Like My Daddy

Yeah, uh

Suit and tie, I'm super fly

Step me down, there's plenty you and I

Tired of hittin' stores and seein' shit that I can't buy

Gotta get rich up in this bitch, on my nephew Mekhi

The common experience of the masses is havin' to work for

Everything that you get, you purchase with hurt feelings

Even when you hit ceilings, you deserve more

Until we get it, we just work more

I'm grinding like my daddy, shining like my daddy

Rolling in a Caddy

I be grinding like my daddy, shining like my daddy

Working like my daddy did, I'm glad he did

Shining like my daddy, grinding like my daddy

Working like my daddy did

Working like my daddy, grinding like my daddy

Shining like my daddy did

'Cause of you, I always tie my ties in a double Windsor

We was just some ninjas in the wood, you Master Splinter

Thought I could get away wit', you caught me masturbatin'

Didn't get mad, you just laughed and helped me master datin'

All the game you gave 'em helped, that boy go slay 'em, though

That reputation as a player, ho, start layin' low

Kamehameha, you was Goku, Super Saiyan, pro

And I'm just trainin' to be just like you one day and more

I'm grinding like my daddy, shining like my daddy

Rolling in a Caddy

I be grinding like my daddy, shining like my daddy

Working like my daddy did, I'm glad he did

Shining like my daddy, grinding like my daddy

Working like my daddy did

Working like my daddy, grinding like my daddy

Shining like my daddy did

Vacuum cleaner, I'll smack you if you miss it

Coachin', teachin', hopin' that we get it

Locked up for that rock stuff, we was livin'

Say somethin' 'bout him, you get socked up from his children

Cool as a Klondike with frostbite next to a Slurpee (slurpee)

Prison push-ups for your pecs and next it was burpees (burpees)

And when you flex, you could set a cup on your chest

Plus, you had women of every shade showin' interest

But I guess that your preference was Hershey (hershey)

You and my mama was a mess, you both met on the church scene (yeah)

What happened next had preacher and singer beggin' for mercy

Three sons in three years, hot damn, get my mom off the gurney

Calm off the ganja, but in the eighties they gave us guns and a drug meant to spawn our destruction

They locked you up for robbin' Peter, so Paul give you substance

It was all in God's plan 'cause Sir Davion and Dan got accustomed to ruckus, fear no man

Hear no evil, take your chance

Shoot your shot, and if they talkin' shit, take off

And if you fightin', try not to get caught

And if they catch you, don't say shit 'bout who you wit' because you might get off

It's a cold, cold world waitin' for you, black boy (boy)

But you stay optimistic and loyal, ask for (for)

Exactly what you want and God'll give it to you

I done my time and now it's yours, I'm 'bout to live it through you

'Cause I'm your daddy, I'm proud to be your daddy

I'll always be your daddy

'Cause I'm your daddy, I'm proud to be your daddy

Won't leave you like my daddy did, I'm sad he did

But I'll always be your daddy, just call on me, your daddy

I'll pull up in a Caddy

Yeah, I'm your daddy, I'm proud to be your daddy

Won't leave you like my daddy did

When I came home, the most important thing to me was to be a father to my sons

Uh, I did also feel I had a unrepayable debt to my wife for holdin' on

For not replacing me, you know, not lettin' my sons call another man daddy

And so even being good to them is being good to her

Uh, I enjoy the fact that, you know, we made a mutual decision for me to stay home with the boys

And, um, she was free to pursue her career

In music, you know, that year she sang with, with Michael Jackson

Uh, Gladys Knight, you know, a lot of the OG, uh, singers and stuff

And she did well, she even made a, a M&M's commercial that we lived off of

With the royalties and stuff

But that was the thing, I, I needed to fulfill that promise

That I wouldn't abandon my sons like I got abandoned