[Intro Haystak] Yeah This for all my people that grew up being told That they would be dead in the penitentiary Its about time they were grown And then you wonder why? They got depression, selfesteem, anxiety issue... you know? After so long you start to believe it check, check [Verse 1 Haystak] I recall everything I was told Boy youll never live to be 18 years old Dead or incarcerated just like those People who wander down similar roads Leavin out the house, she said please dont go! Granny why you stay tryin to, save my soul? If death is my destiny, like you had said to me Let me get busy before he gets the best of me! Dont you know bullets dont have no brain? And a lot of youngers dont have no aim? Am I livin or dyin somebody please explain? Goin or stayin, because Im going insane? Im strapped up cause he is, sheisty cause she is Meanwhile a dude who teach chemistry is In his office with a kid doing shit I get expelled for Which makes me wonder why people go to jail for it? [Hook Haystak] Even if I did die young, so what? Nobody expected me to ever grow up Grandmama lectured me you better grow up But there wasnt no telling me I was a grown up! Even if I did die young, so what? Nobody expected me to ever grow up Grandmama lectured me you better grow up But there wasnt no telling me I was a grown up! [Verse 2 Haystak] Im a kid peeping in justice yall let slide But youre so quick to, point out mine Thats what made me draw that line Blinded by my own desire Im doing fine No, Im not Im doing bad, but Im so afraid to talk Yall got shit going on, I dont wanna bother yall Pops cut from a different cloth never be the man he was Thought I was slow, I turned out to be a genius! And I aint returned like, eat my peanuts Let our bank statements be the difference between us If I seem distant, bitch Im 30 something I was suppose to been done been a murder victim! My grandpa prayed till his knees gave way If you cant save me, God, please save Jason The way I went in, thats the only explanation I know some bad dudes enough to know I aint one! [Hook Haystak] Even if I did die young, so what? Nobody expected me to ever grow up Grandmama lectured me you better grow up But there wasnt no telling me I was a grown up! Even if I did die young, so what? Nobody expected me to ever grow up Grandmama lectured me you better grow up But there wasnt no telling me I was a grown up! [Verse 3 Haystak] I was confused, and you can hear it in my rhetoric In retrospect, I never should have made it back I wrote my Senator and never got a letter back My friend Chris got killed for a Cadillac My man Mike died for a powder pack So understand why I could think that I was next Under attack, guns and crack Or the motherfuckin police shoot us in the back! And ah, they think it only happens to blacks And refuse to believe it almost happened to Stak Stabbed in the back Blood beating threw a heart filled with crack Soldier up! Fought through that! Injuries a lot of players dont walk off I walked off cause I aint the type to walk on If youre family youre suppose to love me when Im wrong Be a man, and represent me when Im gone! Stones in the foundation get looked over But without them, the whole damn house falls over! This is for the rocks that exist beneath me The block which gave me, a past to be me BBs are baby bullets, babys are in training My people were bangin, before they called it bangin Just chillin, hangin, words exchange One thing lead to another, all I heard was [gun shot]... [Hook Haystak] Even if I did die young, so what? Nobody expected me to ever grow up Grandmama lectured me you better grow up But there wasnt no telling me I was a grown up! Even if I did die young, so what? Nobody expected me to ever grow up Grandmama lectured me you better grow up But there wasnt no telling me I was a grown up!
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