The Birth - Json

Middle of summer, '81, 22nd of June

8 AM I jumped out of my mamma’s womb

That ladies addiction was made crazy

Love me but couldn’t shake it, that made me a crack baby

Doctor smacked me, I took it just like a G, though

Eyes wide open, was blurry, but I could see, though

Lungs, they was functioning, breathing though I was wheezing

Thank God that I’m simply living a youngin' of ten children, ahhh

Fast forward, heartbeat shaping

Sirens couldn’t fire

Box look like they vacant

St. Louis city, death like you could smell it

Product of Reaganomics, a youngin' with no direction

Mom’s trying her best, but

I had been infected with street life, I selected

Then Danna’s banana clip, so you can bring on the ambulance

GD who I’m standing with, and this is just how we handle it, I

Went from timid, intimidated and scared

Just sick and vicious, just live it like I ain’t dead yet

This how it is when you live where the violence is

The homies runnin' with poppers big as their bodies is

I went from hating the very dope that my mamma did

To actually selling that very dope to my mom and them

It’s extreme, but I stay with the Florida

Living like I’m as old as the .40 I’m keepin' on me

Heart dark as denim in me

The venom in the vicinity is the very thing that hooked on my identity so

Don’t try to filter me

Give you the realest me and then you’ll see the glory of the blood that

delivered me