(Yes I did... I a mistake... yes I did)
Huh..ya living this type a life makes you grow up faster than you'd expect to sometimes... fuck around and be in your twenties... like a old man and shit... yeah for real son... let em
It's hard to breath and to run when your lung's blackened Coughing up like what the fuck happened Raising my risk of cancer's the answer But after drinking something nothing like puffing a bogie Now I can blame the product placement in movies, Or the commercials, or in a jacuzzi But now I'm it Damn I should a took that first cigarette
(I a mistake)
I fucked up, like girl was riding on top of me I should of took her to trial and never a plea But this ain't a Christian motherfucka please America never taught me to turn the other I'm from Harlem, the north of Manhattan We knock niggas out and em bounce like Ricky Hattan But wildin on the court, had got me turned back the Canadian border
(I a mistake)
I knew she was a virgin, when I met her Rockin and poppin out of the catholic school sweater Mom told her she could do than a criminal year-old psychotic, trying to be lyrical I meant to break her heart or fuck up her life But I was careless, instead of treating her I her workin it, some club strippin and wondered If I could have her life different
(I a mistake... yes I did... )
talking over the beat: Damn shortie, you got me on some singin the shit... but you gotta stop looking and remember to look ahead... this is for all my dudes on patrol in the right now... for real]
(I a mistake)
Yeah..yeah... I joined the looking for money to go to college But they ain't pay me a quarter of they fucking promised Extended my tour, treating me like a That's the reason officers get motherfucker Don't me speeches on how you respect and you love me But no body armor in a armored humvee?! My family's lonely and you me to reenlist for 30 grand homie?
(I a mistake)
When I was young I got to a record label The looked so good when it was on the table It paid for my cable, cribs, and jewelry The studios, the women nothing they wouldn't do for me stop screwing me for publishing the royalties How the fuck are you my dawg, when there's no Word to the I should've gone independent like Immortal
(I a mistake)
people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them Others try to block the memories and delete them But I em as a reminder they not killing me And I thank God for me humility Son, remember when you fight to be To see things how are and not how you like em to be Cause even when the world is on top of me Pessimism is an emotion, not a Knowing what's wrong doesn't imply that you And its another, you suffer to apply it in life But I'm no And I'm never gonna make the same mistake pussy