where have you been

Singer: jay-z

damn how am i gonna say this shit?

hey. hey dad

yeah it's your boy

remember me? i wanna talk to you scrap

i remember being kicked out the house

'cause i looked just like you

said i'd be nothing but a crook

just like you

the niggaz in the hood was shook

where the just like you

'cause all they said was little whitey look

i'm just like you

but dog i can't see it at all

shit

we never kicked it at all

we never pitched or kicked at a ball

dog

you never taught me shit

how to fight

ride a bike

fix a flat

none of that sorts of shit

nigga you was an abusive pops

fuck you left me out to dry

stuck

gotta teach news to box

gotta teach news to bop

and that aint the half of it man

i gotta teach news to block

it's about time we have a father to son

sit down let me tell you 'bout your fatherless sons

how they grew to be men and father they sons

father they daughters

nigga

you left a fatherless daughter

i never follow your orders

nigga you make me sick

pussy you could.ooh

how you gonna leave these memories in the back of my mind

i can see it clear as day you smackin my mom

i 'member that day you showed me that gat

that 9

put it in my palm when i was young

and said that would be mine

you turned me out

the reason why i hit the block

reason why i tried to hit them cops

reason why i started hittin shots

reason why i started gettin licked

and drinkin syrup and skippin court

ginger bread man never think of gettin caught

look at your hand man damn you fought

nigga you left my mom

left us with no good-bye's

you left us out to dry

you left us with no letters

notes

no replies

no digits numbers was unlisted

you left us with some of my loneliest night

nigga some of my hungriest nights

shit

one of the reasons for years

damn we used to think money was white

yeah you gave us life like

fruit from a plant

we aint eat right from them foods from them stamps

and to think you was my pop

man i gotta stop shit

daddy

where have you been?

and when you come home

you got us here all alone

mommy

where daddy went?

you always stick up for him

always said you'd make up for him

mommy

what happened then?

what was you cheatin on him?

why he's always beatin' on you?

daddy

where have you been?

nigga

you gonna hear me out

i wanted to walk just like him

wanted to talk just like him

often momma said i look too much

and i thought just like him

wanted to drink miller nips

and smoke newports just like you

but you left me

now i'm goin to court just like you

i would say my daddy loves me and he'll never go away"