I remember shoot outs over necklaces 

little debbie breaksfasts 

Growing up in the projects, life stinks 

drinking fifths of hennessy to forget my misery 

Struggling out here in these streets 

Barely living in this world 

and this world is just so hateful 



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It's just so hateful 

the kids are so ungrateful 

and I'm no longer able to disguise my disgust 

And I know they're saying 

we should trust the lord will come and help us 

and maybe i'm just being selfish but I've had enough 

But when my song comes on the radio 

i forget all my troubles 

and for one moment I'm not there at all 

No matter where in my life I am that's my jam 

Said when my song comes on the radio 

I forget all of my troubles 

and for one moment I'm not there 



I remember fighting with my babysitter 

Life without no father figure 

Searching for my daddy's killer, life stinks 

Working jobs that I don't like 

Cussing out God every night 

For giving me this awful life 

and it dont stop cuz this world 



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Yo I done been in a lot of street fights 

Got a hood stripes but I aint immune to pain 

whether you are seventeen, balck, white, gay, straight, or a lesbian 

we all go through the same thing on one level or another 

you never had a dad, had a part time mother 

you had a good girl but you was too gutter 

mommie got a man now but you still love her 

some things just fall apart like some words break your heart 

even if you dont admit it sometimes i the back of your mind 

you really want to fall down and cry and never get up 

but you gotta get up cuz you gotta pay bills even though you feel like a loser 

but you aint a loser you God's child and cant nothing move ya 

but when my song comes on the radio 

i forget all of my troubles 

for one moment i'm not there at all 

no matter where in my life i am 

thats my jam, thats my jam 

when my song comes on the radio 

i forget all of my troubles 

and for one moment i'm not there at all 

no matter where in my life i am 

thats my jam