Lyrics Who I Am - China Mac

Take a look at my pain
Take a look at my scars
I'm amazed to see
I came this far
But it made me who I am
(Ah)
Take a look at my past
Take a look at my eyes
Take a look at how I fall, I rise
But it made me who I am

Yo, they wanna know about me; they intrigued
Wanna know about my story; wanna know what makes me, me
Wanna know if I'm pretended or am really a G
Wanna know if I'm really that person that they perceive
I was born on two-five nineteen-eighty-one
The year Reaganomics officially begun
The year Bob Marley died my Mama had a son
My Pop had better things to do; he didn't come
So out came a Winter Baby, born into the cold
Mama said I didn't cry. Said I came out so controlled
She was going through a lot. Everything was so hazy
Happy to have me but didn't know if she could raise me
She was only eighteen, herself still a baby
Born into a land that was new and so crazy
She was all alone and was looking for love
While my Pops was looking for girls and smuggling drugs
To him, money was more important than raising a son
Got my wildin' on these streets, got me raisin' my gun
I was a Goonie up in juvy razor blade in the tongue
Felt like the world was caving in, suffocating my lungs
Only one of my kind, had me losing my mind
They was giving me meds, prepping me to do time
All this pain in my head, translated to crime
Put the blood in my pen, [that] I used to write all my rhymes!

Take a look at my pain
Take a look at my scars
I'm amazed to see
I came this far
But it made me who I am
(Ah)
Take a look at my past
Take a look at my eyes
Take a look at how I fall, I rise
But it made me who I am

I was six when the Feds came knocking on the door
Me and my mama home; they came searching for that row
Didn't know what was going on, found out that Pops got caught slipping
Somebody gave him word, there's birds in Mom's kitchen
So they came through deep, brought my Mama out of sleep
I followed them down the stairs, even though my body weak
I was staring out the door, at the sirens in the street
Who I thought was a hero, transformed into a beast!
Never the same, I was different from the pain I was given
Headed on the wrong route, fast lane to a prison
Mama couldn't save me: I was sold to the life
Learned living was a gamble; I was rolling the dice
A teen stuck in a system, I was earning my stripes
But I learned how to write a rhyme —learned how to fight!
I was locked up in the can when I turned into a man
Then I didn't understand, but it made me who I am

Take a look at my pain
Take a look at my scars
I'm amazed to see
I came this far
But it made me who I am
(Ah)
Take a look at my past
Take a look at my eyes
Take a look at how I fall —I rise!
But it made me who I am
(Ah)
Take a look at my pain
Take a look at my scars
I'm amazed to see
I came this far
But it made me who I am
(Ah)
Take a look at my past
Take a look at my eyes
Take a look at how I fall, I rise
And it made me who I am