Bambú - Moms lyrics

[Intro] “Gentlemen, let's get down to business” [Verse 1] Since she was a child she felt that she did not belong She would pray to Jesus who she did believe was blonde She heard of America and saw that as her goal Met a dude they called Anilo who would sing her sappy songs Write her sappy poems from a boat he called his home In the navy he was stationed all the way across the globe So she said f** it took a trip She was tipped The spouses fly free Yolanda straight dipped Across the sound out in Bremerton alone Hit up the USO and called my daddy on the phone My daddy didn't know the quarter Dex said, “Ayo, your wife is at the airport over at the USO” My pop ain't have a car back then so he had to borrow A friend's ride to pick up his wife “So began the struggle” Father hella broke so Momma's many hopes of America were not the way the missionaries told her Eventually they moved on down to Cali Gave birth to a pistola and so then began a family And by the time my little brother Dre came Hard times hit us, dad under pressure He took it out on mom and mom used to bruise and My dad hit the road, so mama used to use Living in the hood, single mama, one room Then one day she wiped the tears off, enrolled herself in school now While she in school, I used to hang around the block And add to the stresses till my cousin got shot Depression hit my mom so bad Especially to see a new woman with my dad My mom's heart trembled, but her focus stayed straight Used to ride the RTG, 6am every day Trying to keep her kids from seeking jail time plus Trying to keep some food in our guts Got me saying hey ma Hey ma x 4 Wa**up ma? Hey ma x 3 Yeah Yeah, that's the story of my mama And that's he reason why I never make it rain with dollars And that's the reason why I find it difficult to love you Cause mama never had the time to show me how to function Through the hard times mama used to shut the door and cry So sorry if when we fight I kick the door inside And yeah I got some issues with you listening And that sh** probably come from being raised not given The attention that I wanted, but I wanna make us work So I read Grace Lee Boggs and bell hooks' work But real sh**, that practice so much harder than the theory When we get to fighting, I'm fighting the demon in me The patriarchy in me, or the womanizer in me Start to creep up when a bunch of brown women near me But you don't never worry never trip Make up to break up sh** you me and my kid Through credit cards getting shut To using EBT cards when sh** got rough Khalil's got a momma who ain't tripping off dough Cause what Khalil's mama understands is how to be broke To my beautiful brown babies and they beautiful mamas When you old enough, treat your sisters just like your mamas And if you comfortable throwing some money at your mom Delete this off your iTunes me and you got a problem Ey yo ma What's up, ma? [Spoken] “I don't know what anyone else believes but, but I believe females deserve the ultimate respect at all times, no matter when were how” “Get out b**h, [?]” x2 [Verse 2] Women raped at an alarming rate Overseas, the united states Big booty jiggling all in my face But the oppression of a woman we just look the other way Yeah she fly, but I don't care Profile pic with her a** in the air Exploitation exploitation with a worker in a field in her underwear Oh yeah we got freedom over here Taliban oppress all the women when they wear A woman in a burka and they murder a woman for getting raped And for infidelity they getting stoned by prayer f** em f** em f** em let em all die slow Just try the other side of the coin [?], with less clothes Women being used as a marketing tool To sell everything from cell phones to bottles of brew I guess the freedom to be Props in the video cool Need a couple [?] have you Mama always told me never take no sh** And mama had me on that f** the police sh** [Spoken] “[?] Every time I see their sign on their car saying to protect and to serve I say to myself sh**, you are there to accuse and to abuse. To them all suspects are guilty until proven innocent, and they have to be beaten up.” You see? I told you [Hook] I feel exploited, oppressed, objectified in my flesh X10 [Spoken] “One time a police officer called up asking to support their fundraising, I almost said ‘hell no, no way.' I wanted to say, “Sorry, I have no money, I just bailed out my son.”