Gangstas Cry (Feat. K-Young)-Crooked I

[ti:Gangstas Cry (Feat. K-Young)] [ar:Crooked I] [al:Planet C.O.B Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gangstas Cry (Feat. K-Young) - Crooked I [00:04.15]It's real life man you know saying [00:07.67] [00:09.71]My life is like an open book for everybody listening to this CD man [00:13.04] [00:14.54]I got to keep it real with y'all I mean [00:16.84]I got the opportunity to go to ms [00:19.78]Afeni skakur's house you know what I'm saying [00:21.25] [00:22.07]The mother of the great 2 pac shakur [00:23.51] [00:24.28]And when I was sitting in her back yard [00:26.26]All I could think about is how I missed her son's real a** music [00:29.07] [00:29.63]You know I mean [00:30.28] [00:32.45]Yeah we got to continue in that tradition [00:36.06] [00:38.58]We can't let it stop there man even if I die tomorrow [00:43.03]Y'all wouldn't know what was on my mind [00:44.56] [00:45.90]And what was on the minds of young niggas in the ghetto [00:48.29]In the struggle you nahmean [00:50.17] [00:51.91]Yeah it's real to me man [00:53.11] [00:55.11]So many memories I don't understand [00:56.52] [00:57.46]They got me weak in my knees like I don't wanna stand [00:59.71] [01:00.41]I try to snap back like a rubber band [01:02.91]But flashbacks got another plan to bury this rap cat under land [01:07.05] [01:07.64]My closest aunt fell victim to a madman [01:10.61]He raped her he stabbed her he threw her in a trash can [01:13.76]In tulsa oklahoma the home of the gap band [01:16.25] [01:16.93]They buried charlene boomie my biggest rap fan [01:19.41] [01:20.07]I can't express how I missed the time I spent with you [01:23.25]God why did he have to kill my mama's twin sister [01:25.90] [01:26.41]Ni**a you lucky cops sent you to jail [01:28.21] [01:28.86]Cause I was coming to send you to hell after my chopper's wing split you [01:32.94]I was just a shorty when my cousin bobby died [01:35.23] [01:35.78]A star running back for long beach's poly high [01:38.35] [01:38.97]His best friend and his wife set off the drama right [01:41.66] [01:42.20]He caught them in bed which led to his homicide [01:44.73] [01:45.25]Right on his deathbed prepared to die [01:47.82]He wrote a song for his wife the title that's not a fair goodbye [01:51.21] [01:51.72]Cause goddamn that's not a fair goodbye [01:53.41] [01:53.97]Young or not guns I would have popped for you where was I [01:57.97]I can't forget my aunt zeb it's your neph [02:00.54]Since you left I've been missing you and I will until my last breath [02:04.06]Why did so many loved ones have to meet a fast death [02:07.34]They wanted me to succeed how can I half step huh [02:10.69] [02:11.54]Look up in the sky tears in my eyes [02:14.94]It's hard to say goodbye even gangstas cry [02:17.47]I'm in a dark room talking to pictures [02:20.03]Too many loved ones lost and I miss you god knows that I miss you [02:24.40]And even though I'm strong now that you're gone [02:27.22]It's hard to carry on even gangstas cry [02:30.19]Late at night I get lost in the scriptures [02:32.53]Wish I could dig off in your coffin and get you I miss you [02:35.79]I put my pain on paper there's nothing else I can do to remove it [02:39.22]My music is therapeutic if I don't use it I lose it [02:42.62]It's so easy to pick up liquor and abuse it [02:44.93]When life is confusing you want a way that you need to view sh*t [02:48.91]I look at my gun and think of my buddies leaking bloody [02:52.17]Cause this is the same demon that took my people from me [02:55.31]A lot of my homies was killed over illegal money [02:58.32]I lost so many to banging that it ain't even funny [03:01.55]There's cookie there's raymond there's charles too many to name [03:04.56]It's solemn and shame it's pain in memories lane [03:07.78]It's a shame when obituaries stack thicker than dictionaries [03:11.49]I question is my mind is mentally sane [03:14.15]My uncle leroy is gone god let him in [03:16.49] [03:17.14]He was more of a father figure than his brother ever been [03:20.41]Look at my brain it's like the head of a veteran [03:22.91]I fight more pain than excedrin medicine ever did [03:25.92] [03:26.77]I can't sleep my nightmares are coming unannounced [03:29.96]I dream about people I love cause I'm running out [03:33.04]It's rap lyrics my therapy they don't wanna bounce [03:36.12]It's trapped spirits I'm thinking my mind is a haunted house [03:39.32]Sometimes I pray to the creator till my knees hurt [03:42.35]I need work my granny used to say I need church [03:45.52]This is for my people beneath dirt [03:47.51]We making songs getting tattoos and rocking rest in peace T shirts [03:51.56] [03:52.39]Look up in the sky tears in my eyes [03:55.45]It's hard to say goodbye even gangstas cry [03:58.45]I'm in a dark room talking to pictures [04:00.69]Too many loved ones lost and I miss you god knows that I miss you [04:05.05]And even though I'm strong now that you're gone [04:08.04]It's hard to carry on even gangstas cry [04:11.07]Late at night I get lost in the scriptures [04:13.24]Wish I could dig off in your coffin and get you I miss you [04:16.01] [04:18.72]Look up in no gangstas cry woah oh [04:26.62] [04:30.07]And even though I'm strong it's hard to carry on no oh