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lyrics

His momma stood in his room staring in space, empty sniffing his close

From here on, a memory is just as good as it goes

He was close, good w/ the fam but never was he good w/ his foes

Crib in the Burbs life up in the hood what he chose

Momma’s educated, black woman she college graduated

Pops died out in the streets his name validated

By the stories he was fascinated

A kid w/ money is now a man now there goes your maturation

19 w/ a gun, beam & a dream

Tryna match thee allure of a man he never seen — everything

He told his Momma what he know

But when you selling these drugs it no Hippocratic oath

Emotions is erased when you upping it from the your waist

Bet a spray, If not ya opposition is led astray

33 shots rang 9 hit you above the waist

The Trauma unit is real, homie imagine how ya momma feel


➖➖➖➖➖
It was 9 at night when the phone rang and all the bad news hit

It’s when the time got slow & she can’t do shit

But take it— she couldn’t gauge it—His murder page the front pages

momma had to deal wit the stress and still arrange it

His little brother stood painless, unable to mind frame it

I guess it’ll come when the times change em — wit age

Everyday his mother visit the grave

Alternative thoughts like why he couldn’t sit in the cage

This is rough, unreal, everyday he’s a no show

Flashback to Ricky with his scratch & Ho-Ho’s

Killas In Hondas, premonition,

just look at Mrs. Baker face when she came walking up out the kitchen

But this is real life no camera crew to shoot it

No edited scenes over the melancholy music

so if you out in the field just know the trauma real

Play it wise lil homie, imagine how yo Momma feel


Premonition

Mrs. Baker

Hell in the homes






Flashing back to Ricky, boys in the hood on that old school couch


knew the path he was going down
2. He wasn’t scared to die
3. Hadn’t been home in 3 days
4. Randomly popped home,
5. 2am wanted to sleep in his own be
6. Warrant for his arrest
7. 9pm got the phone call
8. If I would’ve
9. Was headed in his direction but got redirected
10. Baptized a week after Easter
11. He knew
12.
13. Convo conflict resolution
14. July 2nd fell on a
15. (Saturday)
16. Cemetery
17. Grandfather blaming the mother
18. Still did check ups, 9:30-10:10 pm
19. His momma called him selfish
20.

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from Cost of Living, released November 15, 2022

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