A Message-Akala

[ti:A Message] [ar:Akala] [al:Knowledge is Power Mixtape Vol.1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Message - Akala [00:04.96]Yo listen [00:07.09] [00:16.19]Uh listen [00:17.64] [00:19.75]Why are men so weak [00:21.15]I aint got the answer [00:22.54]Any boy could bust a nut [00:23.74]Takes a man to be a father [00:25.21]And a partner [00:25.72]Especially young and poor makes it harder [00:27.56]So we f**k and flee the glee of dicks harder [00:29.61]See every man wanna be loved as much as women do [00:31.78]But we are men who we gonna admit it to [00:34.88]Especially in the streets where we pose like a killer do [00:37.27]When we say that that go for our sisters too [00:39.09]And I aint sayin i'm perfect far from it [00:41.57]Chauvinistic pig but sh*t i'm working on it [00:44.17]From the day I woke up and realised that I hated women [00:47.40]Which is dumb cause I was only raised with women [00:49.68]I aint sayin they're perfect they would admit they aint [00:51.79]But they aint doin 99 percent of the rape [00:53.70]Male supremacy got us thinking its cool [00:56.46]And women are just objects we do things to [00:58.66] [00:59.97]This is a message to my little sisters [01:01.44]Growing up in this world with no father figures [01:03.60] [01:04.27]Deep down need that love from a man [01:07.08]So she get it any way that she can [01:08.84]Yo this is a message to my little brothers [01:11.37]Growing up in this cold world with only mothers [01:13.65]Trying your hardest to be a man [01:16.19]Gettin the gram feed the fam only way you can [01:18.79] [01:19.39]Most mothers acted exactly like most daddies do [01:21.55]There will be an even bigger bigger bag of [01:23.66]Runnin the streets feelin unloved [01:25.06]How many so called thugs that grew up with only mums [01:28.17]What if daddy stayed around showed what a man's about [01:31.00]What if he wasn't eight when he became the man of the house [01:34.18]Where would he be now [01:35.12]Disciplined smarter [01:35.45]Mums wouldn't have kicked him out for looking just like a partner [01:37.44]Instead when she glanced at her son [01:39.04]Its a reminder of the beatings that he gave her [01:41.52]How he mentally enslaved her [01:42.80]All the while he was abusin [01:44.22]She looked at him like a saviour [01:45.54]But nobody but herself could save her [01:47.07]And now her eldest son in and out of prison and women like his daddy [01:50.31]And daughter 15 dropping a baby on the family [01:52.73] [01:58.84]This is a message to my little sisters [02:00.35]Growing up in this world with no father figures [02:02.44] [02:03.23]Deep down needing love from a man [02:05.57]So she get it any way that she can [02:07.49]Yo this is a message to my little brothers [02:10.92]Growing up in this cold world with only mothers [02:12.72] [02:13.40]Trying your hardest to be a man [02:15.24]Get the grams feed the fam only way you can [02:17.71] [02:19.81]Listen what about the daughters [02:22.87]We always hear about the boys madness [02:24.32]What about the girls born to a dad absent [02:26.50]Told her she was the princess [02:27.73]Him and mummy fell out ever since then quickly just lost interest [02:30.81] [02:31.75]On to the next piece of skirt with a thin dress [02:34.90]Odd the lessons we learnt we don't send less [02:37.38]We leave daughters just because we can [02:39.65]And she after any affection she can have in a man [02:42.08]Same type of girl we turn and call her slag [02:44.18]Aint sayin I never did it i'm just sayin its mad [02:46.43]Cos cuz been 15 and suicidal sad [02:48.41]I don't know what it was maybe I miss my dad [02:51.87]All the things I never had making me mad [02:54.07]In a world that says you don't have your basically bad [02:56.68]If we have half the parents are we half the person [02:59.14]And has it always been like this [03:00.71]Is it the curse of men [03:01.97]But then again even if they stay together [03:03.78] [03:04.51]I don't know its necessarily better [03:06.05]If they're at each others throats or just plain ignore [03:08.20]Parents they f**k you up they do that's for sure [03:10.53]Then we grow up and we turn out just like you [03:14.34]The question is can we break the cycle