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?
