[00:15.88]Yo **** rapping & bragging about the way you ballin'[00:19.00]Spray cans in my backpack and I was starvin'[00:21.55]In middle school with a trey five-seven revolver[00:24.17]My family said I wouldn't make it, now i'm grindin' hard[00:26.72]I dedicated this to the kids growin' up with no father[00:29.21]Believe me I know what you goin' through I almost lost it[00:31.82]Ever seen a teenage boy whose feelin' like robbin'?[00:34.45]That was me at 14, I was driving through compton[00:37.00]On my way to inglewood I was thinkin' of nonsense[00:39.35]Somebody tagging on the wall so I had to go cross it[00:41.99]********** I had guns in my mother's closet[00:44.30]The day she caught me, tear drops started falling[00:47.20]Then she slapped me in the face[00:48.38]Looking brokenhearted[00:49.69]How the **** do I explain that my hood is stronger[00:52.22]Enemies is lookin' for me 2 in the morning[00:54.68]It's been about the 2 weeks and she still ignores me[00:57.35]I'm ******* up so much as hate, that is building towards me[00:59.85]She's on the phone with my fam saying I'm disappointing[01:03.68]Saying I'm disappointing[01:05.78]Oh man, I'm a disappointment[01:08.18]As I sit all alone with pain[01:12.15]I wonder - will I ever see my mother smile?[01:14.55]I wonder - will I ever see my mother smile?[01:18.40]Am I ever gonna see that day[01:22.10]We stop strugglin'[01:24.15]Will I ever see my mother smile?[01:25.00]Strugglin', yea..[01:27.32][01:27.40]Yo, would you like to know why I was so troublesome?[01:30.25]That eviction notice on my door ,ade me hustle drugs[01:33.05]I seen my mother crying[01:34.05]1999[01:35.00]My father left us behind[01:36.27]My feelings empty inside[01:37.78]I try to not miss 'em[01:39.05]Me & my older sister[01:40.50]Carina please tell 'em bout that ****** up christmas[01:42.88]I had to go to school lying to my friends[01:45.05]Pretending I was happy bout some **** I didn't get[01:47.93]Fake smiles through the whole winter[01:49.75]I was cold wearing old clothes and socks with holes in 'em[01:53.55]Gang members I was close with 'em[01:55.33]I was just a kid[01:56.40]They was asking me to do some coke with 'em[01:58.69]I was broke, man I rather sell some **** with 'em[02:01.17]Road trips to the border to go get 'em[02:03.75]Young & hopeless[02:04.55]Trying to get in to show biz[02:06.05]Hoping they would give me a chance[02:07.50]Nobody noticed[02:09.55]As I sit all alone with pain[02:13.29]I wonder - will I ever see my mother smile?[02:16.05]I wonder - will I ever see my mother smile?[02:19.68]Am I ever gonna see that day[02:23.45]We stop strugglin'[02:24.88]Will I ever see my mother smile?[02:26.35]Strugglin', yea..[02:29.87][02:31.25]Oh man, you know what really trips me out is that uh..[02:35.90]People really think I owe them somethin'[02:38.40]You know I hear people talkin' all the time[02:42.00]But its like they don't know the struggle and the **** we gotta go through to get to where we are right now (but I don't owe them a damn thing)[02:47.68]I had to sacrifice so much time, you know[02:51.55]Had to put my family trough so much pain[02:56.00]It's like everything that I got right now, I owe it to the family[03:01.70]Finally my mother can smile now[03:07.55]Oh yeah