Yeah
This for all my people that grew up being told
That they would be dead in the penitentiary
It's about time they were grown
And then you wonder why
They got depression self-esteem anxiety issue you know
After so long you start to believe it check check
I recall everything I was told
Boy you'll never live to be 18 years old
Dead or incarcerated just like those
People who wander down similar roads
Leavin' out the house she said please don't go
Granny why you stay tryin' to save my soul
If death is my destiny like you had said to me
Let me get busy before he ge'ts the best of me
Don't you know bullets don't have no brain
And a lot of youngers don't have no aim
Am I livin' or dyin' somebody please explain
Goin' or stayin' because I'm going insane
I'm strapped up cause he is sheisty cause she is
Meanwhile a dude who teach chemistry is
In his office with a kid doing shit I get expelled for
Which makes me wonder why people go to jail for it
Even if I did die young so what
Nobody expected me to ever grow up
Grandmama lectured me you better grow up
But there wasn't no telling me I was a grown up
Even if I did die young so what
Nobody expected me to ever grow up
Grandmama lectured me you better grow up
But there wasn't no telling me I was a grown up
I'm a kid peeping in justice y'all let slide
But you're so quick to point out mine
That's what made me draw that line
Blinded by my own desire
I'm doing fine
No I'm not I'm doing bad but I'm so afraid to talk
Y'all got shit going on I don't wanna bother y'all
Pops cut from a different cloth never be the man he was
Thought I was slow I turned out to be a genius
And I ain't returned like eat my peanuts
Let our bank statements be the difference between us
If I seem distant b***h I'm 30 something
I was suppose to been done been a murder victim
My grandpa prayed 'till his knees gave way
If you can't save me
God please save Jason
The way I went in that's the only explanation
I know some bad dudes enough to know I ain't one
Even if I did die young so what
Nobody expected me to ever grow up
Grandmama lectured me you better grow up
But there wasn't no telling me I was a grown up
Even if I did die young so what
Nobody expected me to ever grow up
Grandmama lectured me you better grow up
But there wasn't no telling me I was a grown us
I was confused and you can hear it in my rhetoric
In retrospect I never should have made it back
I wrote my Senator and never got a letter back
My friend Chris got killed for a Cadillac
My man Mike died for a powder pack
So understand why I could think that I was next
Under attack guns and crack
Or the motherf**kin' police shoot us in the back
And ah they think it only happens to blacks
And refuse to believe it almost happened to 'Stak
Stabbed in the back
Blood beating threw a heart filled with crack
Soldier up
Fought through that
Injuries a lot of players don't walk off
I walked off cause I ain't the type to walk on
If you're family you're suppose to love me when I'm wrong
Be a man and represent me when I'm gone
Stones in the foundation get looked over
But without them the whole damn house falls over
This is for the rocks that exist beneath me
The block which gave me a past to be me
BB's are baby bullets baby's are in training
My people were bangin' before they called it bangin'
Just chillin' hangin' words exchange
One thing lead to another all I heard was
Even if I did die young so what
Nobody expected me to ever grow up
Grandmama lectured me you better grow up
But there wasn't no telling me I was a grown up
Even if I did die young so what
Nobody expected me to ever grow up
Grandmama lectured me you better grow up
But there wasn't no telling me I was a grown up
