[Boots]
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Well, he was smilin' like a vulture as he rolled up the horticulture
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Ignited it, and said, "I hope the vapors don't insult ya"
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What I replied denied, but he mixin weed and hop
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His head was noddin' up and down like he agreed a lot
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Bored, said, "We need a plot," I comply, "Let's leave the spot"
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Hopped in the Granada, he's impressed by the beat I got
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His name is "hay-zoos" but his pimp name is "gee-zus"
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Slapped a hoe to pieces with his plastic prosthesis
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"Nigga don't you know that I'm your daddy?" said he
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This is true, plus he schooled me for my mackin' degree
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"Never plea, try not to flee, make niggaz pee when you stick around"
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This man my momma had found taught me to put it down
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I press the gas to the ground to show that I'm a hound
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Makin' sho' that get rubber sound is heard throughout the town
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Thirty years ago, Jesus could pull a hoe quick
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But now he 50 and his belly hangs lower than his dick
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Philosophy that he spit stuck in my memory chips
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And now he puttin' in a disk of Gladys Knight and the Pips
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Then that shit starts to skip, he said, "Somebody musta scratch it"
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Put the 40 to his lips and poured the contents down the hatchet
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Well since my adolescense, cause of his pimp lessons
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smack my woman in the dental just for askin' silly questions
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Relationship reduction to either rock the box or suction
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Ain't got no close potnahs, socially I cain't function
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From the pen he would scribe, on how to survive:
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"Don't be Microsoft, be Macintosh with a Hard Drive"
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Used to tell me all the time to keep a bitch broke
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Did I mention that my momma was his number one hoe?
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Clunked the 40 on the flo' and placed his palm on the dash
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and wheezed out, "C'mon man, make this motherfucker mash!"
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Ain't gon' mash too fast, cause my tags ain't right
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Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada last night
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Chorus: *sung* (2X)
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Oakland do you wanna ride?
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I can't hear you! Oakland do you wanna ride tonight?
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[Boots]
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City lights from far way can makeyou drop yo' jaw
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Sparklin' like sequins on a transvestite at Mardi Gras
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There's beauty in the cracks of the cement
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When I was five I hopped over them wherever we went to prevent
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whatever it was that could break my momma's back
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Little did I know that it would roll up in a Cadillac
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And matta-fact, she couldn't see him like a cataract
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And on the track, she went from beautiful to battleaxe
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And back at home, she would cry into her pillow
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Vomit in the commode, I was six years old
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I would crawl onto her lap and we would hug and hold
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She asked me what I thought of Jesus when he broke off some bread
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I said, "He missin' a arm, and he seem like a pee-pee head"
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She said, "Don't cuss," and my teeth to go brush
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And get ready for bed, and the toilet to flush
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With tears in my momma's eyes, I was her everything
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Before she went out on the stroll
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She'd tuck me into bed and sing:
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You're much too beautiful for words (4X)
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I see the red and white lights as the ambulance flies
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Reminds me of midnight in a dopefiend's eyes
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And my 9-year-old self as paramedics leave
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Left to ball my eyes out on a neighbor's sleeve
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To make illustrations that are clear and clean
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I'll take you two hours back before this scene:
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Early in the morning when the sun starts to creep
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When the birds start to chirp and crackheads go to sleep
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Moms was comin' in I heard her keys go clink
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Wearin' nothin' but pumps, bikini, and fake mink
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Even though she served, for fifty dollars-a-pop
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Hardly had enough for rent after Jesus re-copped
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That day the landlady got her rent befo' he got his knot
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Slammed momma's head against the front bolt lock
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Then the pump wit one arm done harm
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Reached back and plowed into her head like a farm
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Never saw the act, locked in the back, I was cussin'
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Heard the blap blap of tewnty headcrack percussion
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and body blows, her body froze from bolo's to the spine
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I was hysterically cryin', all she could do was whine
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| She didn't even have the strength to say, |
