[00:04.22]Uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah
[00:08.56]What up, son?
[00:11.55]Yo
[00:14.49]It was one-two-one-seven
[00:15.79]Two-zero-zero-seven
[00:17.36]Fresh out of pretty woman
[00:18.87]A rebel woman
[00:20.35]Another proud brown bloodline, baby
[00:22.65]Been wanting to be a daddy your beautiful mama made me
[00:26.16]Trials and tribulations
[00:27.39]Months anticipatin'
[00:28.97]Trying to stay afloat and raise you on a bank statement
[00:31.77]Not good enough for a college kid
[00:33.22]While staying positive
[00:34.38]“Yo, how you living bam?”
[00:35.91]“Just on my grind and ****”
[00:37.42]Double shifts to put some health in ya life
[00:39.83]A roof to call your home
[00:41.40]Blanket for you at night
[00:42.91]To real dad’s, the real man, through working class hands
[00:45.55]Yeah, its hard to live with a whole system on your back
[00:48.55]Not built for you to win in
[00:50.21]Struggle or go to prison
[00:51.54]Insomniac, worry about passing that to my children
[00:54.71]**** it, I’m making pancakes
[00:55.94]I’m on my pop ****
[00:57.49]Yo this a song for us dads
[00:59.31]Go head and knock this
[01:00.48]I work hard for a dollar man
[01:02.04]Just like my pops
[01:03.37]I keep through it keep it moving homie
[01:04.79]Just like my pops
[01:05.86]That **** tough tryna maintain
[01:07.51]Just like my pop
[01:08.84]**** was trouble so behave
[01:10.49]I blame this **** on ma pop
[01:12.23]I work hard for a dollar man
[01:13.71]Just like my pops
[01:14.74]I keep through it keep it moving homie
[01:16.44]Just like my pops
[01:18.00]That **** tough tryna maintain
[01:19.33]Just like my pop
[01:20.55]**** was trouble so behave
[01:22.29]I blame this **** on ma pop
[01:23.68]My dad
[01:24.85]Always on my ass about a job
[01:26.66]Here’s a thanks in a song
[01:28.11]Hopefully we move on
[01:29.53]Never heard him say “I love you” but I felt it in life
[01:32.17]Running round our neighborhood trying to find my stolen bike
[01:35.39]With a .38 special in his jeans
[01:37.60]They respected pops on my street at 87 OG
[01:41.07]Shoot-outs in the middle of Mariposa
[01:44.26]He come through when mom call him, like “goddammit Jonah”
[01:47.40]For some **** I did wrong
[01:48.91]Mom passed that belt but nothing ain’t hurt me more than when he left
[01:52.13]I felt like if my pops only showed me that he cares when I’m bad
[01:56.21]Then **** it, I’ll be bad
[01:57.29]Affection from my dad in a beat down
[01:59.57]“Pop look at me now, hope I make you proud
[02:02.68]That you gonna see now”
[02:04.19]See now
[02:05.30]Let’s leave it in the past
[02:07.82]Help me try and teach your grandson to be a man who
[02:09.92]Work hard for a dollar man
[02:11.37]Just like his pops
[02:12.51]Get through it keep it moving homie
[02:14.22]Just like his pops
[02:16.14]**** tough tryna maintain
[02:17.91]Just like his pops
[02:19.30]**** is trouble so behave
[02:20.75]Blame that **** on his pops
[02:21.79]Work hard for a dollar man
[02:23.52]Just like his pops
[02:24.98]Get through it keep it moving homie
[02:26.28]Just like his pops
[02:27.52]**** tough tryna maintain
[02:29.02]Just like his pops
[02:30.23]**** is trouble so behave
[02:31.83]Blame that **** on his pops
[02:33.77]But how much longer can I blame it on my pop?
[02:35.85]Old man struggle with some **** to keep me off of that rock
[02:39.20]And it worked, so though I might talk a little ****
[02:42.19]I’m glad that my dad was dumb strict
[02:43.65]And coupled with the violence in the house
[02:45.82]It was rough so minus all the violence in my house
[02:48.61]Imma bring up
[02:49.62]A brown little down little filipino soldier
[02:52.25]Who’s already made his daddy proud about a million times over
[02:55.96]Took a non-violent parent class
[02:57.83]Fatty food, cutting back
[02:59.22]Daddy tried to raise me with a punch—we ain’t doin that
[03:01.81]I know you got a temper like me and your gramps
[03:04.77]So I’m tryna get you focused when you amped
[03:06.85]So now it’s about me leading by example
[03:09.20]Working out my issues and my issues with with you mama
[03:11.79]While you little from a playground runnin’ to a schoolyard cupping son
[03:16.53]You can tell me anything
[03:17.98]No judgement just
[03:19.95]Work hard for a dollar man
[03:21.35]Be like your pop
[03:22.36]Get through it keep it moving homie
[03:24.12]Just like ya pop
[03:25.43]**** tough tryna maintain
[03:26.86]Just like ya pop
[03:28.39]**** is trouble so behave
[03:29.84]Hey, hey
[03:30.62]Work hard for a dollar man
[03:32.42]Be like your pop
[03:33.63]Get through it keep it moving homie
[03:35.29]Just like ya pop
[03:36.63]**** tough tryna maintain
[03:37.93]Just like ya pop
[03:39.33]**** was trouble so behave
[03:40.85]Blame that **** on ya pop
[03:42.41]I get down on them pancakes
[03:44.03]Sick witht he chicken strips
[03:45.64]Mac and cheese mac, homie
[03:47.20]I’m a dad, I take care of my kid
[03:50.86]I know its tough but i’m saying grab hold of your kid cause
[03:54.94]Somebody in the world lost a son today
[03:59.23]I’m saying somebody in the world lost a daughter today
[04:05.62]Somebody in the world lost a son today
[04:11.69]I’m saying somebody in the world lost a daughter today