You ever been to the zoo, with the monkeys and gorillas
It's the same as the streets with the junkies and the ^!$$%s
Man the hood gave hope, to the funkies and the dealers

Made money off dope, sellin bunk with all the killers
He was fresh off the jail, feel like ain't nobody realer
He just did 12 years for a nothing $$# ^!$$%

Never wrote em any, never event sent picture
When he got out, all he said
Is you real you ain't snitch, bra

Ain't that a (*##$, bra, didn't give him a dollar
Not a filthy red cent, huh
You see what I'm saying, do you even get the picture

Or you blinded by the light by these fake hood scriptures?
Free my brother, knowing damn well he a killer
Man that preacher laying at the funeral

He ain't know that ^!$$%, yeah he just wanted a check
That's some wild %#@!, black people gotta grow up
We too childish


[Hook]
You just a little boy, you got some growin up to do

You still think thugging and sellin drugs at school
She just a little girl, she got some growin up to do
She still think hoeing and $#&@in ^!$$%s is cool

Damn man, we so childish
Damn man, we so childish
Black people we got growin up to do

Just a little boy, just a little girl

Man, our people so lost, we never gonn evolve

A little child get killed and nothing nobody saw
Sellin dope make you real, so you supplyin the raw
Never been to jail, you square, or you workin with the law

Graduate from college, and get no recognition
Have a party thrown for you if you getting outta prison
Unprotected sex, never mind the latex

She raise a number when she seen you that I am latex
Are you the father? You denying, they guess
The results come back, you was lying and I yes

Man you don't give a $#&@, you don't care anyway
You rather buy some phone posits and get your money to bennie maine
And go spend time with your son, and spend a couple pennies man

Take him out to chucky cheese or even eat at diny's day
Beeing a father was never a part of the plan
Cause you was a little boy you can never be a man, grow up!


[Hook]
You just a little boy, you got some growin up to do

You still think thugging and sellin drugs at school
She just a little girl, she got some growin up to do
She still think hoeing and $#&@in ^!$$%s is cool

Damn man, we so childish
Damn man, we so childish
Black people we got growin up to do

Just a little boy, just a little girl

So you could rise a gun but can't raise your sun

Go buy a brand new charger still won't drive to see your daughter
Go in and out of jail, but you won't get a job
Instead of getting on your grind, you'd rather go steal and rob

And they wonder why we loosin and we last in this race
Court room, should've seen his grandmother face
Can't look her in the face, he's a disgrace to the fam

She did all that she could, when your mama didn't give a damn
Damn, now you stuck can't escape, just said 25
With a stone cold face, grannie broke down and cried

Tears runnin down her face
Man this %#@! so real that it seem fake
And it ain't been gone a year and your girl got pregnant

To make things worse, man your best friend did it
You gonn call him a fake ^!$$%
But you got life in jail, what she posed to wait ^!$$%?