| Ya know, right now, whatever you smoke | |
| Right now 'cuz they ask me, and they ask me | |
| And they ask me, they ask me | |
| Now they ask me, | |
| How you know so much at 17 | |
| What you mean? | |
| You never seen a disfuctional teen | |
| Mama cared for me, papa wasn't there for me | |
| Older brother sold dope and murph blurr for me | |
| Times got hard | |
| I had to get harder | |
| Let me take that back | |
| I had to get smarter16, | |
| I had me a daughter | |
| Hold up J- | |
| Kwon let's get shit in order | |
| Baby mama that's a whole another story | |
| Both too young, both too horney | |
| Cell phone rung, but | |
| I didn't anwser | |
| Check my voice mail, my grandma got cancer | |
| Now she layin' up in a old folks home | |
| When it seamed like yesterday she was home | |
| A month later stroke poped up her brain cells gone | |
| The last thing she said was let no one steer you wrong, | |
| I'm grownThey ask me, do | |
| I believe in | |
| GodSo I ask them, did | |
| I defeat the odds? | |
| They ask me, do | |
| I believe in | |
| GodSo I ask them, did | |
| I defeat the odds? | |
| Shit fucked up but | |
| I can't turn away now | |
| Sold dope around the town, self esteem way down | |
| Jessie made me tougher, he boxed me up | |
| My mama put me in the system, she locked me up | |
| Now this around the time that we lived on | |
| HanleyWhen | |
| I think about it | |
| I don't know none of my family | |
| Except, for the immediate ones | |
| Tha's why | |
| I run to the streets and the jennings hand guns | |
| He don't talk much so everybody wanna fight him | |
| Every school | |
| I went to nobody liked him | |
| Never could it be right, | |
| I'd try sometimes | |
| So I chilled by myself and cry sometimes | |
| And all I ask from | |
| Gods to buy sometime | |
| Would I bring his name in it | |
| If I was lyin' | |
| Now look at what the fuck | |
| I did, done | |
| Terry Jones last son, this is a blessing, | |
| I'm grownThey ask me, do | |
| I believe in | |
| GodSo I ask them, did | |
| I defeat the odds? | |
| They ask me, do | |
| I believe in | |
| GodSo I ask them, did | |
| I defeat the odds? | |
| Now they ask me, how you know so much at 17 | |
| What you mean | |
| You never seen a disfuctional teen | |
| Times got harder | |
| I had to get harder | |
| Let me take that back | |
| I had to get smarter | |
| They ask me, do | |
| I believe in | |
| GodSo I ask them, did | |
| I defeat the odds? | |
| They ask me, do | |
| I believe in | |
| GodSo I ask them, did | |
| I defeat the odds? |