Big, big

Big, big

Rollin' up, smokin' a pre-roll blunt

Stuck like concrete on the streets so much that we left a footprint on the cement

Some of us that had flowed, others went off the deep end, no CBR, not like our

Every day doin' hard drugs, stuck inside of a time warp

Who's next on the fight card?

Bunch of crazy-ass white boys showin' off they knife scars

Runnin' from the ice squads

Drivin' GTs, showin' off they got the candy paint

Polis, at the pink pony, R.I.P

Polis, wearin' track pants, runnin' from the lab dance

Better have some fast hands, guarantee

Finance is gonna catch up with you, ain't no peace

Rioters, too many shooters, let more puppies bleed

Modernists, now they some flatlands, endin' to the last dance

Better not shop at centers

Another lists go, another sick go, just to see the shit close down

All I'm seein' is the lease sign, yeah

And all I'm hearin' is police signs

Someone's got to be high, people out of work, out of burst

They take a pill now to perk, slowin' down, I heard

That they feel, tryin' to fill a prescription, and is it really first?

It wasn't an addition, but it's gotten worse

Driver drunk, gettin' stopped to search

Bunch of pills in his possession, to the position of snitchin'

Started talkin' to the officers

On house arrest until they caught him takin' off his ankle monitor

I'm not proud of these stories, that's just how we were

A shady past that we had that is now a blur

But that's how we were raised, I reached a older age

I never thought I'd see the day, 'cause

That's how we grew up

That's how we were raised

That's how we got stuck

With these evil ways

Like we needed drugs

Just to be okay

That's how we grew up

That's how we were raised

'Cause that's how we grew up

That's how we were raised

That's how we grew up

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And the song speaks, "Please cook, ray, any minute"

Got turned out, got burned, now they testin' you for AIDS at the clinic

Get a bag of free rubbers, chrome stains on the seat covers in a '83 Cutlass

She be discussin'

Keep chuggin' 'til there ain't no vodka left

We were young teens, fuckin' on a waterbed

Puff a tree underneath the apartment steps

Stealin' from the department stores, land of the breakin' into cars

We get charged with theft

To armed robberies, take the weapons you had and add them to the armed armory

Played the rowdy when there was action, Sean Connery

In all honesty

All around we did create a camaraderie

Doctor said that it was right, this a life of drug addiction

All the days and nights inside of a homeless, bug-infested

Feel the roaches and the fleas, ain't no grown-up said to keep tabs on us

Bunch of teens, no one overseas

Parents separated, my mama workin' night

My homie's parents didn't care where they were, a try

To hide the family like a remedy when they weren't in sight

They on a search for love they bottled of the hurt inside

A turn to drugs, a turn to crime, even worse, they died

Burned in an urn, top beneath the dirt in line

I can't turn the time back but I can learn from mine

Mistakes I made and why I got this introverted side

Watchin' porn tapes at eight, my perverted mind

Gettin' pressured into sex as an early child

Mama hit me with a paddle, when the cousin with a whip

Sister coverin' her ears 'cause she heard the cries

Stealin' Dad's wild turkey from the cabinet

Havin' sex on some parent's bed 'cause they weren't in town

Another story from the past, it's a blur in time

From an uncertain, un-perfect life

That's how we grew up

That's how we were raised

That's how we got stuck

With these evil ways

Like we needed drugs

Just to be okay

That's how we grew up

That's how we were raised

'Cause that's how we grew up

That's how we were raised

That's how we grew up

With these evil ways

Like we needed drugs

Just to be okay

That's how we grew up

That's how we were raised

N-G-C-G-A