Responsibilities - K.A.A.N., K-DEF

Aye lawd

Knowledge aye

I got flows that I got to kill and people that I got to see and shit I got to do

I got flows that I got to kill and people that I got to see and shit I got to do

Put the pen to the page though

Like a canvas so I can let the pain flow

5:30 in the mother fucking morning

Nigga waking up to go and get his younger brother ready for school

Said it’s a hell of a task

That nigga never had a chance to relax

His father left when he was young

So he the man of the house now

But his mother wasn’t nothing more than a fiend

Itching for another fix

Living with the pipe dream

Get the fuck out of the house you got to go and get it

Ain’t nobody gonna pay your rent and

Ain’t nobody gonna put no fucking food upon the table for your family to eat

You want to starve motherfucker or do you want to survive?

The only thought upon the young nigga mind is the way he maintains

And maneuvers through a plain

Full of snakes in the grass

And anyone is a seed

When you’re looking like a meal

And they might just eat you

He’s telling his brother to finish his breakfast so they can both leave

Gotta take him to the bus stop and every other day

The walk consist a different life story

Tryin' to tell him how it is and the way that the world goes

Everything ain’t always gonna work out in your favor

But never lose faith

'Cause only God can save us

And do what the fuck It really takes

To stay away from the streets

At least an arm’s-length

Do not look for strength

Within the words of another

To cover an insecurity

Courtesy of a hunger

To hustle and get your currency

But never lose sight of the goal

That you’re pursuin'

The reason you even do it or who it is that you’re helpin'

Try your best to find a purpose

Diverted from any ignorance

And bust your fuckin' ass to make sure that you’re more intelligent

But try to understand that you must develop a plan

Never let nobody else make you feel less than

God damn

I got flows that I got to kill and people that I got to see and shit I got to

do (do, do)

I got flows that I got to kill and people that I got to see and shit I got to

do (do, do)

I got flows that I got to kill and people that I got to see and shit I got to

do (do, do)

Young nigga on the motherfuckin move and he refuse to lose

Don’t ever get it confuse

Lawd !

Put your mother fucking backpack on

We out the door in five minutes or less

Say «Yo, we really gotta go»

His mother banging on the floor

And she begging to get a hit

She feeling sick and he can notice it

He moving up the steps

So he can find out what the issue is

It wasn’t insignificant

He went inside his room and saw his mother in the shit again

Running through the stash

He was feeling disappointed

Now why can’t you be responsible?

Do you think that it’s possible?

That you could be the parent

Instead of giving me obstacles that imma overcome upon the daily

Mom why can’t you get a job?

And how the fuck are you dependent on the shit that I’ve been selling so that

we can keep the lights on?

You done turned me and my younger brother into a couple of victims

Of your addiction

But you don’t ever want to listen

I’m trying to make

it happen

for us here right now

But with the way that you’re acting

I see that you don’t really care

She was already gone

Lost in a blank stare

It was at that point of time that he finally realized, it was hopeless

Grabbed his younger brother by the hand and said

«We really gotta go the bus is leaving in a couple of minutes»

They get to concrete and moving to get it

You better mind your fucking business while we’re out here in the street

I wanna show you how to be a better man

So that you can understand

Everything that shines is not gold

There’s a woman selling pussy for the proper restitution

With a nigga pushing pills on the people to feel sedated

There’s a body on the ground

But the spirit is elevated

Ain’t nobody seen what happened

It’s definitely gang related

Just another act of violence committed from one of the natives

I hope you pay attention

And see what im really saying

And sure that’s a fucked up lesson

I pray you never forget it

But don’t ever be complacent

The skies your only limit

God damn