"Herbert Anthony you need to get you life together" That's my momma bothered by how I live life like whatever They say I'm pressed for time, but I don't press the issue I just stay on my grind, chain smoking marijuan help me free my mind What a coincidence, like feeling guilt trickin by your innocence In a sense I'm livin in my second childhood Don't pay a lick of rent, rhyme, eat, sleep, and shit And when you twenty-two that don't sound good Maybe if I went to school it'll be cool I've have something to fall back on if this rap don't crack Perhaps I'd have a better story had I sold crack Let's go back, to Carson high fluctuating my goals Writing rhymes through the lecture knew I should've took notes Sometimes I think I'm running in place, chasing hopes Rejoice my name as Ab-Soul or is it average joe All this commotion goes in one ear, out the other I'm still gone make it, one way or the other (Quit acting like a kid herb, gone be a man It's a man's world, how you suppose to feed your fam You need to act more like an adult, pull up your pants I know you do music but what's your plan B man) If I knew when I was younger would I grew to know I coulda tackle things more different, coulda been more defensive Coulda been more responsible, coulda been more persistent But I didn't and I ain't repenting My parents wake up in the morning to a cup of coffee Then go off to work it kills'em when I'm still in bed snoring Only if they knew, their young boy was in the stu 'Til like 5 AM cookin up classics to make them Proud it's house niggas that could stay in That was rather rash, but you can replace this scraps with straight cash I told jay I'm a buy you a house one day I probably send Katie & [?] to college too But right now I'm broke as a joke, I should do comedy Dude, I need a job, somebody hire me fast So I could win my girl over, she probably cheatin on my ass You motherfuckers better try and snatch her while she up for grabs It's like real difficult to articulate it It's like you got your goals, you got your aspirations Your dreams, and you chasing that, you pursuing that But in-turn it cost for you to sacrifice alot of your availability to go out their and get this paper, nah mean? It's hard to say you a man still and livin at your momma house Yo, I had a conversation with my step-pops Basically inquiring the time frame when I'm a pop I told'em I ain't know but I'm determined to blow Not like a fluffer, more like plaques that's platinum and gold That's on my great-grandmother He shook his head and said: "I don't know much about the music industry but what's been said The people ain't making no bread, let's be more realistic How you gone take care of a wife? how you gone feed your children I'm on my knees everyday tryna provide for ya'll I bought that car that you dippin, but you don't chip in You shouldve went to UCLA, like your cousin Jay He got a big signing bonus, every year like 80k" I looked him in the face and said "it ain't about the money And honestly buying an education sounds funny But have a little faith in your son, I'll come through for ya" He said be a man Herb, that's all I really want from ya