Jericho Jackson

Seventeen
At seventeen, you wouldn't be the youngest corpse heaven's seen For a pair of Air Jordans size 11 clean You would hustle during REM hours If you pushed up daisies or gaury stem flowers Look alive Now everyone has your best interests at heart Wouldn't be close if y'all was interests apart The interesting part At sixteen, you work a shift at Mickey D's Read comic books, kept your room clean, and your grades up But now they slippin' Like bloods hanging where they crippin' Put the cock back, stick the clip in You see how girls love the jewelry drippin' And gossipin' about what they whippin' You and them never locked lips when you were sixteen You lost your virginity a month ago Weeks before that, you started puffin' dro Hangin' with the wrong crowd, joyridin' in the stolen car Bangin' songs loud Mom's kicked you out the crib 'Cause you stayed out all night, stay high all day, and that will make you fight You thinking you grown You only seventeen You wouldn't be the youngest corpse that heaven's seen For a pair of Air Jordans size 11 clean SongtexteYou would run up on a n, steal somebody's car, empty out the reverend's jeans Now you off the pills Pushing wheels And stacking up some dollar bills How it feels To live the life you hear about portrayed inside of rap songs and see inside of movies made by Paramount Your mom's praying for, you wonder what the prayer 'bout Is it the duck low in areas that your rivals' airing out? Last week your man's got shot, but he recovered He came home, murdered one and looking for the other So now you stay strapped at all times 'Cause life involves crime that could kill you like the fall from a tall climb Plus you live under the same roof with his granny Livin' wild, taking xanny, sniffin' nose candy When you got the call from your first telling you that she hasn't had her period Of course she wasn't hearing it Young and inexperienced You were just sixteen last year Working drive thru as a cashier Sometimes you past there and reminisce Now you in some hot water and your choices are to swim a fish 'Cause last night is when your spot got raided Be lucky that no hotshot sprayed it You thinking you grown, you only seventeen You wouldn't be the youngest corpse that heaven's seen For a pair of Air Jordans size 11 clean You would risk it all Keep your mouth shut or stab a knife into your brethren's spleen Those are repercussions that you probabaly ain't seen Hope you make better decisions when you eighteen If you doing jailtime and swipe the slate clean Hope you make better decisions when you eighteen Once you learn the definition of what fate mean Hope you make better decisions when you- *gun shot* Too many fake friendships nowadays I'm gonna give you my own insight on this subject When we talk of people not being who they say they are We meet people, they turn on us, they change We're like, "Wait a minute. What are you doing?" I say it's all about looking how to attract positive versions of yourself and negative versions of yourself You see, a lot of us We see someone and they're smiling, they're happy, they're singing, they're full of joy And we say, "Oh, I like that person." But you haven't seen their other side Now depending on which side they show you That is gonna form an image of them in your mind That is why a lot of us, we don't show our negative side to people Because otherwise, we're not gonna have any friends I say, it's all about knowing who you are to attract the right people to assist you in becoming your greatest version When we talk of how to spot a fake friend or how to find the right friend I say, for instance, right now in this social media world You can have thousands of friends, but ask yourself On a rainy day when you're home alone, will they be around? Will they be around when the times are hard? Probably not Aus Songtexte Mania