Father Figure Skating

[Hook] You can paint a picture of my outcome Still won't make a difference where I come from You can walk away from me There's nothing more to say to me I'm father figure skating Try to tell me something cause it's different now But let me count the ways that I can show you how You got a lot to say to me, but really you just playing me [Verse 1] Born 11, 1976 In the midst of conflicts Me the quick fix from the Potential tomb to the womb to the emergency room Escaped doom, soon to bloom Even though my pops plan could never defeat us Cause between us, when I was a fetus Was greeted by Jesus Introduced me to a world that turns and burns Where hate is the worm that spreads the germ Never concerned cause I made it through the pregnancy term Learned at an early age that you must stand firm So I breathe, stretch, bless the Lord They used a double-edged sword to clip the cord It was my first taste of pain With much more to come Screaming while they extract the mucus from my lungs With me, the new addition make the family complete We made it home in a stolen car seat It's all sweet and calm until your mom gets beat Call it common occurrences, doomed to repeat Cause home was a prison and a nursery combined We learned how to deal cause we never could malign Cause daddy was a misfit, chasing crime My mom had to be a father at the same time But when you live by the gun, you end up getting shot So you can rest in unrest, pop [Hook] [Verse 2] Skate to California state after age 8 Now with a stepdad everything's great I start to get attention for the first time And in the public he fronts and tells everyone "He's mine" We develop a kinship, a father-son relationship But if good things often come to an end, you get stripped We got a new addition to the family And since he's the seed from my stepdad's tree He found no obligation to invest in me The best in me considers daddy's testing me with lessons of letting me Feel withdrawn, as time moves on We found it very difficult to get along So it was better to debt instead of letting him get me upset Cause running away begets tryna forget I met the beat and felt complete The unique sense of concrete deletes all these feelings of being weak The past pain was forgot, cause hip hop was everything my pops was not It was life, love, a place to build A place to get acknowledged when I flex my skill It was a platform, a stage, a place to shine A spot of acceptance to say "He's mine" See, hip hop's the place where it all began It helped me father figure skate around a stepdad [scam] [Hook]