[00:00:00] Been Through The Storm - Busta Rhymes [00:00:33] Been through the storm [00:00:33] Through the cold and rain [00:00:36] Everything's still the same [00:00:38] Can't control how I feel [00:00:40] Sometimes it's hard to keep it real [00:00:42] You see the luxuries in life [00:00:44] With the fortune and fame [00:00:46] Like them Cadillacs with sunroofs mayne [00:00:49] So many ways to make a dollar [00:00:50] Huh sometimes I think about my father [00:00:53] You see my poppa was broke [00:00:55] And my momma was young [00:00:57] Tryin to blend in with them city folk [00:00:59] Every day landlord knockin down my do' [00:01:02] Wonderin where my next blessing is comin from [00:01:04] My momma and poppa moved to the U S [00:01:06] As Jamaicans [00:01:06] Struggled to get visas [00:01:08] And green cards through immigration [00:01:09] Though my pop was po' stayed away [00:01:11] From crime and malice [00:01:12] Hard living gave him hard hands and callous [00:01:14] As a young'n peep how much [00:01:16] They loved each other's space [00:01:16] His hard hands rubbin against [00:01:18] The pretty skin of my mother's face [00:01:19] Dig for treasure 'til his hands [00:01:21] Looked like hands of a junkie [00:01:22] So coarse slap a mule and take [00:01:23] The life from a donkey [00:01:25] On the other hand mommy was [00:01:26] The type to work two jobs [00:01:27] Never enough money that's why [00:01:28] I got your whole crew robbed [00:01:30] Got older developed ways of grippin the steel [00:01:32] Barely home for me to see her [00:01:34] Or get a good cooked meal [00:01:35] Seek refuge in the alleged [00:01:36] Land of the free lookin [00:01:38] Blendin in with city folk [00:01:39] Down in Flatbush Brooklyn [00:01:40] Feel a little of my pain [00:01:42] Follow and sing to it [00:01:43] Homey I seen it all if you [00:01:45] Ain't knowin I been through it [00:01:46] In other words I [00:01:47] Been through the storm [00:01:48] Through the cold and rain [00:01:50] Everything's still the same [00:01:52] Can't control how I feel [00:01:55] Sometimes it's hard to keep it real [00:01:57] You see the luxuries in life [00:01:58] With the fortune and fame [00:02:00] Like them Cadillacs with sunroofs mayne [00:02:03] So many ways to make a dollar [00:02:05] Huh sometimes I think about my father [00:02:07] You see my poppa was broke [00:02:09] And my momma was young [00:02:11] Tryin to blend in with them city folk [00:02:13] Every day landlord knockin down my do' [00:02:16] Wonderin where my next blessing is comin from [00:02:18] Got a little older late teens [00:02:19] Me and my crew would huddle [00:02:21] On the corner late nights [00:02:22] Plottin to escape struggle [00:02:23] Nights got cold and still [00:02:24] Would hustle in the same place [00:02:26] In front of Pancho Delis [00:02:27] Now the freeze up on a nigga face [00:02:29] 1987 Reaganomics ever curious [00:02:31] To visit other cities [00:02:32] Out of town kick was serious [00:02:34] Guayanese jeans bounce [00:02:35] Put whatever slinger on [00:02:37] Whatever slinger came back [00:02:38] Quickly brought me right along [00:02:39] Nigga ran away from home [00:02:41] Doin different wild shit just to put [00:02:43] A pair of Filas on 'Didas on [00:02:45] Wreck is all for the good gettin into shit [00:02:47] Like we innocent actin older than should [00:02:50] Walk around broke in the hood [00:02:51] Watchin all the rich niggaz [00:02:53] These younger thugs who try [00:02:54] To choke and try to get niggaz [00:02:56] Thinkin 'bout my mom and pop [00:02:57] While I'm monopolizin [00:02:58] To hell with just gettin by and economizin [00:03:01] It's kinda hard bein humble [00:03:02] In the belly of struggle [00:03:04] Doin things that probably get you in trouble [00:03:05] That's why we stay up on the block [00:03:07] Gettin money while we keepin it safe [00:03:09] In front of churchgoers keepin the faith [00:03:10] Mom and pop be worryin for they son [00:03:13] Despite they struggle and their honest