Dear Mama

[Intro]
She really, really, really, stayed on that stuff, no matter what, like we never really went without
I never met my real father. Like a day in my life I didn't know him

[Verse 1]
Yeah
As I, sit all alone in my 4 corner room with these plaques on the wall now
The same way that I did when I sat in the hole and you was the only one to answer when I called out
When they hit me with the petition I really hated you for it cause I didn't understand what it's all about
Let me wind up dead? Nah, now you up in Red Rocks looking at your baby rocking large crowds
Because we all fall down like the Kanye song or the ash from the blunt smoking all day long
And to compound, didn't know how to deal with my anger, then we all drown in the storm, think about it when you can't calm down
Kinda like a sing-along, got the bottom of the [?] how the ball bounce (big facts)
And I ain't talking weed at all but it's funny how I'm King of y'all, got the palm out (it's a wrap)
We didn't understand mental illness back then, something mom's gotta talk 'bout
Can't rely on that white lady with her chalkboard when this little black nigga's getting chalked out
You wasn't gon' let me die in a jail or a ward, and you could've just walked out
Remember when I signed my deal at the party, dude who tripped on you almost got socked out
Besides Sarah dying, worst pain I ever felt was you and I having a falling out
Boy, no game and they keep it real I think you and Tiff got a few things to talk out
You tell me how to make things happen on my own I take accountability for what I caused, wow
There's no way I could ever pay you back so here's a letter to my hero that I jot down, I call it "Dear Mama"

[Chorus]
(Dear Mama) Dear Mama
(Dear Mama) Dear Mama
(Dear Mama) Dear Mama
I call it Dear Mama (Ain't no way I can pay you back, so 'fore I fade to black)
Dear Mama (I want you to play this back and know I'm always thinking of you)
Dear Mama (Ain't no way I can pay you back, so 'fore I fade the black)
Dear Mama (I want you to play this back and know I'm always thinking of you)

[Verse 2]
I learned how to be independent from you, then I signed with the biggest independent and boom
I would sit in my room with a pen and depending on who was around I would get in the mood
Just to jot down my life while I listen to music, they said I was gifted well then I'mma use it (what?)
This to help everyone listening to it, kinda why Pac is my biggest influence
Life could've been ruined, we lived in the ruins
Grew up 'round killers who crip and they ruin
Play tug of war but they get to lay choosers
Coming home high and off liquor abusing
More money's [?called mechanisms to cool it?]
Spannable causes I wouldn't get to school in, but what I really needed was attention from you
It hurts to think about it, it's mentally bruising
If anybody disrespects you, really they stupid
My baby mama's did it almost ended up shooting
You love my new lady, I'mma give her a few kids
She givin' [?] me strawberries while she giving me cool whip
Overlooking the ocean while we laughing and talking about some tripping that you did that [?] a Ruth Chris
Residuals grew then, I'll give you a few M's, consider me Jigga gotta give them the blueprint
Mama was into black panther 'bout to go kill monger
Everybody's saying my mama was a drill sergeant
They take advice and made an army and they still marching
Cleaned up and got up pop a pill, I was a pill popper
Get to the root of the trauma is how you heal proper
Then catch me outside 'cause I don't feel doctors
You raised me to be a man and I still prosper
I know it's hard what you did it, that's why I'm saying Dear Mama

[Chorus]
(Dear Mama) Dear Mama
(Dear Mama) Dear Mama
(Dear Mama) Dear Mama
I call it Dear Mama (Ain't no way I can pay you back, so 'fore I fade to black)
Dear Mama (I want you to play this back and know I'm always thinking of you)
Dear Mama (Ain't no way I can pay you back, so 'fore I fade the black)
Dear Mama (I want you to play this back and know I'm always thinking of you)

[Outro: King Iso & Tech N9ne]
No way I think back, so before I fade the black
I want you to play this back and know I'm always thinking of you
No way I think back, so before I fade the black
I want you to play this back and know I'm always thinking of you
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