Through My Eyes

What if I told you grandma raised me, she was blind and all

I was trapping, lil rapping, schools, nine and all

Been to hell and back, couple ditches, all kinda falls

Fiending for them pills, I tried to triple that in Tylenols

Who's to question bout my hustle and the way I'm eating?

Got a family, no job, I wake up late for meetings

Early morning, all momma's dishes got the razor treatment

Gotta feed the team, God I can't afford to pay the deacons

Man I believe in a lot of things

But I really heard them choppers scream

Daddy a man, he ain't invest, I went and copped the thing

Sinning since a gremlin, did some shit to make the doctor scream

Speaking of my daddy, that's another story

I really like to call that my mother's story

I was ripping and cripping, chilling it wasn't for me

And I'd be lying if I say he ain't do nothing for me

Apologize if I'm talking bout me

But my fans say they want hear me talk about street

I could finish it by eight, I'd hit that block bout nine

Purp and cubicles at work, we leave that office by three

Shit, shit I got a whole beat to go

Long story short we trying to see the dough

Ain't mentioned my daughter yet, you should meet her Joe

Just cause you get a shot don't mean you make this shit, it's free to throw

Kinda smart, won't say I wouldn't have been nothing

But it's something bout the streets that make a nigga keep jumping

When they call, just cause I leave won't mean I make it back

My daughter three, I mean she's smart but try explaining that

(I see it my way)

(And it ain't gonna change)

I mean is sinning really sinning when the end justify the means?

(And you would know why)

Am I wrong for wanting for me and my team?

(If you look through my eyes)

(I see it my way)

Cops ain't really doing shit

(And it ain't gonna change)

They just wearing the uniforms and shit

(And you would know why)

Couple niggas dying every day

(If you look through my eyes)

I mean what else could you say?

So many things about this industry is misleading

Filled with so many feminine ways you would think it's a miss leaking

From all of my time in the streets I never got dissed for no reason

Know I'm in Slaughterhouse now, back then I wanted them pigs bleedin

I'm who the kids see, but I ain't a role model

Before I found the genie, he was hiding in a coke bottle

And since you talk about your dad you ain't discover

When you sign you'll probly find that most these rappers is your brothers

Who raised these niggas?

Higher learning, school daze these niggas

Since I can't let a few raise these niggas

It's one and the same, still got every cal I bought

Child support to running in labels

Begging them for now support the shit just as foul as I thought

From stepping out with weapons out, loved ones in heaven now

Persevered through Def Jam, you lead your through Kevin Liles

Got blackballed, bounced back ya'll, now me and Royce be on 7 Mile

Hunger of a draft pick even though I'm a legend now

And so I'm blind like Stevie

To the joy my son get when he see me on TV, but ya'll think it's easy

I can barely walk in public if you was in my position, Surf

Home and away games are played the same just on different turfs

Nobody loyal, I'm a loner, I don't have a clique

To top it off, rap money come slower than Viagra dick

Feel like all my prayers hit my loved ones with an asterisk

Cause rapper shit had me out the country when my gram's was sick

No blog could ever let you know the half of it

Why the fuck niggas think I be on my passive shit?

So I can't decide who's the braver man

Cause you a slave to them streets and I'm a slave to these fans

(I see it my way)

Ya know what I mean?

(And it ain't gonna change)

Niggas be wanting to switch places or trade places like shit is all good and all that

(And you would know why)

(If you look through my eyes)

All niggas see is the cars and the hoes

(I see it my way)

See em in the strip club, little bit of jewelry on and think everything gravy though

(And it ain't gonna change)

(And you would know why)

I almost punched one of these sucka niggas in the face last night

(If you look through my eyes)

But the hood shit don't stop

Don't stop cause you ain't in it

They only think you take a nigga out the hood, you can't take the hood out a nigga

Ya'll don't feel me though

Young numb