Growing Pains-Blu & Exile/Blu/Exile/Fashawn/Johaz

[00:22.75]Yo, yo, nappy headed snot nose [00:24.68]Lawn full of potholes [00:25.73]Grew up in the town where your shoes called zapatos [00:28.44]Was a skinny ***** so the people call me flaco [00:31.13]My older cousin Reggie was my only other honcho [00:33.51]Every Sunday morning we would go to the mercado [00:35.86]Piece of (?) of soda and some fifty cent tacos [00:38.58]Buy us that Tijuana with the rats and cukarachos [00:41.03]Headed across the border, with my mom to her trabajo [00:43.54]This to my brother Pablo, can't break the bond with you and I [00:46.00]Held a ***** down from pre-school to junior high [00:48.61]Never had a lot but always comin' through when do or die [00:51.17]Always had a smile but on the inside, you would cry [00:53.70]Always told use my mind, the world is your canvas [00:56.18]Moved in '94, the same year as Illmatic [00:58.85]Then back to the block with John in elastic [01:01.23]The way he lost his life in that car it was tragic [01:03.52]Tried to understand it, still can't get a grip [01:06.24]7 years later ****** still don't give a **** [01:08.83]Down to bend a knee thankin God that we here to live [01:11.34]Barely in our scenes havin' dreams that we gettin' rich [01:13.97]Always knew the boy could spit, ****** call me Battlestar [01:16.59]Learned most of my game from the routes of Mt. Agalar [01:19.17]Still the fastest in my P.E. class [01:21.21]One love to Big Lenny and D.E. Slash [01:23.53] [01:24.27]There was once two brothers of the same breed [01:26.09]The same type, wore each other's Nikes [01:28.65]Tighter than tube socks, even dressed alike [01:31.21]Any drama throw the gloves on, let 'em fight [01:33.70]In the backyard, or the front lawn [01:36.18]Meet little Corey, and young Shawn [01:38.74]Before puberty hit, the two of 'em skipped- [01:41.25]School on the usual tip, polluted the strip [01:43.65]Corey's mom always left **** around the house [01:46.34]Corey called Shawn, next thing you know, he sneakin' out [01:49.21]To help him with his hustle, on his daily route [01:51.62]Until one day, they ran into a scuffle [01:53.99]With some young'n's from the other side [01:56.50]Corey didn't make it, Shawn survived [01:58.36]But his lost his best friend in the midst of bullets flying [02:00.94]Hard to even smile but he's tryin' [02:03.50]But... you know what they say... [02:04.76] [02:05.41]Cause everybody grows, and everybody knows [02:10.27]That time moves fast, I just want to make the good times last; [02:14.13]You live and you learn (2x) [02:24.82] [02:25.18]I already got that swisher rolled [02:26.05]Gangsta boogie to the liquor store [02:27.27]Puttin young Ach on ****, a kid who shouldn't know [02:29.60](?) Waitress, kissin on your sisters nose [02:32.08]Meetin Martell at the mall, just to hook a ho [02:34.82](?) on the box where my pops pushed the night [02:37.17]Cookin' white, sidekick was grits and sugared rice [02:39.66]Hooded nights at the cypher, round table no mic [02:41.95]Like, "you ain't know 'Get Like Me'?", no dice [02:44.57]Hide-and-seek with a fly freak, shy like a geek [02:47.02]Gettin' credit fora kiss on the cheek [02:49.03]You ain't beat [02:49.92]Gettin' beats from the motif [02:50.94]Pass on the Casio [02:52.12]Wanted that one and a mil', before Casio [02:54.96]Always had a savvy flow, back when it was cavi- [02:57.37]So Cali cause I roll in a Caddy [02:59.51]Said, "fully I be feelin' that hood, G" [03:01.34]Still hold cold since that one ho pushed me [03:03.58]Come on, how could he? [03:05.02]A rookie still buildin' up my memory stats [03:07.53]Black, my phone got stole, give me three years then hear me back [03:09.80]Brrrrrring, ch, ch [03:12.33]Chirping something something something [03:13.90]No, chill *****, I'm working [03:14.92] [03:15.26]Yo, pornos in the range-range [03:16.33]Hidden for the main vein [03:17.53]Took 'em from Pop's stash, then after made pot ash [03:20.17]Listening to King T [03:21.27]40's on empty [03:22.50]Memories of times before the 2000MP [03:25.19]Heart was never empty [03:26.36]Pockets super empty [03:27.69]Beggin' for change to fill his stomach on empty [03:30.25]Times were more more simply [03:31.48]Face was too pimply [03:32.71]But still hittin chicks - [03:33.81]Young, dumb, off of rum [03:35.22]No condom on some stupid **** [03:36.71]And love on some Cupid **** [03:37.83]Pure heart, fell in love with many of these stupid chicks [03:40.29]But that's how it go though [03:41.75]Homey snorting No-Doz [03:42.77]Car-hoppin' stealing everything, alarm would ring [03:45.33]Run before one time spotted us [03:47.73]Dumb **** we hold very deep inside the heart of us... [03:50.29] [03:56.01]Cause everybody grows, and everybody knows [04:01.63]That time moves fast, I just want to make the good times last; [04:05.15]You live and you learn