
Date of issue: 31.12.2005
Age restrictions: 18+
Song language: English
Been Through The Storm |
Been through the storm, through the cold and rain |
Everything’s still the same |
Can’t control how I feel |
Sometimes it’s hard to keep it real |
You see the luxuries in life, with the fortune and fame |
Like them Cadillacs with sunroofs mayne |
So many ways to make a dollar |
Huh, sometimes I think about my father |
You see my poppa was broke, and my momma was young |
Tryin to blend in with them city folk |
Every day landlord knockin down my do' |
Wonderin where my next blessing is comin from |
My momma and poppa, moved to the U.S. as Jamaicans |
Struggled to get visas and green cards through immigration |
Though my pop was po', stayed away from crime and malice |
Hard living gave him hard hands and callous |
As a young’n, peep how much they loved each other’s space |
His hard hands rubbin against the pretty skin of my mother’s face |
Dig for treasure 'til his hands looked like hands of a junkie |
So coarse, slap a mule and take the life from a donkey |
On the other hand, mommy was the type to work two jobs |
Never enough money, that’s why I got your whole crew robbed |
Got older, developed ways of grippin the steel |
Barely home for me to see her, or get a good cooked meal |
Seek refuge in the alleged land of the free, lookin |
Blendin in with city folk, down in Flatbush Brooklyn |
Feel a little of my pain, follow and sing to it |
Homey I seen it all, if you ain’t knowin I been through it |
In other words I |
Got a little older, late teens, me and my crew would huddle |
On the corner late nights, plottin to escape struggle |
Nights got cold and still would hustle in the same place |
In front of Pancho Delis, now the freeze up on a nigga face |
1987 Reaganomics ever curious |
To visit other cities, out of town kick was serious |
Guayanese jeans bounce, put whatever slinger on |
Whatever slinger came back, quickly brought me right along |
Nigga ran away from home |
Doin different wild shit, just to put a pair of Filas on, 'Didas on |
Wreck is all for the good, gettin into shit |
Like we innocent, actin older than we should |
Walk around broke in the hood, watchin all the rich niggas |
These younger thugs who try to choke and try to get niggas |
Thinkin 'bout my mom and pop, while I’m monopolizin |
To hell with just gettin by and economizin |
It’s kinda hard bein humble in the belly of struggle |
Doin things that probably get you in trouble |
That’s why we stay up on the block, gettin money while we keepin it safe |
In front of churchgoers keepin the faith |
Mom and pop be worryin for they son |
Despite they struggle and their honest livin look and see just what I become |
A scavenger, in brute pursuit to be happy, another young’n that’s wildin |
Across the line until somebody tryin to cap me — ohhhh shit |
I been through the storm |
Through the cold and rain |
Everything’s still the same |
Can’t control how I feel |
Sometimes it’s hard to keep it real |
Woooooooooooooo-whoahhhhhhhhhhhhh |
Yeahhhhhhhhhhh-ohhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
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