The Way I Grew Up

Suggestin' that Ima white kid means I earn a lot You think I got a big house, and I'm smoking lots of pot You say 'I don't need a job, I got lots of the money' But my shoes were too bunk I couldn't pick up the honeys Now everybody believes that I got it hella easy Stealin' in the super market, ain't gotta be sleezy And classes were breezy, cause teachers believed me When I said I couldn't do my homework weekly Once I became a grad, I felt like I was complete But little did I know I had to get to my feet I got kicked out quickly, like nobody missed me I took a left turn shit, I must've been tipsy Damn I'm confused, like I'm standing on a brick wall Lookin' both ways, don't know which way to fall So now that I'm on my own, Ima need a bit of luck Don't blame me, that's just the way I grew up That's just The way I grew up Sometimes it's so hard to win, it's the happiness within No matter how hard it gets, I can always tell a friend And they can lift me up, when I'm sittin' on the ground Lookin' left to right for something around me Myself, yah It's me, myself, and I And when things be lookin' down, I just look up at the sky Lines on my paper, what's written on my journal Lookin' just as good as the paintin' of my mural Can't get shot by the police cause the color of my skin Take a closer look and please do not chime in I put it down for my city, and what it represents I don't a big house or a white picket fence It was always a little rough, you know it was tough I remember back in the days when I always had enough Now that I'm on my own, Ima need a bit of luck I better rely on the days and the way I grew up