You know I love you different, my queen, my mother, sisterProtect you with my life, let’s desconstruct the myth-uhYou just depressed a bit, and only good for sexin’ with youLet’s dismantle that, it’s a man you lackYou don’t need us, you could handle thatLet’s see where the black family atWe need each other, with bad tempers, we defeat each otherSingle mothers, my heart’s bleeding for youThese coward men, that were beating on you (Never me)Let’s silence them, with a silencerFor the violence of relationshipsHold your head up, don’t take that shit, run away from itI shoulda ran away myself, the amount of pain I was dealtAnd I’m a man, my job is to helpSingle parent home, came up, now the man is grownMom’s gone, pop’s here, wish God reversed the roles(Sometimes) If I could’ve chose, subsidized housin’Sometimes witnessin’ the most foulest things would arouse usWe became numb like pure ‘caine on the tongueTo the pains from economical strainsDiabolical games put on our future kingsAnd our future queens, y’all the strongest ones (Yeah)May God gives strength to women who lost their sonsI give all I have ’til the war is won (Ooh woah, oh-oh)We’re nothing without our womenI give all I have ’til the war is won (Yeah)(Ooh woah, oh-oh)I give all I have2020 flows, everything getting exposed (Exposed)Who really the bros? (Bros) Who really is goals? (Goals)Who ready to let it go? All the grudges we hold (Uh)It’s too many fallen soldiers NY to the ‘Go (Chi-Town)Late night outside, you hear the forty drum (Baow)In every ghetto and all the slums (For real)
These laws made to slaughter us (Damn)I give all I have ’til the war is wonI was servin’ out my mama crib, she ain’t know about it (She ain’t know about it)Complaining about my rent, but I know my mama got me (My mama got me)She told me to be a man, and never sleep through problems (Sleep through problems)University of the streets, I ain’t plan on going to college (Oh yeah)Why you crying ’bout low income and welfare? (Ooh)You ain’t the only one going through it, this everywhereBetter hold your head, I know it don’t feel fairReason my people dead and they know I still careDepending on the people, then you gotta do betterBlack lives matter, I’m for real, it do matter (For real, it do matter)Black-on-black crime, they still do it to whoever (Whoever)Talking to the trenches, we just gotta do better (Do better)He think he Martin Luther, but he tryna be a shooter (Tryna be a shooter)Got his car took, he ride with guns in the Uber (In the Uber)I’m talking where we from, we carry MACs, but no computers (No computers)He got out yesterday, but he went in when he was juvie (Chi-Town)Diabolical games put on our future kingsAnd our future queens, y’all the strongest ones (Yeah)May God gives strength to women who lost their sonsI give all I have ’til the war is wonShe do the best to raise our youngOoh, she independent and she don’t depend on no oneWe ain’t nothing without our womenOoh, she independent, went from a girl to a womanOne love to the single mothersOoh, oh, yeah, yeahI give all I have ’til the war is won (Ooh, woah, oh-oh)‘Til the war is won, we gotta stick togetherWomen, stop chasing your man awayMen, stop acting crazy, chasing your woman awayWe all we have ’til the war is won, yeah