[J-Kwon talkin' over music]



Ya know, right now, whatever you smoke,



Right now cuz they ask me, and they ask me,



And they ask me, they ask me







[Verse 1]



Now they ask me 



How you know so much at 17



What you mean?



You never seen a disfuctional teen



Mama cared for me 



Papa wasnt their for me



Older brother sold dope and murph blurr for me



Times got hard I had to get harder



Let me take that back I had to get smarter



16, I had me a daughter



Hold up J-Kwon lets get shit in order



Baby mama thats a whole nother story



Both too young both too horney



Cell phone rung, but I didnt anwser



Check my voice mail, my grandma got cancer



Now she layin up in a old folks home



When it seamed like yesterday she was home



A month later stroke poped up 



Her brain cells gone



The last thing she said was let no one steer you wrong, I'm grown







[Chorus]



They ask me, do I believe in God



So I ask them, did I defeat the odds



[2x]







[Verse 2]



Shit fucked up but I can't turn away now



Sold dope around the town, self esteem way down



Jessie made me tougher, he boxed me up



My mama put me in the system, she locked me up



Now this around the time that we lived on Haley



When I think about it I don't know none of my family



Except, for the immediate ones



Thats why I run to the streets and the gennies hand guns



He don't talk much so everybody wanna fight him



Every school I went to nobody liked him



Never could it be right



I'd try sometimes



So I chilled by myself and cry sometimes



And all I ask from Gods to buy sometime



Would I bring his name in it If I was lyin'



Now look at what the fuck I done, done



Terry Jones last son, this is a blessing



I'm grown







[Chorus]







[Bridge]



La, la, la, la, la, la, la



Now they ask me how you know so much at 17



What you mean



You never seen a disfuctional teen



La, la, la, la, la, la, la, woah



Times got har I had to get harder



Let me take that back I had to get smarter







[Chorus]