just beginning (where i'm from)

Singer:game, the

sometimes i wonder

man

how long is it gon' be for my people to come out

man we strugglin

it's hard sometimes

but

tomorrow's better than yesterday

uhh

i was

born in the slums

struggled from day one

ray charles vision

blinded by the light from the sun

no navigation

no sense of direction

darker complexion

made it hard to live; dad

how you fathered your kids?

stranded on the highway of life

left us out to die

left us out to dry

shhhh

i'm still here

my mother's cries

nigga no father figures make harder niggaz

through the years

went to war with niggaz from what i saw in the picture

now your son is bigger

13

but just like you

moms said i would grow up and be just like you

from what you did to my sister she disliked you

sixteen

eleventh grade

look at me just like you

gunnin for riches

runnin hoppin project fences

street corners to arizona

how i earn my digits

and i'm far from finished

gamin 'til my coffee diminish

why pray for the afterlife when mines just beginnin

huh

only son by our mother

no brothers

only sisters by this one

every time i kissed one i missed one

let me explain

eight years before the game

everything came with pain

watch the fate of my family slain would never see good times a-gayn

cursed with pain by a nigga with no shame

my father

that have the same name as his father

my grandfather wouldn't believe

he pulled up our family tree

i can see him rollin over in his coffin

i'm left with often

thoughts of how could you molest your daughter

they say that's ten times worse than manslaughter

man you oughta

be dead in a grave

but it wasn't my call

so instead you sat in a cage

high-powered

two-hundred and fifty pound

six-five coward

woulda been dead in an hour

heard you was scared to take a shower

scared of the yard

your end is near

you shoulda been scared of god

motherfucker