The Real MVP (feat. John Legend)

Yeah 'Sup (All my real niggas be the same) Oh Yeah (20-20 hindsight, you just gotta do today, ya'know?) Uh Do you hear me? It's crazy Oh, sometimes I don't know where I'm turning to I look in the mirror and I see the truth But the truth is I don't know what to do now I'm so lost without you Truth is, yeah I wish I was better I was chasing the cheddar I ain't take the time to write you a letter I was too busy chasing the funds I ain't take the time out to take a day and just be your son Middle school, yeah, I got me a pack Yeah, I got me a sack Daddy gone, so I pick up the slack Lord knows that you need a new couch And if I had it my way now, I'd buy you a house If you gon' stay here, be watchin' your mouth Then what I do? Turn around and hid them eight balls all in your house (Damn) Safe to say I was breaking the rules I was posted on Poplar Street, pocket full or rocks and a tune No secret, I was failing the school Had you cryin' so much late at night that you could fill up a pool What's Heaven when you're living in Hell? DA hoping I fail, so they can lock me up and give me a cell (Hey) Sometimes I don't know where I'm turning to I look in the mirror and I see the truth But the truth is I don't know what to do now I'm so lost without you With my hopes and my dreams on the scale All I know is all these hard times keep making you frail (Ayy) And maybe I'm just chasing a dream or maybe caught in the hype We got faith, then we gon' be alright That mean we gon' make it tonight, we gon' live tomorrow Grind it up, no beggin' or borrowin' (Nah) And lately you been all on my mind, spending all of my time Tryin' not to go out of my mind (Yeah) And lately I been having my strap 'Cause I don't know which one of these so-called niggas got my back Just know that you raised you a king, I might live all my dreams (Believe that) Despite the fact that it's hard as it seems, yeah I know you see me rockin' the crowds, hope I'm makin' you proud God plans, He heard you pray for your child (Yeah) And even though I'm feeding my team and I'm doin' my thing Gotta say, all hail to the Queen, hey I don't know where I'm turning to I look in the mirror and I see the truth But the truth is I don't know what to do now I'm so lost without you And last, my Mom I don't think you know what you did You had my brother when you were 18 years old Three years later, I came out The odds were stacked against us One of the best memories I had Was when we moved into our, our first apartment No bed, no furniture, and we just all sat in the living room And just hugged eachother 'Cause we, that's what we, we thought we made it When something happens to you I don't know about you guys But I tend to look back to what brought me here You made us believe, you kept us off the streets Put clothes on our backs, food on the table You went to sleep hungry, you sacrificed for us You the real MVP I look in the mirror and I see the truth But the truth is I don't know what to do now I'm so lost without you