I Always Knew - Bishop Lamont

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

Besides a fuck up, drop out, my mother’s disappointment

Broke with no employment

Hope rarely visits so the ghetto get’s avoided

Necessity the mother of invention

Dad’s missin'

So I guess that makes it father too

A hair pick couldn’t show you what I been through

Hell and back

Then back again

Matter of fact

That’s my point of origin

Never see Heaven

Only felt the flames

Wonder why God ain’t come when I used to call his name

But I was off the hook, my phone, He felt the same

Bad service

We got disconnected

See I’m livin' life

Life ain’t livin' me

Fuck the negative, I switched the polarity

Made lemonade with every lemon handed me

Rap wasn’t plan A

It was plan C

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

From the hood, Hollywood to the big screen

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

From the bus stop bucket to a Bentley

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

Even when my teachers used to say I wouldn’t be

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

Block star to rock star, momma look at me

See you wanna be a rap star

I just wanna be happy

And know my momma’s proud when she look at me

Raised in the dirt nigga

Barely watered still grew like a Redwood

Stronger even harder

I lot of niggas I knew and know didn’t make it

Struck down on the block

Struck out and got locked

Strung out on that rock

The way of the world crushed they dreams

Rewrote they scenes, re-casted they roles (Damn)

What a fucked up world, I know

Got you feelin' like God ain’t watchin'

God ain’t listenin'

Life’s so parallel to Hell you hear the Devil gigglin'

I remember at times, gettin' so drunk out my mind

Watchin' the night sky, wonderin' where we go when we die

The homie Zack has a scuffle at the liquor sto'

Fell back, cracked his skull, coma, he ain’t here no mo' (rest in peace)

Now every soul that we lost, that’s what I’m livin' fo'

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

From the hood, Hollywood to the big screen

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

From the bus stop bucket to a Bentley

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

Even when my teachers used to say I wouldn’t be

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

Block star to rock star, momma look at me

Single parent home livin'

All I ever knew

No Huxtable shit, no Pudding pops to get me through

Just my momma

And my brother

Then he had to move for awhile we ain’t see each other

Used to hate my father

For what he did to momma

Used to see her cry when she died

Fuck my father

Said he’d come and visit

No show, didn’t bother

Bags packed, he didn’t call back, man fuck my father

Had my hopes up

And never showed up

It’s no surprise if we bad fathers when we grow up

But I was just a baby

Couldn’t understand

Nobody’s perfect, you wasn’t perfect, you was just a man

Then I became a man

See you every time I take a look in the mirror

How could I hate you?

Wouldn’t be here without you

And through it all I love you pops

And I’ma shine for you

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

From the hood, Hollywood to the big screen

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

From the bus stop bucket to a Bentley

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

Even when my teachers used to say I wouldn’t be

I knew I was gonna be somethin'

Block star to rock star, momma look at me

Look at me! Yeah! Motherfuckin' high school drop out nigga.

Hehehe. I love it. Hi to all my teachers and shit. Let’s keep it movin' though.

Real is all I can give you nigga. Real is all you should ever want nigga.

Let’s go deeper. I give you my life. I give you my soul.

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