所属专辑:VYP - Voice of the Young People
歌手: Lil Mama&Yirayah
时长: 04:00
College - Lil' Mama[00:00:00]
Now that I think about it[00:00:01]
I was always takin away from my father[00:00:03]
Or he was always takin away from me[00:00:06]
It's probably why we so close now[00:00:08]
Ya know[00:00:10]
We been starving so long in these crazy ghetto streets[00:00:11]
And they say we're so wrong for the way we try to eat[00:00:16]
How long will he struggle[00:00:22]
I gotta grind just to eat now[00:00:24]
I gotta eat just a lil now[00:00:27]
So I gotta live my life this way[00:00:29]
I stretched and yawned[00:00:32]
4 years from a newborn[00:00:33]
On a charter bus[00:00:34]
Filled with stranged humans[00:00:36]
Besides my mother nobody seems anxious[00:00:37]
Though we on our way to visit a college campus[00:00:40]
We roll up freshen up at a food concession[00:00:42]
Can't talk to strangers[00:00:45]
I wanna ask em questions[00:00:46]
Saw a woman crying[00:00:48]
Boy face the fence[00:00:49]
I don't wanna go to college[00:00:50]
If it causes this[00:00:52]
Back on the bus still analyzin vibes[00:00:53]
Turned to my moms excel asked her[00:00:55]
"why you cryin "[00:00:57]
She said because I'm happy[00:00:58]
But I could tell she lying[00:00:59]
And since lyin was a curse[00:01:01]
I sense storytelling[00:01:02]
Her eyes focused on a object long enough they tingle[00:01:04]
That's when she reached into her bag because her phone was ringin[00:01:06]
She said "I accept"[00:01:09]
I'm still puzzle piecing[00:01:10]
I knew my pops was on the other line[00:01:11]
Lonely singing[00:01:13]
We been starving so long in these crazy ghetto streets[00:01:14]
And they say we're so wrong for the way we try to eat[00:01:19]
How long will he struggle[00:01:25]
I gotta grind just to eat now[00:01:27]
I gotta eat just a lil now[00:01:30]
So I gotta live my life this way[00:01:33]
Soon after we roll up to these gates[00:01:35]
Barbed wired up[00:01:36]
Men standin in the entrance armed up[00:01:37]
With a close eye on us[00:01:40]
We enter the building[00:01:41]
Got checked by the women who staring[00:01:43]
My mother[00:01:44]
Pull out a card with a picture of her face on it[00:01:45]
Two papers with our names on it[00:01:48]
They identify her[00:01:51]
They lookin at me[00:01:52]
Me my confusion of the journey[00:01:53]
Thorugh these walls we go[00:01:55]
Before the next one opens[00:01:57]
The past one must close[00:01:59]
As they check for proper clothes[00:02:01]
My mama so prepared[00:02:03]
For this mini battle has chose[00:02:04]
Finally we reach our final destination[00:02:06]
My poppa placed in a seat[00:02:08]
Facin me[00:02:10]
No women in his class[00:02:11]
Jus men who never laugh[00:02:13]
And when they see they family[00:02:15]
They sing[00:02:16]
We been starving so long in these crazy ghetto streets[00:02:18]
And they say we're so wrong for the way we try to eat[00:02:23]
How long will he struggle[00:02:28]
I gotta grind just to eat now[00:02:31]
I gotta eat just a lil now[00:02:33]
So I gotta live my life this way[00:02:36]
So I begin my investigation[00:02:38]
My elbow on the round table[00:02:40]
My palm at chin[00:02:41]
I'm lookin at him[00:02:42]
Ask questions like[00:02:43]
"how you been "[00:02:45]
"when you graduatin "[00:02:46]
Time was up got pulled away[00:02:47]
Kickin and screamin[00:02:48]
Tears came to his eyes[00:02:49]
But never fell in front me[00:02:50]
Got old enough to realize[00:02:52]
Must've fell up under me[00:02:53]
Bein locked away in prison from your family[00:02:54]
Tryin to find ways for us to eat[00:02:56]
I see[00:02:58]
We been starving so long in these crazy ghetto streets[00:03:00]
And they say we're so wrong for the way we try to eat[00:03:05]
How long will he struggle[00:03:10]
I gotta grind just to eat now[00:03:13]
I gotta eat just a lil now[00:03:15]
So I gotta live my life this way[00:03:18]
We been starving so long in these crazy ghetto streets[00:03:21]
And they say we're so wrong for the way we try to eat[00:03:26]
How long will he struggle[00:03:31]
I gotta grind just to eat now[00:03:34]
I gotta eat just a lil now[00:03:37]
So I gotta live my life this way[00:03:39]