Lyrics Introduction - Kid Buddha

Buddha I'm that kid allow me to introduce
I just got it how I live I couldn't play it by the rules
And if I told you what I did you would say I was a fool
See I was selling work while y'all niggas went to school
Cause I got sick of them vouchers buying my clothes n shoes
Embarrassed every time them stamps bought the family food
Cuz if you lived the life I did you wouldn't know how to move
Since an adolescent life lessons taught me how to lose
Pain run deep up in these streets but I just had to play it cool
This shit was never how we planned it streets don't give no second chances
Whole heart been in these streets even though it left me damaged
Cuz we never pictured this my life flashed cuffs on wrist
Petty crimes and lil shit put me in the back of that limo tint
I had some niggas doing bids so I had to do it big
Product of the circumstance I had to get it how I lived
Just nigga from the hood I had rap n dope dreams

Only time he show ambition when he serving them dope feens
Momma worried bout him said he gon get it wit no means
Really staying to myself my own family don't know me
Tried to get my feelings back but my heart was so deep
Can't show weakness cause these demons they been praying on that mindset
Stay down till you come up god tell me it's my time yet
Had to grow up so fast thinking back like where the time went
They been asking who I am but I'm still tryna find that

They counted me out as just a nigga from the projects
Just a kid still trapping outta section 8 apartments
From a place where them mommas gon leave they fucking babies starving
Knew I had to get out this place addiction fell upon my momma
A place that turn the strongest niggas into alcoholics
Just a kid from the bottom who grew up in all that
Was never meant to make it what the fuck you wanna call that
I saw a better route I seen them same niggas fall back
The easy way out know how many times that I done thought that
Poverty and the system know how many times that I done fought back
Niggas I lost to the streets know how many times I done saw that
They say time is money but I wish I could trade it all back
Stuck in my ways I had to get up on some different shit
Same shit they talk about I never seen em living it
Can't see my cousin I know it gets harder on them Christmases
Gotta go farther then what them other niggas wish we did

Played the streets smarter got em claiming that they miss the kid
Never chose this shit I just ain't have no other options
Had to get it how I lived so I was trappin shit n Robbing
So my skeletons I'll probably never clean up out my closet
So caught up in the mix like wit myself I wasn't honest
Like be real you ain't a gangster nigga promise you don't want this shit
The field wit gangbangers you gon end up like ya father did
N I got love for you ma but I gotta go farther than my momma did

Looking back on it all now like how tf did this happen
Nigga I done really seen my whole turn addicts
N I'm just giving yall my story this shit I seen on the average
Started fuckin wit this pen I put my all in this rapping
They was waiting for me to fall I never let that shit happen
Back then so many questions how the fuck am I gon make it out
Trails and tribulations start to see what we done prayed about
Times I stayed patient in this game you gotta play the routes
Grinding I was waiting every move I gotta make it count
The second that I lose these niggas gon take me out
So much shit to prove I came from sleeping on my niggas couch
N then they got the nerve to ask the shit that keep me going
Nigga I done missed so many Christmases out there when it was snowing
Ain't have shit up on my Christmas list just wishing n hoping
At this point I ain't rapping just putting pain in these poems
You gon fall victim to the system was the shit that they told him

So now he moving wit a mission big chip on his shoulder
Locked in he ain't slipping he ain't sippin he sober
He Starts to understand his feelings n how to control em
He got the vision He ain't quitting he won't sleep til it's over
So when he spitting he start trippin on all the pain that he holding
Shoulda been dead or in prison but god felt like he Chosen
A product of the system was a victim to corruption
You could say you know me now but this was just the introduction