My Baby

Can I sing my song one time?

Can I tell my side of the story?

Just for one time

I never thought that I would go to the pen

Father  thinks that I would do it again

I'm a statistic, it's mapped out

They kill a **** then we black out

You kill a **** we get maxed out

Permanent

Government put us in poverty

We commit robberies

Some sellin' dope on the road

That lil' girl who made A's in biology?

She sell her body just to put food on the stove

Now what you call that?

White people say they all that

But they ain't never slept on the floor

For the rent so dope, went cold, no heat in the trenches

I probably wouldn't either if I wasn't a 'vic

My partners good people but look how they do

Mama couldn't sleep if her kids weren't wit' her

And my father did things in the streets now, 'member

Stay ahead of the game and move cautious

I never knew what it mean, I'm not a scholar

They kill us by the color of the skin, we got a problem

Cemetery or go to the pen, that's not an option

I'd go home but, fuck it, I'm bein' malice

**** kill a ****, that solitary confinement

Convicted of a murder, they treat him like he a lion

Lock him in a cage and take him out his environment

Set it up, yeah ****, we sly

They blind to the fact, it's the truth

They build us a project then kill all the roots

Now the man of the house gon' be forced to get loose

A jail cell, yeah ****, they gon' recruit

(Who?) **** like you, they put 'em in orange suits

Baby momma trippin', she burnin' like, "Is it through?"

Hey, yo' daughter gettin' bullied, now who gon' take her to school?

Not you, not you

'Cause you gone for a long, long time

And my **** smoke weed but I'm high off life

I talk to myself in my songs sometimes

Officer, I'm not scared of you now

Come without that badge, it's just me and you, yeah

Tell 'em if they ready, then come and take me, take me

All I got is God when my son look in my eyes

I tell lil Tredae, "You my baby boy"

Through these homicides, I can hear my momma cryin'

Say now, my baby

My baby, uh, uh

My baby

Police take my life, I know she gon' tell 'em

That's her baby boy

Her baby, yeah

Oh, he gangsta but he still my baby boy

Can you see it? Doin' life?

I'm thinkin' these **** don't wanna face that

Get up and get the scrilla, we chase that

And if I'm not here, who gonna make me?

Push through, body not bulletproof

Hollows come through the suit, rip 'em up

Now they on the pavement

His kids sleep in the hospital lobby, they waitin'

Not knowin' they daddy just left, he ain't make it

Yeah, can you picture it?

Would you do it again?

I wish he got another chance

Look, Red Dog got hurt on his soul

'Cause his son got whacked and he wasn't doin' nothin' wrong

Just graduated, now he in the zone

He finally made it, just eighteen years old

Just left the party, he on the way home

Woke up that morning, his lil **** gone

That was his baby boy

Chevonne got killed, got left in the house

God, why did they do that? I'm talkin' out loud

That shit hurt me, this a crazy world

For real

And for her mama, that's her baby girl

Her baby girl

Tell 'em if they ready, then come and take me, take me

All I got is God when my son look in my eyes

I tell lil Tredae, "You my baby boy"

Through these homicides, I can hear my momma cryin'

Say now, my baby

My baby, uh, uh

My baby

Police take my life, I know she gon' tell 'em

It's her baby

Her baby, yeah

Oh, he gangsta but he still my baby boy

(I'm talkin' to the Lord and I'm askin' God)

(Keep me safe, but I'm worried)

(Talkin' to the devil and now you tellin' me)

(That we should go and kill 'em first)

(Talkin' to the Lord and I'm askin' God)

(Keep me safe, but I'm worried)

(Talkin' to the devil and now you tellin' me)

(That we should go and kill 'em first)

That's my baby boy