebody please explain
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Goin or staying because I'm going insane
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I'm strapped up cause he is
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Shishty cause she is
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Meanwhile dude who teach chemistry is
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In his office with a kid doing shit I get expelled for
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Which makes me wonder why people go to jail for it
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[X2]
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Even if I did die young so what
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Nobody expected me to ever grow up
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Grandmama lectured me you better grow up
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But there wasn't no telling me I was a grown up
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[Verse 2]
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I'm a kid peeping in justice yall let slide
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But your so quick to point out mine
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That's what made me draw that line
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Blinded by my own design
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I'm doing fine, no I'm not I'm doing bad
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But I'm so afraid to talk
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Yall got shit going on
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I don't wanna bother yall
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Pops cut from a different cloth
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Never be the man that he was
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Thought I was slow, I turned out to be a genius
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And I ain't returned like eat my peanuts
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Let my our bank statements be the difference between us
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If I seem distant, bitch I'm 30 something
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I was suppose to been done been a murder victim
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My grandpa prayed until his knees gave way
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If you can`t save me, God please save Jason
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The way I went in that's the only explanation
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I know some bad dudes enough to know I ain't one
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[X2]
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Even if I did die young so what
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Nobody expected me to ever grow up
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Grandmama lectured me you better grow up
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But there wasn't no telling me I was a grown up
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[Verse 3]
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I was confused and you can hear it in my rhetoric
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In retrospect I never should have made it back
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I wrote my Senator and never got a letter back
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My friend Chris got killed for a Cadillac
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My man Mike died for a powder pack
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So understand why I could think I was next
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Under attack guns and crack
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Or the mother fuckin police shoot us in the back
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And ah, they think it only happens to blacks
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And refuse to believe it almost happened to Stak
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Stabbed in the back
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Blood beating threw a heart filled with crack
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Soldier up fought through that
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Injuries alot of players don't walk off
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I walked off cause I ain't the type to walk off
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If you family your suppose to love me when I'm wrong
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Be a man and represent me when I'm gone
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Stones in a foundation get looked over
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But without them the whole damn house falls over
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This is for the rocks that exist beneath me
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The block which gave me a past to be me
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BB's are baby bullets, baby's are in training
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My people were bangin before they called it bangin
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Just chillin, hangin, words exchange
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One thing lead to another, all I heard was [gun shot]
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[X2]
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Even if I did die young so what
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Nobody expected me to ever grow up
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Grandmama lectured me you better grow up
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But there wasn't no telling me I was a grown up
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So What?
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Haystak |