Yo fuck rapping and bragging
About the way you balling
Spray cans in my backpack
And I was starving
In middle school
With a trey five-seven revolver
My family said I wouldn’t make it
Now I'm grinding hard
I dedicated this to the kids
Growing up with no father
Believe me I know what you going through
I almost lost it
Ever seen a teenage boy
Whose feeling like robbing?
That was me at 14
I was driving through Compton
On my way to Inglewood
I was thinking of nonsense
Somebody tagging on the wall
So I had to go cross it
Muthafucka I had guns
In my mother's closet
The day she caught me
Tear drops started falling
Then she slapped me in the face
Looking brokenhearted
How the fuck do I explain
That my hood is stronger
Enemies is looking for me 2 in the morning
It's about the 2 weeks
And she still ignores me
I'm fucking up so much as hate
That is building towards me
She's on the phone with my fam
Saying I'm disappointing
Saying I'm disappointing
Oh man, I'm a disappointment

As I sit all alone with pain
I wonder
Will I ever see my mother smile?
I wonder
Will I ever see my mother smile?
Am I ever gonna see that day
We stop struggling?
Will I ever see my mother smile?
Struggling, yeah

Yo, would you like to know
Why I was so troublesome?
That eviction notice on my door
Made me hustle drugs
I seen my mother crying
1999
My father left us behind
My feelings empty inside
I try to not miss 'em
Me and my older sister
Carina please tell 'em
'Bout that fucked up Christmas
I had to go to school
Lying to my friends
Pretending I was happy
'Bout some shit I didn't get
Fake smiles
Through the whole winter
I was cold wearing old clothes
And socks with holes in 'em
Gang members I was close with 'em
I was just a kid
They was asking me
To do some coke with 'em
I was broke
Man I rather sell some dope with 'em
Road trips to the border to go get 'em
Young and hopeless
Trying to get into showbiz
Hoping they would give me a chance
Nobody noticed

As I sit all alone with pain
I wonder
Will I ever see my mother smile?
I wonder
Will I ever see my mother smile?
Am I ever gonna see that day
We stop struggling?
Will I ever see my mother smile?
Struggling, yeah

Oh man, you know what really trips me out is that uh..
People really think I owe them something
See I hear people talking all the time
But it's like they don't know the struggle
And the shit we gotta go through
To get to where we are right now
(but I don't owe them a damn thing)
I had to sacrifice so much time, you know
Had to put my family trough so much pain
It's like everything that I got right now, I owe it to the family
Finally my mother can smile now
Oh yeah