Where I'm from

Where I’m from is not to be taken lightly
It gives me the fighting spirit I have been born from
It makes me remember what I was torn from....

Let me explain

Where I'm from is heartbreaking and desolate

I used to rep with it
Give life and breath to it

Where I'm from the extension of a punch to a face had me embrace the truth of my youth the blue of my booth the square of mine too
Star of David not making sense but making sense
To a way to win
A grown up truth I should never had to see
A place no one should ever have to be

Physical and mental abuse
it’s why and how I can reach the youth how I can preach to you
Why I can preach to you

How I've reached my truths
why I feel the use

Where I come from I was gang related
Ceanie flipped sides to rip tides
Holding a gun to his life
To them lives
Bopping and weaving to get to this life

Where I’m from no fucks are given 
Its the way we sinned in....the way we sin in
Condemnation forgiven but it’s the doubt that I still live in

Where I’m from my sickle cell was a hidden truth

I hid from you
I hid to prove

Where I’m from does not dictate who I become

Who I was once
how success was won

Where I’m from
Grades don't equal money 
the sky is never sunny and I’m getting grazed by bullets that are coming for me

Where I’m from 
Dance hall queen rained in the range
thug life had me

forced me to take the olive branch of change

My sister getting locked up had me change
Me raising babies not born of me had me change

Where I’m from I try to forget 
But that don’t mean shit memories never die. ..I have died many times
But the fire awakes me
it paralyzes me and shakes me
It makes me turn around so I wont forsake me

Where I’m from Abba has won
It took a long time but given his son
Was not a pun
So be grateful for this crazy hor

Yes im a hor....you can’t ignore cuz i pimp and traffic in dreams

I need my team
So germaphobic i need an iv of pisces
Aries laying on my dreams
Things are never what they seem

Where im from I was told im never gonna be ish
Never have supreme wit
Never have a man want to be to me……it...

Where im from i used to water it down
No one could take me at 100 percent but i flip this brick and then flip that ish

I knew what trap housing was before it became the ish

I knew what running drugs was before it became legit

I knew what turf wars was...the guts of dudes laying with my clique

Im talking too much

Let the closet hold the bones
But i can’t be at home and 
Have these youth grow if i can’t show where and how far I can go
Where i had to go
How i am forever damaged because of where i had to go

Where im from the people are dripped in bitter past

with there bitter ass

Where I’m from
everybody want to be hood rich
get a hood chick you can never be really real with

Where I’m from I’m spose to be dead
Im not spose to wear red
Im not spose to have said

Where im from...shit..i was on the block with some lorkin 22 grip
A blade on my tongue tip and a blunt on my full  lips

Trying to stave off the reality of real ish
The legality of it
To become a butterfly from the capterpiller

Where im from i will never forget. Won’t ever forget

wont ever

Forget.....

Where im at is twisted around and safety sounding
but i made my rounds in order to be here to show you

you can be here to show you
you can be here

To put you on to how i got here...where im from made me this
Its crazy but i have risen to it

Can you?