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Genre
Charts
Peak #16
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
that's word
Rights
that's word 2007
Uploaded
November 13, 2007
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MP3 1.9 MB • 128 kbps • 2:02
Lyrics
NOW I know why people do drugs.
Why they sniff that powder
Why they hit that vein
I see why baby mama will take the last bit of her welfare check and (Puff)... just to maintain.
Is welfare supposed to help me fare well?
$650 a month won't even pay my rent! What the hell?
So she buys diapers and some soap,
and begs the rent man for 2 more weeks... Two weeks...
Too weak to take this sh*t another month!
She (puffs)... I'll figure it out in 2 weeks....
Phone cut off, car broke down, and baby mama doin what she can...
Now I ain't sayin its ok to smoke weed, but... I understand.
Lil Eric grew up on the wrong side of town,
where all the deals go down,
and even the cops don't come around.
His mama's a whore and he's the man of the house...At 12 he's the man of the house...
That is, until 9 when there's another man in his house
And at 11, another man in his house...
They want him to watch, but he turns his back,
Pretty soon he turns to crack.
He can't control his house
so he takes his life in his own hands.
Now I'm not sayin it's ok to smoke crack...
but lil man, I understand.
Raised by grandma Mary in a house full of boys,
Toya wasn't like your typical girl.
She didn't wear dresses or play with Rainbow Brite,
not knowing that rainbows would soon make her life not-so-bright...
So a secret she kept til Uncle Joe found out
and decided to show her what a man was all about.
Broken and scared, angry and impaired,
Lil Miss Toya still loved women, but now she HATED men.
She needed a hero or heroine, but all she found was heroin.
It wasn't just about gettin high
It was about gettin by
Now I know why people do drugs, man
And I'm not sayin it's ok..., but I understand.
© that's word 2007
