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No Cristal poppin'
This the top some forty ounces get in this twisted awful often
No bling blings and shiny things 'cause everybody I know ain't ballin'
I don't know any Pablo Escobar's and
He may have been from the Gambinos
But ain't no gangstas that'll rob you for a crumb like it was a kilo
For real though, I know brothas that'll sell
They bodies, give a pimp all of the proceeds
Ain't no crack if they don't sell Similac
Whether babies or at home hungry
'Cause they're hungry, so many tryna act like they don't know this
It's like sellin' crack to a pregnant
Woman and tryna say you didn't notice
But the coldest is the realest we all see on a daily basis
Young kids catchin' murder cases, leavin' mama's history faces
In a society that's so racist that it spawns negativity
And it always seems to end up in the black and brown vicinity
Like little Jimmy, how the hell the story start? Once upon a time
Was a young cat on the grind, he lived in the building next to mine
He used to like the way I rhyme and tell stories about the barrio
He used to tell me 'bout the dope
Game and how far away he'd like to go
He was a young buck in his game, I was twenty, he was nine
He didn't even have a brother, so I told everybody he was mine
His mama was a crackhead that used to turn tricks for nickels
And pops loved 'em both when Jimmy was suckin' his mama's nipples
Life was never simple, circumstance threw him to the streets
'Cause mama can't support her habit and look after Jimmy's needs
So the streets embraced him, gave him the game and then it laced him
But no one had a clue that the game would soon erase him
I paint vivid pictures and give the accurate descriptions
About the realest shit 'cause I ain't into kickin' fiction
I know the street life, lifestyle broke and scandalous
I call it how I see it 'cause I was raised up in this madness
I like the sadness 'cause the streets ain't got a conscience
I'm livin' for today because tomorrow wasn't promised
I remember Jimmy when he first came out of the house hangin'
Wanted to be around the big boys when we was out on the block slangin'
And I still recall the first chance he got to make some money
Oh yes, little Jimmy, we gon' make your pockets chunky
Now he's learnin' the world when he
Shoulda been on the playground playin'
Instead he's hustlin' and gangbangin', you know what I'm sayin'?
And you could truly say that he was a product of the environment
And sometimes I gotta wonder if I was
Strong enough to survive that shit
'Cause can you really say that every night you once been hungry?
Or if you ever said the words that "My mommy doesn't love me"?
If the answer's no, you couldn't understand little Jimmy
Or why he was sellin' dope, smokin' weed, and sippin' Rémy
While other little kids were playin'
With G.I. Joes with the swivel grips
Jimmy was on the track runnin' from task, tryna get his chips
But listen to this, he was a little boy tryna survive
And this is the saddest story I ever told in my whole life
And I damn near cried, the way birthdays
And Christmases used to miss him
Fillin' out a list of presents and knowin' he wasn't gonna get 'em
And that's the kind of shit right there
That robbed Jimmy of his childhood
And pushed him into the fast lane of the dope game of the neighborhood
I paint vivid pictures and give the accurate descriptions
About the realest shit 'cause I ain't into kickin' fiction
I know the street life, lifestyle broke and scandalous
I call it how I see it 'cause I was raised up in this madness
I like the sadness 'cause the streets ain't got a conscience
I'm livin' for today because tomorrow wasn't promised
Many months passed by with little Jimmy gettin' his paper
Still a prisoner to his mommy and there was no way he could escape her
'Cause now she wanted to know about little Jimmy's whereabouts
Since he always had the product, she always wanted Jimmy in the house
For the first time in his life, she's payin' him some attention
But now he's givin' her dope in exchange for her affections
'Cause a little boy'll do anything to hear his mama say, "I love you"
Could you imagine if your mommy didn't love you or didn't hug you?
Little Jimmy knows, and it must've broke his little heart
To watch this woman that he loved so much tearin' her life apart
As the story starts to take a turn off to the worst
Because little Jimmy's dead and his mom's a murderer in the first
As the story goes, she came home one late night tweakin'
Lookin' for some dope while little Jimmy was in the bed sleepin'
She couldn't find no dope and I guess her mind must've snapped
She took the pillow off her bed and
Brought it back to where Jimmy was at
And she didn't shed a tear as she put the pillow over his head
And kept applyin' pressure until little Jimmy was dead
And the next day when I heard about it, I wasn't even surprised
But the hood got hella blurry as the tears filled my eyes
I thought about how it happened and it was way before his time
Oh yeah, did I ever mention little Jimmy was only nine?
I paint vivid pictures and give the accurate descriptions
About the realest shit 'cause I ain't into kickin' fiction
I know the street life, lifestyle broke and scandalous
I call it how I see it 'cause I was raised up in this madness
I like the sadness 'cause the streets ain't got a conscience
I'm livin' for today because tomorrow wasn't promised
I'm livin' for today because tomorrow wasn't promised