Able to do for my loved ones is real success
Our lives in the hands of politicians that don't care
Couldn't waste your pearls on swine ma, you taught me better
I'm never gon' forget how you raised me, I love you, forever
I lose touch and sometimes I feel that life sucks
You've taught me the wrong from the right, mama I love you
What I drink, what I smoke, who I be with
With not enough answers and too many questions
Through the bullets and the bad times I've been blessed
No matter how much these streets try to change me
I can't complain through the years mama I've been stressed
She wanna talk I just sit there with nothing to say
I can't stress enough no matter what, mama I love you
Used to cook, clean, and sing me to sleep
I know you watching me, guiding me
You in the right place but left me at the wrong time
You've always been there by my side
Raise and protect my own, until they full-grown
Yesterday was your fifty-ninth birthday
I can't stress enough no matter what, mama I love you
Responsibility bringing out the man in me
Will I forget you? Never
You ain't a man if you're not taking care of home
I still feel the same pain since the first day
Another branch we can add to the family tree
For the times that I fail but I tried my best
You made sure I got some love when there wasn't none
When you had me you gave birth to a soldier
Feel me, it's all the pain I contain on the inside
Even though I know it's been tough
Fun an' games, I'm doing thangs, I know you wouldn't agree with
I can't stress enough no matter what, mama I love you
But I've learned so much with so little time
The family's so spread out an' disconnected
Even though I know it's been tough
From the ground up with my own hands
Trying to hold things together put my soul on records
The school of hard knocks where I learned life's lessons
This for my mother, rest in peace
You've always been there by my side
You can feel your roots and see how strong we are
You've taught me the wrong from the right, mama I love you
We ponds in the game biological warfare
To you and yours, yeah, ride with me, come on
Yeah, all the mothers, all the daughters, yeah, come on
One last embrace and face to face wit you
Your little grandson is just like your little boy
A beautiful baby girl just another little piece of you
I've been through so much
Mama what you built here no man can ever destroy, your bundle of joy
Now I'm much older, now the world much colder
You can't protect me or expect me to not struggle an' fight
Opened up my heart showed the world where I'm coming from
It's hard, you know your daughter had a baby too
Your the source of my strength I was blessed with your gifts
Who would've thought we could get this far? Damn I miss you
Now I only go to bed with my heat, damn I miss you
'Cause see death is a part of life
You've always been there by my side
My woman try to get close I push her away
Now I'm surrounded by the best of my kind, we pulled it all together
Down right angry sometimes that we ain't here together
Listen you was thirty-two I was only nine
Even though I know it's been tough
Time flew missing you in the worst way
What I wouldn't give for one more day wit you
You've taught me the wrong from the right, mama I love you
Explain everything that made me what I am a grown man
You left to death on God's request
I know from up there it's like you watching 'Menace to Society'
Your insights, your wisdom, your penmanship
