| How much of the trauma did mama get? |
| Ayy
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| Way up to the highest level that drama gets, ayy
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| Through the pain of my mother, heartache was on a display
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| I don’t want a sick day to my mama’s dismay, ayy
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| Thinking of all of it, I never wanted a part of it
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| Remember I wanted to let go, when smoking, I managed to get low
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| It coulda been worse, like when I was talking to homies on a cellular phone up
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| on death row
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| When I never had to serve a stretch so, I can still say «But I’m blessed,
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| though»
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| But why did I have to hear mama getting beat
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| In third grade, so I couldn’t really give him missing teeth?
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| But I knew from grandma that what you sow you’re gonna freakin' reap
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| So he robbed a bank and got about 30 years in the pen' for the mission, peace
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| Blessed to get away, but stressed to this day
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| When checks hit a nay, no money, depressed and it’s grey
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| But the family didn’t stutter to pull her and the kid inside their homes
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| Sometimes it was butter and sugar sandwiches
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| Graduated to healthy niggas
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| Tryna protect this investment, moving like stealthy figures
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| All that poverty and pain it really helped me give a damn
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| It dealt me this killer jam, now wealthy I’m living grand, still,
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| I felt these shivers
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| And the cold nights living through all the stresses
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| I’m feeling like I had a lifelong baby bib to protect me from messes
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| Around my neck so I’m safe as far as threats go
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| From the last row to the best flow, I can now say, «But I’m blessed, though»
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| All of these things that get me down
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| I know it’s gotta be an upside now, found somewhere, yeah
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| If I can’t pick my face up off the ground
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| And I don’t know what’s next, I holler, «But I’m blessed», woah
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| And all of these things that get me down
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| I know it’s gotta be an upside now, found somewhere, yeah
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| If I can’t pick my face up off the ground
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| And I don’t know what’s next, I holler, «But I’m blessed», yeah
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| Under pressure, feel like God
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| No discussion when I pull that card
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| Until I see different
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| I know what I know
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| Under pressure, feel like God
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| No discussion when I pull that card
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| Until I see different
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| I know what I know (What I know) |