[00:12.30]Allow me to set the scene first
[00:14.70]This little ***** no older than seventeen in a Martin Luther King shirt
[00:19.31]Walkin' down the mean murk, where the fiends lurk
[00:21.98]And the same dirt’ll find a *****
[00:23.81]Even if you tryna' get that clean work
[00:26.13]He caught eyes with a bad ***** in a jean skirt
[00:29.34]She gave him a mean smirk, he smiled back
[00:31.98]He remembered this man that hit that s**t a while back
[00:35.12]He met her, ****** her, never dialed back
[00:37.22]How ****** do, he kept it movin', couldn’t wait to get home
[00:40.77]Report card for his mother couldn’t wait to get shown
[00:43.83]Straight A’s as usual, his momma would smile
[00:47.14]Youngest child, college bound
[00:48.81]Knew his momma was proud
[00:50.05]Cause he was headed out the hood
[00:51.86]He promised himself one day he’d get her out for good
[00:55.09]That made him smile
[00:56.09]The favorite child, but damn, fate is foul
[00:58.79]Drive by, stray bullets that laid him out
[01:01.84]On the pavement fading out
[01:03.23]Now he bleeding thinking, God, man, you couldn’t wait a while
[01:06.54]My momma struggling who gon save her now, huh?
[01:09.38]Now he fading out thinking God, you couldn’t wait a while?
[01:12.76]My momma need me, who gon' save her now, *****? uh
[01:16.30]Yeah, he’s fading out, the favorite child
[01:22.51]He’s fading out (the favorite child)
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