"Da Cycle" lyrics
I remember an OG told me, you know some kids are raised
And other kids are just allowed to grow up
And then they have kids and allow them to grow up
But never showed them or told them that the world is bigger than their neighborhood, you know
Then they find themselves looking out their project window singing the same old song
All I ever seen was rain, mmmmm
All I ever felt was pain, mmmmm
I'm staring out the window, all I see is police
On my way to school, I see blood on the streets
Daddy was a gangster, so that's what I want to be
Because when you are a kid, you just repeat what you see
And all I...
Momma never been to clubs
But daddy was a thug
Daddy sold drugs
Momma was a church girl, daddy was the plug
Opposites attract, so they both fell in love
She wobble when she walk, now she seven months pregnant
Daddy going crazy, he excited about his baby
Feds came down, now daddy locked up
And now a son is born and never felt his daddy's touch screaming
All I ever seen was rain, mmmmm
All I ever felt was pain, mmmmm
I'm staring out the window, all I see is police
On my way to school, I see blood on the streets
Daddy was a gangster, so that's what I want to be
Because when you are a kid, you just repeat what you see
And all I...
The feds took her lover
Victim to the system, she is now a single mother
The feds took the house, the feds took the cars
Froze all the accounts, now she forced to get a job
Moved to the hood, section eight living
It hurt her pride to move around these noisy ass bitches
She trying to survive, busy trying to provide
She don't realize that she ain't spending time with her child
So he turns to the streets
Picking up habits from every nigga he meet and everything he see
His dogs popping molly, now he on one
His dog caught a body, now he want one
And his daddy calling home, telling him that he wrong
He like, how the fuck you gon' be a daddy over the phone?
Man, I'm grown
And I don't know who convinced you
That you know anything about the shit that I done been through, nigga
All I ever seen was rain, mmmmm
All I ever felt was pain, mmmmm
I'm staring out the window, all I see is police
On my way to school, I see blood on the streets
Daddy was a gangster, so that's what I want to be
Because when you are a kid, you just repeat what you see
And all I...
Now he out here thuggin'
Toting mops, sliding on opps like it ain't nothing
Told his momma that he in school, knowing he wasn't
Post up selling cocaine, him and his cousin
Told his momma that he got an after school job
But he really in the trap down the street selling hard
Ran up a budget, dropped Forgis on a Cutlass
Swing the block bumping 2Pac, them hoes love it
Now he cruising late night on the turnpike
Got pulled over, man, them crackers thrown on them lights
They pulled him out the whip and they searched his shit
Popped the trunk and they found 2 bricks and a stick
And he called his old lady and she broke down crazy
'Cause she just found out that she was pregnant with his baby
He took a plea deal, they gave him thirteen years
Now he doing his son the same way his daddy did him screaming
All I ever seen was rain, mmmmm
All I ever felt was pain, mmmmm
I'm staring out the window, all I see is police
On my way to school, I see blood on the streets
Daddy was a gangster, so that's what I want to be
Because when you are a kid, you just repeat what you see
And all I...
And other kids are just allowed to grow up
And then they have kids and allow them to grow up
But never showed them or told them that the world is bigger than their neighborhood, you know
Then they find themselves looking out their project window singing the same old song
All I ever seen was rain, mmmmm
All I ever felt was pain, mmmmm
I'm staring out the window, all I see is police
On my way to school, I see blood on the streets
Daddy was a gangster, so that's what I want to be
Because when you are a kid, you just repeat what you see
And all I...
Momma never been to clubs
But daddy was a thug
Daddy sold drugs
Momma was a church girl, daddy was the plug
Opposites attract, so they both fell in love
She wobble when she walk, now she seven months pregnant
Daddy going crazy, he excited about his baby
Feds came down, now daddy locked up
And now a son is born and never felt his daddy's touch screaming
All I ever seen was rain, mmmmm
All I ever felt was pain, mmmmm
I'm staring out the window, all I see is police
On my way to school, I see blood on the streets
Daddy was a gangster, so that's what I want to be
Because when you are a kid, you just repeat what you see
And all I...
The feds took her lover
Victim to the system, she is now a single mother
The feds took the house, the feds took the cars
Froze all the accounts, now she forced to get a job
Moved to the hood, section eight living
It hurt her pride to move around these noisy ass bitches
She trying to survive, busy trying to provide
She don't realize that she ain't spending time with her child
So he turns to the streets
Picking up habits from every nigga he meet and everything he see
His dogs popping molly, now he on one
His dog caught a body, now he want one
And his daddy calling home, telling him that he wrong
He like, how the fuck you gon' be a daddy over the phone?
Man, I'm grown
And I don't know who convinced you
That you know anything about the shit that I done been through, nigga
All I ever seen was rain, mmmmm
All I ever felt was pain, mmmmm
I'm staring out the window, all I see is police
On my way to school, I see blood on the streets
Daddy was a gangster, so that's what I want to be
Because when you are a kid, you just repeat what you see
And all I...
Now he out here thuggin'
Toting mops, sliding on opps like it ain't nothing
Told his momma that he in school, knowing he wasn't
Post up selling cocaine, him and his cousin
Told his momma that he got an after school job
But he really in the trap down the street selling hard
Ran up a budget, dropped Forgis on a Cutlass
Swing the block bumping 2Pac, them hoes love it
Now he cruising late night on the turnpike
Got pulled over, man, them crackers thrown on them lights
They pulled him out the whip and they searched his shit
Popped the trunk and they found 2 bricks and a stick
And he called his old lady and she broke down crazy
'Cause she just found out that she was pregnant with his baby
He took a plea deal, they gave him thirteen years
Now he doing his son the same way his daddy did him screaming
All I ever seen was rain, mmmmm
All I ever felt was pain, mmmmm
I'm staring out the window, all I see is police
On my way to school, I see blood on the streets
Daddy was a gangster, so that's what I want to be
Because when you are a kid, you just repeat what you see
And all I...
