Grow Up

Good morning boys and girls

You over there in that black shirt

What you wanna be when you grow up?

My mother worked two jobs, gang banging was too raw

1993, I was bumping some of that Snoop Dogg

Murder was the case , my uncle caught a case

My grandmother stressing out, I could feel her pain

Acting older than I was, I should have been acting my age

I had to walk to school, I got recruited to the gang

My mother tried to do her best, on minimum wage

But it was hard when I seen the drug dealers in the range

Such a bad example, she didn't even know it

I truly needed my father with me, you need to know it

You need to know it, cause I need someone to be heroic

Someone to motivate me when I wanna be a poet

I truly think that I can be the ****st, maybe noticed

Never losing my focus, but you ruined the moments

S**t was hard in my apartment, roaches and old, carpets

I'mma enemy target, matresses by the garbage

I know it's hard to grow up (grow up)

I know it's hard to grow up (oh)

But it's time to grow up (grow up)

I know it's hard to grow up (oh)

(But everybody gotta grow..)

But it's time to grow up (grow up)

(But everybody gotta grow..)

What you wanna be when you grow up?

I wanna be a mother****ing hustler, you better ask somebody

Yo, I wish my father never met that woman

Broke my family up, you should have ****ing left that woman

I was eating cereal, my mama cried to sleep

Remember the kisses I gave you on the side of your cheek?

I made some promises, that I will make accomplishments

And I became a criminal, please accept my apologies

I'mma get you out this, show these rappers what time it is

Buy you the car you needed, and have somebody to drive you in it

My mama held my hand, standing at the bus stop

Gave me the love I needed, the streets, covered in gun shots

Stop making excuses, and stop going to prison

Cause people forget about you when people don's even visit

This is for my young homies, thinking there's no way out

Throwing your life away, living broke, that shit is played out

OG's tell me stories 'bout life in the pen

A dark cell, homies lost, doing ******

I know it's hard to grow up (grow up)

I know it's hard to grow up (oh)

But it's time to grow up (grow up)

(I know it's hard to grow up)

I know it's hard to grow up (oh)

(I know it's hard to grow)

But it's time to grow up (grow up)

(But everybody got, everybody gotta grow up..)

And if you fall, get back up

And just remember, everybody gotta grow up

And if you fall, get back up

And just remember, everybody gotta grow up

Grow up, Grow, everybody gotta grow up

Everybody, everybody gotta grow up

Believe me homie, you can make it