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  • It's the gift and the curse
  • First they love me then they hate me
  • Then they love me again
  • They love me again
  • Let's take a trip down
  • I gotcha
  • Let's take a trip down memory lane at the cemetery
  • Rain gray skies, seems at the end of every
  • Young black life is this line, "Damn, him already?
  • Such a good kid," got us pourin' Henn' already
  • Liquor to the curb for my niggaz up above
  • When it cracks through the pavement that's my way of sendin' love
  • So, give Big a hug, tell Aaliyah I said
  • "Hi 'til the next time I see her, on the other side"
  • He was just some thug that caught some slugs
  • And we loved him 'cause in him we saw some of us
  • He walked like us, talked like us
  • His back against the wall, nigga fought like us, damn
  • Poor Isis, that's his momma name
  • Momma ain't strong enough to raise no boy, what's his father name?
  • Shorty never knew him though he had his blood in him
  • Hot temper, momma said he act just like her husband
  • Daddy never *****ed with him, so the streets raised him
  • Isis blamin' herself, she wish she coulda saved him
  • Damn near impossible, only men can raise men
  • He was his own man, not even him can save him
  • He put his faith in her, thirty eight in his waist
  • But when you live by the gun you die by the same fate
  • End up dead before thirty eight and umm
  • That's the life of us raised by winter, it's a cold world
  • Old girl turned to coke, tried to smoke her pain away
  • Isis, life just ended on that rainy day
  • When she got the news her boy body could be viewed
  • Down at the City Morgue, opened the drawer, saw him *****
  • Her addiction grew, prescription drugs, shift and brew
  • Angel dust, dipped in woo
  • She slipped into her own fantasy world
  • Had herself pregnant by a different dude
  • But reality bites and this is her life
  • He wasn't really her husband though he called her wife
  • It was just this night when, moon was full
  • And the stars were just right, and the dress was real tight
  • Had her soundin' like "Lisa Lisa, I wonder if I take you home
  • Will you still love me after this night?"
  • Mike was the hard head from the around the way
  • That she wanted all her life, shit she wanted all the hype
  • Used to hold on tight when he wheeled on the bike
  • He was a Willie all her life, he wasn't really the one to like
  • It was a, dude named Shy who would really treat her right
  • He wanted to run to the country to escape the city life
  • But Isis like this Broadway life
  • She loved the Gucci sneakers, the red green and whites
  • Hangin' out the window when she first seen him fight
  • She was so turned on that she had to shower twice
  • How ironic it would, be some fight that
  • Turned into a homicide that'll alter their life
  • See Mike at thirty two was still on the scene
  • Had a son fifteen that he never saw twice
  • Sure he saw him as an infant, but he dissed on him like
  • "If that was my son, he would look much different.
  • See I'm light skinned and that baby, it is dark
  • So it's, momma's baby, poppa's maybe."
  • Mike was still crazy out there runnin' the streets
  • Had an older but light with thirty eight gun in his reach
  • It's been fourteen years, him and Isis ain't speak
  • He runnin' around like life's a peach 'til one day
  • He approached this thug that, had a mean mug
  • And it looked so familiar that he called him Young Cuz
  • Told him, get off the strip but the boy ain't budge
  • Instead he pulled out a newer thirty eight snub
  • He clearly had the drop but the boy just paused
  • There was somethin' in this man's face he knew he seen before
  • It's like, lookin' in the mirror seein' his self more mature
  • And he took it as a sign from the Almighty Lord
  • You know what they say about he who hesitates in war
  • He who hesitates is lost
  • He can't explain what he saw before his picture went blank
  • The old man didn't think he just followed his instinct
  • Six shots into his kid, out of the gun
  • Niggaz be a father, you're killin' your son
  • Six shots into his kid, out of the gun
  • Niggaz be a father, you killin' your sons
  • Meet the parents

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