Transformation - Fabolous

I'm old enough to know better young enough to not give a f**k

Rather hold my head high and die than living dumb

Remember I was down to die just to live it up

But life's a b**ch and I judge it's quickly given up

They say that life is short several looking through the bars

Gotta keep your head up I be looking to the stars

I be doing like wasn't looking for no cause

They ain't k**l me though now I'm here looking at the scars

Sometimes you get caught by people looking from a far

That's how it is when you out here taking cookies from a jar

That's what my son said they came and took him and his draws

He support the family they took the mama favorite bro

To face that's my favorite bar

Here's the rainy days they say you should be saving for

But when sun shines no one carries umbrellas

And if they did they be looking dumb like dumbfellas

I'm trying to become some they probably become jealous

Have a lot to say about it but afraid to come tell us

I'm here to beat the odds that were set against me

Wished the worst left to anyone who bet against me

I wanna be somebody somebody that's never been

No squares in my circle best shape I ever been

I'm growing up my daddy planted a seed

My mama watered me with a plan to succeed

I was that kid in the ghetto hand full of seeds

But I'm here now and I don't play a receipt

Sometimes I think I love to back a right time

Imagine I would've f**ked up that night slime

It hurts to even think about it

Would be in the streets thirsty trying to get a drink about it

Black pouty I pull that quarto cinque

While they put that iron to your clothes

Like I'm taking wrinkles out it

Take every Franklin Grant Jackson and Lincoln out it

Look you in the eyes and tell you don't you even think about it

So as you're hearing dropping this rhyme

Know that my opportunity couldn't be stopped at a dime

The life you chose come from lack of options in time

Gotta do what you gotta do even acting a crime

And who am I Without a name dropping an arm

Someone who sold a copy and then he just stopped he just climbed

Someone who get money without dropping a dime

Transform to your leader and my optimus prime

So for dinner you're stopping at prom

Run at your patron top of the line

Hold 'em up look at your niggers and say

There was no way out but we figured a way

And now we chill loaded up a still

I just wish a n****r would but I know a n****r will

But for real good is how you feel

But as soon as a n****r good is as soon as a n****r will

And we don't own these niggers nothing

Put that in a n****r will yeah