[TMD]

Here we go.. yo.. whassup?

I got a story to tell, yaknahmsayin?

Yo, it's talkin about this family.. yaknahmsayin?

They kinda caught up, but yo

I want y'all to check it out as I kick a lil somethin like this



Yo once upon a time lived a family of all black

They used to live middle class, yo happy and all that

But then, until when like yo who would believe

yo that pops was the hooker, moms was the crackfiend

with no 9's to 5's to survive in the real world

And as for the little girl, and cousin named James Earl

They had to make ends meet, startin from scratch B

While pops hold the cash, moms is gettin smashed in the den

And I be sittin thinkin yo like when

this madness would like stop, this crazy shit would end

So yo I'd spend (what) many many moons in my room

Look just chillin by myself and no one else cause I was like shook

by this rotten scandalous, low-life dirty work

Then moms and pops they gazed thinkin shit I was really hurt

So what shall I do?

With this major problem, cause I don't have a clue



Damn, I can't believe it

Uhh, and ya don't stop, I can't believe it

Yo - I can't believe it!

Yo, I can't believe it



Cause I remember when my parents used to stress that fact

That if you smoke crack that it be hard for you to comeback

to your normal self but now she's messin up her health, y'know

pawnin jewels and things and sellin sweaters off her shelf

Now hold up a second see, wait just a minute

Now don't say that this smokin crack shit's a epidemic

but now I guess it is cause my moms is caught up in it

But if I seek for help, do you think she'd be like widdit?

Nah hell naw, cause she be on missions for crumbs like bums

Moms is now strung, so now we stay up in the slums

Uptown, while pops is turnin tricks like a clown

And deep inside my heart I wish my parents like slow down

you know, and give it all a rest

Cause everyday I think about it yo it has me stressed

every whichaway but still I maintains my studies

A shadow is my buddy cause my parents don't hug me



Damn, I can't believe it

And ya don't stop, I can't believe it

I can't believe it

Aiyyo, I can't believe it



Yo..



Now here we go

Now what's the matter pops, gettin sweated by the cops

for standin on the corner, you're bound to be a goner

yo one of these days, but still you needs to clock your dough

Even if that means desertin your family to be a giga-hoe

But yo, I'm tryin to get this shit

Yo why there's no food on the table, and yo, who's payin the rent?

While James Earl was thievin on the banks

with homemade shanks, tryin to scuffle up his rank

But I can't, go out that way, so yo I pray like everynight

to God that he let my cousin see the light, right

But still, they all needs to chill

and all come correct, and maintain some self-respect

And not neglect, the one who loves them dearly

with all of my heart (no lie) no lie, sincerely

But one day soon I hope my family'll wake up

and like smell the coffee brewin, brewin

before their lives is ruined



Uhh, yo, I can't believe it

I just can't y'know, I can't believe it

Uhh, I can't believe it



Now as for myself it's kinda hard to not give a heck

about my parents and cousin who's really bein ignorant

As I strive to be all I can be and more see

A senior in high school, and man it ain't easy

With problems at the crib, plus teachers be expectin

me to do well, in these times that are hectic

But I needs to focus on my family first

on gettin us back together, cause the shit is gettin worse

and worse, it's really terrible

Way out of hand, and damn I don't understand

Why is all of this here, happenin Samantha

I always asked myself, but never had an answer

I wonder - one day, would things ever get better

with me my moms and pops and my cousin back together

Some say never but when I sleep I'm always dreamin

It's really scary to say cause damn man, y'know,

I can't believe it

Yo check it, I can't believe it

I just can't, I just can't, aiyyo, I can't believe it

Word up, I can't believe it

Yeah..