[00:00:00] There there baby it's just textbook stuff [00:00:04] It's in the ABC of growing up [00:00:11] There there baby it's just textbook stuff [00:00:15] It's in the ABC of growing up [00:00:22] Yeah three women raised me [00:00:23] Famous footwear paid me [00:00:24] Not enough to blow up but sure enough [00:00:26] Cause I ain't f-cking lazy [00:00:27] If teachers thought I was dumb or crazy or both [00:00:30] With hopes of being a Nas or Jay-Z I smoked [00:00:33] In my chair in my braids my hair wasn't waves [00:00:35] Being fly was priority to the lowest [00:00:37] I would stand on my desk just to seethe [00:00:40] World in a different way [00:00:41] The dead society of a poet [00:00:43] Homie I'm focused but thats something [00:00:45] That a dude can't prove [00:00:46] I mean fair I was damn near invisible at school [00:00:49] So I banged for a minute cause [00:00:51] All my n-ggas was crippin' [00:00:52] Just me and two of my dudes blue man group [00:00:55] Had dreams of doing things they said you can't do [00:00:57] Cause everything ain't black and white [00:00:59] Unless you chew bamboo [00:01:00] So I was after big bills like a toucan dude [00:01:03] All the while my mamma asking why [00:01:05] I'm chewing at school [00:01:06] She said [00:01:06] There there baby it's just textbook stuff [00:01:10] It's in the ABC of growing up [00:01:17] There there baby it's just textbook stuff [00:01:21] It's in the ABC of growing u [00:01:28] So why I ain't go to college [00:01:30] My mammas ultimatum made me say that I know I got it [00:01:33] My n-ggas said D's buggin' [00:01:34] Stay on your computer software de-buggin' [00:01:37] But we holding hardware cause we thuggin' [00:01:39] Now they in the trap house [00:01:40] With some guns they dun borrowed [00:01:42] And all this snow I call it empty sorrow [00:01:44] With plans to reach the end even if [00:01:46] I had to start slow [00:01:47] Sold CD's in the mall making dough like Sbarro's [00:01:50] Then I left the hood like f-ck it [00:01:52] Don't need the cargo [00:01:53] They banking out on you well [00:01:54] And I don't mean Fargo [00:01:56] But even if you leave somehow it try to follow [00:01:58] Baby brother took a charge hotter than Lebron and Rondo [00:02:00] Tryna keep his head up while his eyes are in the bible [00:02:03] Cause they say your mind is idol [00:02:05] It's a devils toy aisle [00:02:06] My nephew looking at me cause his daddy is his idol [00:02:09] I told him sit down this information is vital [00:02:12] Look [00:02:13] There there baby it's just textbook stuff [00:02:17] It's in the ABC of growing up [00:02:23] There there baby it's just textbook stuff [00:02:28] It's in the ABC of growing u [00:02:35] Living my life like I'm living right [00:02:37] In the midst of a fire pit [00:02:38] The gang banging and the violence [00:02:39] Is the sweetest song [00:02:40] In a room with the heart of a violin [00:02:42] Don't violate my patience I'm waiting [00:02:44] To kill a man as I stare at the celiing fan [00:02:46] As a fan of these wicked streets [00:02:48] If I gotta eat I steal like a metal peice [00:02:50] Screaming now f-ck the police [00:02:52] I'm dealing my cards with jokers on 'em [00:02:53] You can disown him or stone him [00:02:55] I'm throwin' them rocks back with a [00:02:56] Flurry of bullets [00:02:57] You couldn't live your life for the moment [00:02:58] When I'm foaming at the mouth [00:03:00] I'm as sharp as the teeth showing [00:03:02] I'm in the back of a black Buick [00:03:03] Finna black out like February [00:03:04] Ay thats how blacks do it right [00:03:07] I cut off my ears before I hear [00:03:08] Your advice and vice versa [00:03:09] I'm screaming for help as loud as [00:03:11] I can but thats not working [00:03:12] I'm working them corners like Blueprints [00:03:13] Then cut a L on my first offence [00:03:16] The judge threw the book at me than said this [00:03:19] There there baby it's just textbook stuff [00:03:23] It's in the ABC of growing up [00:03:29] There there baby it's just textbook stuff