Family Matters

[Verse 1]
Now you can listen to my story
But my story ain't much different
From hustlers they can't be foamy
Like them folks are started bitching
Coke and weed to get my cheese
'Cause I too was on a mission
To be rich and have them bitches
That I seen on television, see I
I had envisioned dreams
To be like niggas I had seen on television screens
That be hella freakin' clean
I mean the least to me
So I was pushin' white and purple
Ignorin' the lessons I had learned from watchin' Steven Urkel
See, Steve was my favorite boy and all the others
'Cause Steve was nerdy but he had a good head on his shoulders
So as a kid he taught me values but then I got older
And startin' hatin' on the kids that was something like Steve
And for that matter anybody that wasn't like me
[?], got the best of me I suppose
So my mind was closed, wanted diamonds and clothes
But I was lookin' through garbage, tryna find me some gold
I knew better, I remember, something my parents had told me

[Chorus]
They say the days go by
And one day you'll look back
If you don't open your mind
You gon' be wishin' you had
You see, they say the days go by
And one day you'll look back
If you don't open your mind
You gon' be wishin' you had

[Verse 2]
So thank you Mom and Dad
For the advice you given
But I don't give a damn
And I ain't tryna listen
Well, that was the way I treated wisdom
Like bitches and hoes, that was the way I treated women
See I was raised muslim and my grammar school was christian
But money was like my God and hustlin' was my religion
So if they made a couple Gs, then I made a couple more
I just wanna double up 2, like the number 4
But I was fuckin' up, doing wrong, losing friends
But emotion was the main thing I ain't wanna show
I started drinkin' more, that fucked up my digestion
I started smokin' more, but then I congested
I started hustlin' more, but then I got arrested
[?]
[?], I wasted all my cheese
When I got up my girl hugged me and she bought me food
My friends was happy to see me, my mama said it too
They held me down, even know I was actin' a fool
Happily after, I learned that family matters, it's true

[Chorus]
Now I know days go by
And one day you'll look back
If you don't open your mind
You gon' be wishin' you had
Now I know days go by
And one day you'll look back
Yeah, if you don't open your mind
You gon' be wishin' you had

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