Yeah, can we get the mic up just a bit Yeah Papertoy on the beat Somebody tell us 'bout the way we livin' (Way we livin') Some brother's dead and some are sent to prison (Sent to prison) When I was young, you couldn't tell us different (Tell us different) But then again, you weren't in our position, look into the Eyes of a teen who's never had nothing (Nah) Smoking bongs and drinking [?] with the speaker pumping (Shit) Down [?] fifty-deep, relocate to the beach A hundred teens getting chased by them punk police And it was all fun and games until these drugs came (Drugs came) Popping pills and drinking liquor till the sun came Ain't nobody there to tell us from a man's view I was snorting coke and selling drugs like a man do, at least that's what I thought I know that's not the way I was taught But there's some things a single mother couldn't teach us, of course I learned my lesson from the street and nearly paid the price Overdosing in the park and nearly took my life And now I'm watching as a friend, he's lost it all to ice Thinking will he ever get away from smoking glass pipes Now he's at the bottom, old friends forgot him Tried to get away but everybody tried to rob him Ain't nobody there to guide him, he just copy what he's seen Followed all the older kids, he turned into a fiend So now I stop and think about my message to these teens Ain't no role model here, just a brother with a dream, I just wanna see a change Now everybody's asking me to change (Me to change) I'm just tryna take away the pain (All the pain) Everything that I was taught was in this bottle All we know is what we see, and we ain't have no role models (Nah) Everybody asking me to change (Me to change) I'm just tryna take away the pain (All the pain) Everything that I was taught was in this bottle (Ayy, ayy) All we know is what we see, and we ain't have no role models (Ayy) Old scars with new ways to cope Old ways was smoke weed, pills and coke Long days, my mum seen it the most I was thinking 'bout my neck in a rope, that's why I can't go back Glad I got my life on track Now I can finally be the father that I never had I keep my mind on my money, so we can never be broke And on my time, because I know how much she needed that In a position, these kids always need a person to listen Always felt I was alone, 'cause we ain't had no pot to piss in I was sixteen with big dreams of mad living No role models, just older cousins that's drug dealing Ice addicts and alcoholics in my building 2035, that's the place that I got my life visions All I know is I'ma keep with the facts I changed my life, and I ain't ever going back, I gotta be that role model Now everybody's asking me to change (Me to change) I'm just tryna take away the pain (All the pain) Everything that I was taught was in this bottle All we know is what we see, and we ain't have no role models (Nah) Everybody asking me to change (Me to change) I'm just tryna take away the pain (All the pain) Everything that I was taught was in this bottle All we know is what we see, and we ain't have no role models Nah, we ain't never had no role models All I ever knew in this bottle Mama always try to teach you morals, but it's Hard when you don't really give a fuck about tomorrow We ain't never had no role models All I ever knew in this bottle Mama always try to teach you morals, but it's Hard when you don't really give a fuck about tomorrow