Hopeless Boy - King Lil G

[00:15.88]Yo **** rapping & bragging about the way you ballin'
[00:19.00]Spray cans in my backpack and I was starvin'
[00:21.55]In middle school with a trey five-seven revolver
[00:24.17]My family said I wouldn't make it, now i'm grindin' hard
[00:26.72]I dedicated this to the kids growin' up with no father
[00:29.21]Believe me I know what you goin' through I almost lost it
[00:31.82]Ever seen a teenage boy whose feelin' like robbin'?
[00:34.45]That was me at 14, I was driving through compton
[00:37.00]On my way to inglewood I was thinkin' of nonsense
[00:39.35]Somebody tagging on the wall so I had to go cross it
[00:41.99]********** I had guns in my mother's closet
[00:44.30]The day she caught me, tear drops started falling
[00:47.20]Then she slapped me in the face
[00:48.38]Looking brokenhearted
[00:49.69]How the **** do I explain that my hood is stronger
[00:52.22]Enemies is lookin' for me 2 in the morning
[00:54.68]It's been about the 2 weeks and she still ignores me
[00:57.35]I'm ******* up so much as hate, that is building towards me
[00:59.85]She's on the phone with my fam saying I'm disappointing
[01:03.68]Saying I'm disappointing
[01:05.78]Oh man, I'm a disappointment
[01:08.18]As I sit all alone with pain
[01:12.15]I wonder - will I ever see my mother smile?
[01:14.55]I wonder - will I ever see my mother smile?
[01:18.40]Am I ever gonna see that day
[01:22.10]We stop strugglin'
[01:24.15]Will I ever see my mother smile?
[01:25.00]Strugglin', yea..
[01:27.32]
[01:27.40]Yo, would you like to know why I was so troublesome?
[01:30.25]That eviction notice on my door ,ade me hustle drugs
[01:33.05]I seen my mother crying
[01:34.05]1999
[01:35.00]My father left us behind
[01:36.27]My feelings empty inside
[01:37.78]I try to not miss 'em
[01:39.05]Me & my older sister
[01:40.50]Carina please tell 'em bout that ****** up christmas
[01:42.88]I had to go to school lying to my friends
[01:45.05]Pretending I was happy bout some **** I didn't get
[01:47.93]Fake smiles through the whole winter
[01:49.75]I was cold wearing old clothes and socks with holes in 'em
[01:53.55]Gang members I was close with 'em
[01:55.33]I was just a kid
[01:56.40]They was asking me to do some coke with 'em
[01:58.69]I was broke, man I rather sell some **** with 'em
[02:01.17]Road trips to the border to go get 'em
[02:03.75]Young & hopeless
[02:04.55]Trying to get in to show biz
[02:06.05]Hoping they would give me a chance
[02:07.50]Nobody noticed
[02:09.55]As I sit all alone with pain
[02:13.29]I wonder - will I ever see my mother smile?
[02:16.05]I wonder - will I ever see my mother smile?
[02:19.68]Am I ever gonna see that day
[02:23.45]We stop strugglin'
[02:24.88]Will I ever see my mother smile?
[02:26.35]Strugglin', yea..
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[02:31.25]Oh man, you know what really trips me out is that uh..
[02:35.90]People really think I owe them somethin'
[02:38.40]You know I hear people talkin' all the time
[02:42.00]But its like they don't know the struggle and the **** we gotta go through to get to where we are right now (but I don't owe them a damn thing)
[02:47.68]I had to sacrifice so much time, you know
[02:51.55]Had to put my family trough so much pain
[02:56.00]It's like everything that I got right now, I owe it to the family
[03:01.70]Finally my mother can smile now
[03:07.55]Oh yeah