Grow Up - King Lil G.mp3

[00:09.17]Good morning boys and girls
[00:11.14]You over there in that black shirt
[00:13.37]What you wanna be when you grow up?
[00:16.61]My mother worked two jobs, gang banging was too raw
[00:19.42]1993, I was bumping some of that Snoop Dogg
[00:22.41]Murder was the case , my uncle caught a case
[00:24.83]My grandmother stressing out, I could feel her pain
[00:27.38]Acting older than I was, I should have been acting my age
[00:30.30]I had to walk to school, I got recruited to the gang
[00:33.13]My mother tried to do her best, on minimum wage
[00:35.74]But it was hard when I seen the drug dealers in the range
[00:38.70]Such a bad example, she didn't even know it
[00:40.97]I truly needed my father with me, you need to know it
[00:43.72]You need to know it, cause I need someone to be heroic
[00:46.49]Someone to motivate me when I wanna be a poet
[00:49.30]I truly think that I can be the shitst, maybe noticed
[00:52.49]Never losing my focus, but you ruined the moments
[00:55.08] shit was hard in my apartment, roaches and old, carpets
[00:57.86]I'mma enemy target, matresses by the garbage
[01:02.43]I know it's hard to grow up (grow up)
[01:05.41]I know it's hard to grow up (oh)
[01:07.96]But it's time to grow up (grow up)
[01:10.65]I know it's hard to grow up (oh)
[01:12.15](But everybody gotta grow..)
[01:13.75]But it's time to grow up (grow up)
[01:15.03](But everybody gotta grow..)
[01:17.27]What you wanna be when you grow up?
[01:18.92]I wanna be a mother****ing hustler, you better ask somebod
[01:22.62]Yo, I wish my father never met that woman
[01:25.22]Broke my family up, you should have ****ing left that woma
[01:27.91]I was eating cereal, my mama cried to sleep
[01:30.58]Remember the kisses I gave you on the side of your cheek?
[01:33.35]I made some promises, that I will make accomplishments
[01:35.90]And I became a criminal, please accept my apologies
[01:38.66]I'mma get you out this, show these rappers what time it is
[01:41.26]Buy you the car you needed, and have somebody to drive you in it
[01:45.05]My mama held my hand, standing at the bus stop
[01:47.43]Gave me the love I needed, the streets, covered in gun shots
[01:50.36]Stop making excuses, and stop going to prison
[01:52.74]Cause people forget about you when people don's even visit
[01:55.87]This is for my young homies, thinking there's no way out
[01:58.53]Throwing your life away, living broke, that shit is played out
[02:01.75]OG's tell me stories 'bout life in the pen
[02:04.49]A dark cell, homies lost, doing shit
[02:14.05]I know it's hard to grow up (grow up)
[02:16.78]I know it's hard to grow up (oh)
[02:19.56]But it's time to grow up (grow up)
[02:21.14](I know it's hard to grow up)
[02:22.34]I know it's hard to grow up (oh)
[02:23.70](I know it's hard to grow)
[02:25.22]But it's time to grow up (grow up)
[02:26.56](But everybody got, everybody gotta grow up..)
[02:34.71]And if you fall, get back up
[02:37.35]And just remember, everybody gotta grow up
[02:40.19]And if you fall, get back up
[02:42.73]And just remember, everybody gotta grow up
[02:46.06]Grow up, Grow, everybody gotta grow up
[02:51.93]Everybody, everybody gotta grow up
[02:55.83]Believe me homie, you can make it