hopeless boy

yo fuck rapping & bragging

about the way you ballin'

spray cans in my backpack

and i was starvin'

in middle school

with a trey five-seven revolver

my family said i wouldn't make it

now i'm grindin' hard

i dedicated this to the kids

growin' up with no father

believe me i know what you goin' through

i almost lost it

ever seen a teenage boy

whose feelin' like robbin'?

that was me at 14

i was driving through compton

on my way to inglewood

i was thinkin' of nonsense

somebody tagging on the wall

so i had to go cross it

muthafucka i had guns

in my mother's closet

the day she caught me

tear drops started falling

then she slapped me in the face

looking brokenhearted

how the fuck do i explain

that my hood is stronger

enemies is lookin' for me

2 in the morning

its about the 2 weeks

and she still ignores me

i'm fucking up so much

as hate

that is building towards me

she's on the phone with my fam

saying i'm disappointing

saying i'm disappointing

oh man

i'm a disappointment

as i sit all alone with pain

i wonder

will i ever see my mother smile?

i wonder

will i ever see my mother smile?

am i ever gonna see that day

we stop strugglin'

will i ever see my mother smile?

strugglin'

yea. yo

would you like to know

why i was so troublesome?

that eviction notice on my door

made me hustle drugs

i seen my mother crying

1999

my father left us behind

my feelings empty inside

i try to not miss 'em

me & my older sister

carina please tell 'em

bout that fucked up christmas

i had to go to school

lying to my friends

pretending i was happy

bout some shit i didn't get

fake smiles

through the whole winter

i was cold wearing old clothes

and socks with holes in 'em

gang members i was close with 'em

i was just a kid

they was asking me

to do some coke with 'em

i was broke

man i rather sell some dope with 'em

road trips to the border to go get 'em

young & hopeless

trying to get in to show biz

hoping they would give me a chance

nobody noticed

oh man

you know what really trips me out is that uh. people really think i owe them somethin'

see i hear people talkin' all the time

but its like they don't know the struggle

and the shit we gotta go through

to get to where we are right now

i had to sacrifice so much time

you know

had to put my family trough so much pain

its like everything that i got right now

i owe it to the family

finally my mother can smile now

oh yeah