[00:18.78]How come I can't do what **** I want do?
[00:22.28]How come, how come?
[00:23.47]Tryna get this skraight, no damn hot comb through
[00:26.98]How come, how come?
[00:28.17]Weavin' through the naps, dreams been on hold
[00:31.30]Since my cradle hit the flo
[00:33.78]Tender head, my denim skrong
[00:36.75]Yea, yea, yea, yeaaaaaah
[00:37.85]Remember when I was a kiddo, growin' up in the middle
[00:40.09]Windows lining my smile, silver teeth underneath my pillow
[00:42.82]A nigga had a nappy head like a Brillo pad
[00:44.90]Sister said I need to do somethin' about them beedy-beed naps
[00:47.85]Snackin' on Andy Capp's with a pickle and a quarter water
[00:49.95]Walked in the barbershop asked me what I wanted
[00:52.13]I told that man I wanted to look like Superman
[00:54.06]But when he had the long hair
[00:55.61]You know, kinda like Michael Jackson?
[00:57.26]The damn barber just started laughin'
[00:59.02]I cried as he gave me that bald fade
[01:00.88]Afro puffs hit the flo', symbolic of sheddin' my innocence
[01:03.62]I guess I thought they were magicians or alchemists or mathematicians
[01:07.22]With algebraic, calculus algorithms designed to cure me of my nappiness
[01:10.70]Like a perm burned off my happiness
[01:12.41]I sat silently acquiescent
[01:13.86]Pitfalls of adolescence
[01:14.93]Spitballs and scrabble sessions and tattle-tales
[01:17.20]Playing around in the hallway like one of Santa's elves
[01:19.36]"You wanna go to jail?"
[01:20.55]"Hell naw, mister security!"
[01:21.96]Got sent to the principal for my potty mouth
[01:23.85]Talkin' bout some, "give me your number so we can call the house"
[01:26.00]But gimme got shot, so the ink stainin' my record now
[01:28.89]You pull a comb thru my afro, that shit'll crackle
[01:30.67]Like a bowl full of Rice Krispies
[01:31.87]Rollin' my innocence in a cigarillo like
[01:33.66]How come I can't do what **** I want do?
[01:36.90]How come, how come?
[01:38.03]Tryna get this skraight, no damn hot comb through
[01:41.56]How come, how come?
[01:42.74]Weavin' through the naps, dreams been on hold
[01:45.96]Since my cradle hit the flo
[01:47.98]Tender head, my denim skrong
[01:51.18]How come, how come?
[01:52.02]How come I can't say what **** I want say?
[01:55.47]How come, how come?
[01:56.69]Tender braids, but I can't make my eyes rain
[02:00.16]How come, how come?
[02:01.40]Yanked straight from my naps, dead on my comb
[02:04.55]When my cradle hit the flo'
[02:06.91]Tender head, my genes on swole
[02:09.41]Yea, yea, yea, yeaaaaaaah
[02:10.79]I don't wanna sing the Star-Spangled Banner
[02:13.11]Unless it's produced by David Banner
[02:14.74]Elbows on the lunch table, eatin' on a gravy sammich
[02:17.52]Lil' nigga, no table manners
[02:19.33]Crazy it attracted shawty's
[02:21.22]On the back of the bus gettin' neck had a knack for noggin'
[02:23.30]Lil' nick at nighttime
[02:25.45]Googlin' booty, beauty illusions polluted and deep-rooted in my mind
[02:28.98]My block was a Rubix
[02:30.07]Anywhere you turned, the shit was hot around the clock
[02:32.10]And they could not ice cube it, damn
[02:34.04]Mama, I don't like this school shit
[02:35.95]**** a logarithm, I'll log into the music, damn
[02:38.69]Daddy, I don't like this school shit
[02:40.90]I beat the desk until my knuckles bleed
[02:42.91]All my teachers think I'm challenged mentally
[02:45.13]But my mental skrong, know who I wanna be
[02:47.49]Instantly began a surgery
[02:49.97]Bada-bing, Voila!, made wings wit the words, Hallelujah, Yah bitch, Yah!
[02:52.74]All my blessings came when I accepted I'm not y'all
[02:55.81]I been put it down the line like laundry
[02:58.16]They told me find something more concrete
[03:00.72]Now a lil' nigga breakin' concrete
[03:02.78]Praises to God I ain't no convict
[03:05.01]They'll never take away my confidence
[03:07.07]How come I can't do what **** I want do?
[03:10.07]How come, how come?
[03:11.25]Tryna get this skraight, no damn hot comb through
[03:14.80]How come, how come?
[03:15.94]Weavin' through the naps, dreams been on hold
[03:19.03]Since my cradle hit the flo
[03:21.42]Tender head, my denim skrong
[03:22.44]How come, how come?
[03:25.22]How come I can't say what **** I want say?
[03:28.81]How come, how come?
[03:29.93]Tender braids, but I can't make my eyes rain
[03:33.44]How come, how come?
[03:34.63]Yanked straight from my naps, dead on my comb
[03:37.63]When my cradle hit the flo'
[03:40.16]Tender head, my genes on swole
[03:43.48]Yea, yea, yea, yeaaaaaaah
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