[Intro] Oh, oh, oh, oh [?] [Verse] Imagine a world full of no colors Just sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers Unconditionally loving one another Under the Lord's watchful eye we occupy the third rock in the sky 93,000,000 miles away from where lava can fry My momma in labor on the 4th, the hottest July 48 hours later, they heard a marvelous cry Rattling my tonsils I'm staring at who's responsible for smacking me on the ass, get a pass we in the hospital Fresh out the womb, scower the room, a new flower just bloomed My momma tells me, you was 'posed to come out me in June A gentleman standing over me says, "hello there I delivered you" I look back at him thinking, "oh yeah" Ok so where do we go from here, I'm hoping nowhere Cause everyone’s so happy in here and they make it so clear If this is life then I love it I turned my screaming up The doc says I’ll bring him right back, let me go clean him up They wipe off all the discharge Hand me to my momma say we writing up the discharge 24 hours later we in my Uncle Chris car Made a left into the projects and a life of being piss poor
Onesies sliding up and down the hallway on the sixth floor Note in my hand, borrowing cooking oil from Miss Moore Kicking on the witch door Jumping down a flight of stairs, clearing the syringes Luckily I was dope enough to miss them sh*ts by inches Moms in front the building getting splinters on the benches While the hustlers made a killing doing dealings near the entrance Survival in the trenches, detectives in them trenches Showing pictures of the people I would grow up to be friends with By the time I turned 1-6, I respected a gun kick Emptied out this one clip in Bushwick, on some dumb sh*t Saw that crack money, immediately started selling Bought some grams on Kosciusko in '97 Biggie in my headphones, absolute in my cup Yeah, I still wrote rhymes, but hit the studio for what? Only bass I care abouts the one the feens blew up Where y’all said that booth was? Little ni**a I boof drugs I was living that sh*t day and night Moms like don’t throw away ya life but this my way of life Plus if God really wanted me to get far Then why my Uncle Chris car go left, he shoulda made a right