Better use your head before you lose it
Two ways out the streets and you can't choose it
Couldn't talk about it but I knew it
If you can't do the time then don't do it
I can't ever like them break me
Thank my mama 'cause she saved me
But the streets really made me
Like a beast, couldn't tame me
Tried to tell me but I had to learn the hard way
I was really trying to get it in the hallway
Trying to make the choppa sing like broadway
Looking back on it, I really came a long way
Sorry
Kiss my daughter like I'm sorry
From the jungle no safari
The streets ain't a game like Atari
My bro gave me a bird and I flew it
I was down and out, going through it
Planted my first seed then I grew it
Didn't think I would succeed but I knew it
Seen it all coming like the weatherman
Don't compare me to no n**** that I'm better than
Only 20 and I move like I'm a veteran
I was right there when they found the evidence
Better use your head before you lose it
Two ways out the streets and you can't choose it
Couldn't talk about it but I knew it
If you can't do the time then don't do it
I can't ever like them break me
Thank my mama 'cause she saved me
But the streets really made me
Like a beast, couldn't tame me
That's the problem in our community man
Black man is in prison or dodging prison and his kids suffer
It's the anger in the black man, the cycle of hate
You're in that cycle little brother, did you grow up with your daddy?
No