Cuzinleth - Ninety Six

It's the year ninety six
First month, thirty first day
I got pinned to this earth in a cursed race
If it wasn't for my folks and my birth place
Maybe I'd be sitting on the street in the dirt (Hey)
Got a mother working hard never earned breaks
And she put me in school so I could learn straight
I mean there's worse ways
I could be spending all of my Thursdays
Hanging with the kids back in pre-K
Ninety nine
Couldn't tell you what the month was
Mum kicked dad to the curb
It was tough love
But the cunt didn't give a fuck
Never had a single buck
Couldn't care less
He just lived it up
Fair to say that she'd had enough
I mean
How could she live with a dick
That was dragging her down to his level
Now we're packing up and going our own way
She met another man and she fell in love
Oh one
Got a brother in my life now
Moved to a new crib
Shit it was a fine house
Never hungry there was always food in my mouth
Played sports didn't ever cop a time out
I was a good boy
Top of my class
Who would've thought 20 years on
I'm writing all these rhymes down
Never looked like the kind to be a lighthouse
Minded my own
I wasn't trying to raise an eyebrow
Started first grade
Made a few friends
It was all fun and games
Didn't care about the new trends
I didn't have a clear view then
Playing ball on the pitch with the crew
When my mum said
Son, we gotta make a move
Nothing in this city will be benefitting you
I will admit it was a bit of bitter news
But I didn't think much
Put the application through
Fast forward was the year oh eight man
Things didn't look so great
Had to escape
Copped tickets to the plane and we went straight
Out of our home
Off to start on a new take
I was thirteen didn't have no say
Took my whole life and put it in rotate
For a few years didn't really know mate
Now it seems to be okay
Nah oh nine
Twenty ten and eleven was a breeze man
Ain't Morgan but I feel like a free man
Opportunities I had to seize them
Mum and dad brought me here
I had to please them
Better work hard
Keep the grades up
Won't settle for C's
I needed A plus
Wasn't kicking many goals in my brain
But I didn't let them down
Always looking for that paper
Twenty thirteen
When I bounced out of high school
Knew for a little while I wanted to be viral
Spent days only listening to Ice Cube
Didn't wanna settle for the drive thru
Now I'm in vibe too
Since twenty nineteen
And I'm twenty four
Plenty more years in the grime scene
So I'll switch it up and
Spit a new rhyme scheme
Looking at me too
But I ain't Weinstein
Man I can't complain, I got a good life
Came from hell
But I'm showing them my white teeth
I'm not always smiley
But I might be
Man I broke free
From a bitch who didn't like me
But that's behind me looking at the stormy weather
And when you see me on the street I'm like a boring fella
I might've misplaced my brain
Inventory error
But when I smoke a jay I turn into a story teller
And feeling more than better
The years still go on till I'm touring heaven
I gotta leave a mark like I'm scorched in leather
But I was sure that never I could afford to get up
And just
Come through with the raw potential
Tell them of a life that was more sequential
Didn't know then I'd be so influential
But that's my life outlined like a stencil brah
And its just begun
Tell them now that its just begun (Yuh)
Only just begun
I'm making history once I been in this for months
Or maybe years to come
But its just begun
So maybe this the one
To make me hit the sun
Talking shit for fun
Nah man who am I kidding
Vibe with it 'cause I just begun
Vibe with it 'cause I just begun
Alive with it 'cause I just begun
Vibe with it like
Vibe with it yo
Since the year ninety six

Written by:
Ian Erasmus

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