[Intro:]
How y'all doin ladies and gentlemen?
My name is King Barry Gordy

And... I have a story for y'all
You know somebody that went through it
I don't care where you from...

East, West, midwest, South, please listen

[Chorus:]

Momma why we ain't got no lights?
Why do you and auntie fight over a pipe?
Why all these roaches at night?

Why my uncle always come and steal every thing in sight?
Why different guys pick up my sister every day of her life?
Why my brother n his homies always blazing that indo?

Why they sellin crack and blowin it in your ba!@&(t window?
Momma why you send me to school hungry and never clean?
I'm gettin teased cause my clothes smell like kerosene


[Verse 1:]
I can see my breath in my own house

I notice the eviction notice on the door so I guess we finna get thrown out
Momma please pay the rent when your next check come
She can barely spit out a word cause her mouth is so numb

And big brother I can't believe you
You ridin in cars with these two
And you know we need food

You sellin 'cane outta here
Drunk felons hang out in here
You ain't hearing things loud and clear, is you?

You know momma can't take care of us
Face it ^!$$%, you our parents, bro
Cause all our sister wanna do is do her hair and $#&@

She's the neighborhood rat, all the homies hit it
All the hood ^!$$%z hit it, started yellin at the trick
Me and her don't even kick it

Her conversation strictly money and ^!$$%z
So she just be senseless
Never though a ^!$$% life would ever be this bold

I shouldn't even be seeing this %#@! b only ten years old

[Chorus:]

Momma why we ain't got no lights?
Why do you and auntie fight over a pipe?
Why all these roaches at night?

Why my uncle always come and steal every thing in sight?
Why different guys pick up my sister every day of her life?
Why my brother n his homies always blazing that indo?

Why they sellin crack and blowin it in your ba!@&(t window?
Momma why you send me to school hungry and never clean?
I'm gettin teased cause my clothes smell like kerosene


[Verse 2:]
My brother's locked up now a ^!$$% really out here

Going to school mad as hell cause I ain't got no gear
Man, I'm fired up
Don't even know the last time I had a haircut

G, is you feelin me? But I'm gettin suspended
Cause I'm always gettin defensive
Feelin offended, swinging on classmates in an instant

Often walking home crying cause my pride is dead
So much pain in society gone take time to heal it
On my way home from school prayin to lord almighty

That when I get to school no one's gon be feindin or fightin
We'll just leave that %#@! alone and maybe we'll be alright
But I'll never be ok, there's to much drugs and violence

I see my auntie and here husband move they stuff in
My mommy, what happened to her friend's checks that she does her drugs with and when the cash is all gone
And her credit is out

My uncle leave and take the aluminum siding off of the house

[Chorus:]

Momma why we ain't got no lights?
Why do you and auntie fight over a pipe?
Why all these roaches at night?

Why my uncle always come and steal every thing in sight?
Why different guys pick up my sister every day of her life?
Why my brother n his homies always blazing that indo?
Why they sellin crack and blowin it in your ba!@&(t window?
Momma why you send me to school hungry and never clean?

I'm gettin teased cause my clothes smell like kerosene

[Verse 3:]
My sisters pregnant with her third baby in three years
I'm 13, Yea mom's still a dope fiend

My brother's outta the pen saying he'll stay clean
No weed or dope sellin, gettin a job with no felon
Two days later when I see him this %#@! was so funny
Watch him half kill a friend cause the (*##$ owe him money
My momma and auntie tripin tradin blows in the kitchen

Beefin over a piece of a nickel that came up missin
My uncle all in my brother room, rambling in his stuff
Uncle when he come home, you know he $#&@in you up
But what really $#&@ed up, my sister got me babysitting
I acting like I don't know the (*##$ is still trickin

My brother got caught in the crackhouse, they gave him five
Keep lockin him up lord, just don't take his life
In the end you thought I'd be some thing but I'm not
I'm 18 years old, sellin my momma rock