"Grown man" bars

[hnic1978]

Now as I walk into the studio, to do this with Jig'

I got a phone call from one of my nigs

Said my homeboy Reek, he just lost one of his kids

And when I heard that I just broke into tears

And see in the second hand; you don't really know how this is

But when it hits that close to home you feel the pain at the crib

So I called mine, and saddened my wife with the bad news

Now we both depressed, countin our blessings cause Brad's two

Prayin for young souls to laugh atlife through the stars

Lovin your kids just like you was ours

And I'm hurtin for you dog; but ain't nobody pain is like yours

I just know that heaven'll open these doors

And ain't no bright side to losin lifel; but you can view it like this

God's got open hands homey, he in the midst.. of good company

Who loves all and hates not one

And one day you gon' be wit your son

I could've rapped about my hard times on this song

But heaven knows I woulda been wrong

I wouldn'ta been right, it wouldn'ta been love

It wouldn'ta been life, it wouldn'ta been us

This can't be life

Scarface.....This Can't Be Life

 

[hnic1978]

Mama put me out at only fourteen

So I start sellin crack cocaine and codeine

Time to stack some paper think I'm a do it quick

Thinkin I'm a juvenile but they dont know who they messin wit, yeah

My mama's only son

But I live everyday like its my muthafuckin last one

Every nigga and they mama askin why

But I'm in the game live by the game and in the game I'm a die

But if I die or should I say if I go

Bury me in Hiram Clarke next to the come and go

Cause tomorrow aint promised to me

The only thing promised to a playa is the penetentiary

So I'm a take care of my business on the smooth tip

Watch my back sellin crack and pack two clips

When ya think about that you say "it'll be on"

Its a trip youre here today but the next day youre gone

3-2....One Day

 

[hnic1978]

I'm up early cuz aint enough light in the daytime

Smoke two sweets get in these streets out the pop up line

Peanut holder my boulders smolder on the PA pipes

Ak loader as I get swallowed under city lights

Niggas be lookin shife so I look shife back

Cant show no weakness in these streets you'll get yo life jacked

Mayn its a trip where i stay especially for me

This bitches tryin to lock me up for the whole century

They gave my boy down in Florida Dante 19

I wish that we could smoke again and take a tight lean

My world a trip you can ask Bun B bitch I aint no liar

My man RoRo jus lost his baby in a house fire

And then when I got on my knees that night to pray

I asked God why he let these killas live and take my homeboy's son away

Man if you got kids show em you love em cuz God jus might call em home

Cuz one day you here but baby the next day you gone

Pimp C...One Day

 

[jono]

i remember she sit there with her thickness

never played a game but i heard about them sisters

a wise mister said love is gunna get ya

but that ain't what i read in the scriptures, god be with us

it was hard for me to take down the benches

i was tripping, i even called her sister

how could someone you could talk to, each and every day

that you 'bout to marry, be on their merry way

i'm singing through the pain like i was mary j

cause we break up to make up like mary kay

rumors leaving tumors on my heart now

we fell in love huh just to fall apart now

i get your calls and i try to disregard now

what was easy for us now is hard now

huh? who do it better, we used to move together

now we not together, is this our new forever?

---Common (Lovin I Lost)

 

[jono]

Dynasty album, track 16, listen scrap

I can't take back that sixteen

Shit the truth spoke, I gotta give the world true quotes

Can you feel it? I know the truth hurts

They say, "How can he disrespect his pop with harsh curses?"

Simple - harsh life, harsh verses

"I can't believe the mouth of this prick

He said put his mouth on his dick,"

I know we gotta talk bout that, I know you salt bout that

You on the tip like I don't like you

I got four kids, three baby mothers, I'm just like you

Sometimes I wanted to just fight you, shit

Swing on you - think I'm playin man, I'm just like you

I was a kid with a puzzle

with missing pieces tryin to put it together dawg, you put it together

You made me have to foot through the weather

in the storm with no raincoat

I don't only speak on me, I speak upon the kids in the same boat

Ridin the same water, same situation

Same fatherless daughter - I hate you, that's in your mind

Don't get caught up in the rhyme

You think I dissed you now, that I don't miss you now

Don't be a hater now, be glad I made it now

I know I probably rubbed you the wrong way

But fuck what the song say, for the record, check it

---Beanie Sigel (Still Got Love For You)

 

[SOWETO]

sticky

 

[jono]

Flashback to May with the weight of the world

Can't stop my girl from steppin'

Lookin' for affection in wrong places

My lesson to learn, the world turns

The early bird gets the worm

What if it's rotten while you rushin' for love and get burned?

Five kids that's my only concern

I was a father before I became a man

Society don't comprehend

Callin' me worthless, but I could purchase

What they purchase, but I understand

Behind closed curtains you workin' on being a man

Death scares me, but Jesus will prepare me

And hopefully repair me 'cuz God would want him to

Really really, ghetto media see the thug

Wash your sins, then it's true you can be born again

-Bizzy Bone (Nobody Can Stop Me Now)

 

[RuffDraft]

O.C. Prove Me Wrong:

When in doubt, life’s about chances

Wilted trees only grow new branches
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[jono]

When every neighborhood is an obstacle and two niggas making it out had never sounded logical/ three niggas making it out that's mission impossible so I never believed the type of performance that I could do, I wasn't jealous of the talents they got, I was terrified they would be the last black boys to fly....out of Compton.

----Kendrick Lamar (Black Boy Fly)

 

[goldenja]

you couldn't tell me nothing back then

but now I feel ya

-scarface

 

[deathrowzorrow]

I never brag, how real I keep it cause it's the best secret - Nas

 

[CP203]

calm down and 10 minutes by joe budden

 

[moyo]

Grown men don't beg for attention. -Khujo Goodie

 

[[Trillmatic]]

Selling drugs doesn't equate to "grown man shit".

No one said it did.

 

[[Trillmatic]]

Why they gotta open your package and read your mail?

Why they stop letting niggas get degrees in jail?

Why you gotta do 85% of your time?

And why do niggas lie in 85% of they rhymes?

-kiss

 

[[Trillmatic]]

We gotta hold our head, keep our pride

Though it hurts when I see people sleep outside

Little babies with no socks on, eatin popcorn

We all know what they moms and they pops on

-kiss

 

[jono]

"At the age I am now if I can't teach, I shouldn't even open my mouth to speak"- Chuck D (Rltk)

 

[Big James]

God or guns what's better protection?

can't decide that's a hard one.

-Nas

 

[Mister B.]

We need more Phonte....

Up early with the sun, and the stars, 6 A.M. ring the alarm

Weather man say "it's 90 today but it gon' feel like 100 tomorrow

So throw some fresh water under the arms"

Bullshit soon as I come in the job

Boss hit me with the news like a box-cutter under the jaw

Said "they just had a meeting and about 3 hundred

Of y'all gettin fired cuz we been defunded"

Can't say I didn't even see it coming

I always knew that one day, they'd find a way to throw me to the wolves

And once they, came into my room on that Friday afternoon I was thinkin

"why you faggot ass niqqas couldn't find me on Monday"

I know it's not sane, but yo I'm just sayin

Everybody prays for the day they see the light

But the light at the end of the tunnel is a train

5 dollar gas, and poverty rates, are rising much higher than your hourly rates

So if you thinkin 'bout quittin you should probably wait

Cuz everybody gotta do a fuckin job that they hate

"Go and live out your dreams" thats what they tellin

Fam in my ear all day and they yellin

"Keep it real Te", and don't ever sellout

But how the fuck you sell out when ain't nobody sellin?

-The Good Fight from his solo album "Charity Starts At Home"

 

[Mister B.]

By the way, this song shuts the thread down...