Z-ro - Young n***a lyrics

When I was young, I had the nuts to pull the trigga And make change, outta five dollar a** n***az I was a nerd in middle school But by the tenth grade, I was playing in a game that had only four rules k** or be k**ed, try not to go to the pen Never rat on nobody, and you can't even trust your best friend Fifteen and five, were the numbers in the kitchen And the day I sold my first ounce, wanted rich high school ain't seen me since then A long way, from making the honor roll Mo City Texas everybody had a weapon, you had to stay up on your toes Drinking forty ounces of brew, and smoking fry You ain't from around here, better get gone or be the next to die Even though my hood ain't a ghetto, ain't nothing friendly here The CPS thought they did me a favor, when they sent me here It wasn't nothing but high cla** hookers, and murderers And Houston hardhead, kickdo' burglar A two room duplex, with eleven of us living in it Thought we were players, so we kept some mo' of women in it To see if we could run a train on em Always buying new sheets, cause the old ones had too many stains on em We use to jack, for Raiders and Kings starter jackets Throw a broken spark plug through a car window, and then flag it Snatching Rolexes and purses, coming up nonstop Property from home invasions, ended up in pawn shops Taking penitentiary chances, but having fun n***a Back in the old school, as a young n***a Huh yeah, as a young n***a Back in the old school, as a young n***a [Chorus - 2x] When I was young, I had the nuts to pull the trigger Sometimes, I sit and wish I was a kid again When I was young, I had the nuts to pull the trigger Back in the day when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore So now I'm living, in a two man hell 23 hour lockdown, in a two man cell Stuck in the system and one day home, I hope I'll get to go Meanwhile, they talking about shipping me off to Mexico Ain't that a b**h, I can't speak no Spanish But I guess I shoulda thought about that, when I was out there living manish Too busy missing, what grandmother was telling me I'll end up in prison, or somebody would end up smelling me They say you reap what you sew, and that's the truth I planted a rotten seed, and it brought forth forbidden fruit Now I'm like Adam and Eve They took a bite of what ain't right, that was enough for Eve and Adam to leave I use to roll around the city, with my hand on my mack Now it's a guard telling me, to put my hands behind my back This can't be life I'm grown, I don't do rules Knowing damn well if I was free, I woulda smoked you fool But that's the same attitude, that got me here Picked up for armed robbery, and then a blue bird dropped me here If I was sober, I woulda been in my right mind Ninety months already, but I'm looking at a lifetime And all the homies I ran with, they pa**ed on Living like they were invincible, they didn't last long And I ain't doing no better, than my friends If I don't make parole, I'll never lay my hands on a woman again I'm almost done n***a If only I could back in time, I'd do it different as a young n***a Huh yeah, as a young n***a I'd do it different, as a young n***a [Chorus - 2x] In the beginning I was skinny, but now I'm on swoll 57 years old, still waiting on parole Damn near ready to catch a case, I know I'm never gon' leave The walls are closing in on me, and it's harder to breathe I never been to visitation, since I been here The players I kicked it with, did their time and left me in here I'm old but taking my commissary, ya'll won't do to me I'm good with them hands, but I'm not as young as I use to be So I keep a lock in a sock, and a shank under my mattress These youngsters trying to get me, for my coffee stamps and jack mack My teenage years, I was pulling robberies Now I'm up in age, and I can't stop these teenagers from robbing me I guess the tables have turned They triple teaming me but the CO ain't concerned, my lesson is learn But uh, I ain't never been a coward So the next time they got me, I got my shank and started downing em in the shower I ain't the one n***a But even still I was murdered in the prison system, at the hands of some young n***az We need to stop acting like dumb n***az So we can raise our daughters, and our sons n***a