Pops-Bambu

[00:04.22]Uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah [00:08.56]What up, son? [00:11.55]Yo [00:14.49]It was one-two-one-seven [00:15.79]Two-zero-zero-seven [00:17.36]Fresh out of pretty woman [00:18.87]A rebel woman [00:20.35]Another proud brown bloodline, baby [00:22.65]Been wanting to be a daddy your beautiful mama made me [00:26.16]Trials and tribulations [00:27.39]Months anticipatin' [00:28.97]Trying to stay afloat and raise you on a bank statement [00:31.77]Not good enough for a college kid [00:33.22]While staying positive [00:34.38]“Yo, how you living bam?” [00:35.91]“Just on my grind and ****” [00:37.42]Double shifts to put some health in ya life [00:39.83]A roof to call your home [00:41.40]Blanket for you at night [00:42.91]To real dad’s, the real man, through working class hands [00:45.55]Yeah, its hard to live with a whole system on your back [00:48.55]Not built for you to win in [00:50.21]Struggle or go to prison [00:51.54]Insomniac, worry about passing that to my children [00:54.71]**** it, I’m making pancakes [00:55.94]I’m on my pop **** [00:57.49]Yo this a song for us dads [00:59.31]Go head and knock this [01:00.48]I work hard for a dollar man [01:02.04]Just like my pops [01:03.37]I keep through it keep it moving homie [01:04.79]Just like my pops [01:05.86]That **** tough tryna maintain [01:07.51]Just like my pop [01:08.84]**** was trouble so behave [01:10.49]I blame this **** on ma pop [01:12.23]I work hard for a dollar man [01:13.71]Just like my pops [01:14.74]I keep through it keep it moving homie [01:16.44]Just like my pops [01:18.00]That **** tough tryna maintain [01:19.33]Just like my pop [01:20.55]**** was trouble so behave [01:22.29]I blame this **** on ma pop [01:23.68]My dad [01:24.85]Always on my ass about a job [01:26.66]Here’s a thanks in a song [01:28.11]Hopefully we move on [01:29.53]Never heard him say “I love you” but I felt it in life [01:32.17]Running round our neighborhood trying to find my stolen bike [01:35.39]With a .38 special in his jeans [01:37.60]They respected pops on my street at 87 OG [01:41.07]Shoot-outs in the middle of Mariposa [01:44.26]He come through when mom call him, like “goddammit Jonah” [01:47.40]For some **** I did wrong [01:48.91]Mom passed that belt but nothing ain’t hurt me more than when he left [01:52.13]I felt like if my pops only showed me that he cares when I’m bad [01:56.21]Then **** it, I’ll be bad [01:57.29]Affection from my dad in a beat down [01:59.57]“Pop look at me now, hope I make you proud [02:02.68]That you gonna see now” [02:04.19]See now [02:05.30]Let’s leave it in the past [02:07.82]Help me try and teach your grandson to be a man who [02:09.92]Work hard for a dollar man [02:11.37]Just like his pops [02:12.51]Get through it keep it moving homie [02:14.22]Just like his pops [02:16.14]**** tough tryna maintain [02:17.91]Just like his pops [02:19.30]**** is trouble so behave [02:20.75]Blame that **** on his pops [02:21.79]Work hard for a dollar man [02:23.52]Just like his pops [02:24.98]Get through it keep it moving homie [02:26.28]Just like his pops [02:27.52]**** tough tryna maintain [02:29.02]Just like his pops [02:30.23]**** is trouble so behave [02:31.83]Blame that **** on his pops [02:33.77]But how much longer can I blame it on my pop? [02:35.85]Old man struggle with some **** to keep me off of that rock [02:39.20]And it worked, so though I might talk a little **** [02:42.19]I’m glad that my dad was dumb strict [02:43.65]And coupled with the violence in the house [02:45.82]It was rough so minus all the violence in my house [02:48.61]Imma bring up [02:49.62]A brown little down little filipino soldier [02:52.25]Who’s already made his daddy proud about a million times over [02:55.96]Took a non-violent parent class [02:57.83]Fatty food, cutting back [02:59.22]Daddy tried to raise me with a punch—we ain’t doin that [03:01.81]I know you got a temper like me and your gramps [03:04.77]So I’m tryna get you focused when you amped [03:06.85]So now it’s about me leading by example [03:09.20]Working out my issues and my issues with with you mama [03:11.79]While you little from a playground runnin’ to a schoolyard cupping son [03:16.53]You can tell me anything [03:17.98]No judgement just [03:19.95]Work hard for a dollar man [03:21.35]Be like your pop [03:22.36]Get through it keep it moving homie [03:24.12]Just like ya pop [03:25.43]**** tough tryna maintain [03:26.86]Just like ya pop [03:28.39]**** is trouble so behave [03:29.84]Hey, hey [03:30.62]Work hard for a dollar man [03:32.42]Be like your pop [03:33.63]Get through it keep it moving homie [03:35.29]Just like ya pop [03:36.63]**** tough tryna maintain [03:37.93]Just like ya pop [03:39.33]**** was trouble so behave [03:40.85]Blame that **** on ya pop [03:42.41]I get down on them pancakes [03:44.03]Sick witht he chicken strips [03:45.64]Mac and cheese mac, homie [03:47.20]I’m a dad, I take care of my kid [03:50.86]I know its tough but i’m saying grab hold of your kid cause [03:54.94]Somebody in the world lost a son today [03:59.23]I’m saying somebody in the world lost a daughter today [04:05.62]Somebody in the world lost a son today [04:11.69]I’m saying somebody in the world lost a daughter today