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Mama I'm a Criminal

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Mama I'm a Criminal

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Mama I'm a Criminal

Mama I'm a Criminal

Mama I'm a Criminal

Criminal

Criminal

Mama I'm a Criminal

Mama I'm a Criminal

Mama I'm a Criminal

Criminal

Criminal

A place where death doesn't reside, just thugs who collide

No start beef but spark trees, no cops rollin' by

No policemen, no homicide, no chalk on the streets

No reason for nobody's momma to cry

See I'm a good guy, I'm tryin' to stick around

For my daughter, but if I should die

I know all of my albums support her

This whole year's been crazy

Asked the Holy Spirit to save me

Only difference from me and Ossie Davis, gray hair maybe

'Cause I feel like my eyes saw too much sufferin'

I'm just twenty-some-odd years

I done lost my mother and I cried tears of joy

I know she smiles on her boy

I dream of you more, my love goes to Afeni Shakur

'Cause like Ann Jones, she raised a ghetto king in a war

And just for that alone she shouldn't feel no pain no more

'Cause one day we'll all be together

Sippin' heavenly champagne

Where angels soar with golden wings in Thugz Mansion

Mama I'm a Criminal

(I want you to close your eyes)

Mama I'm a Criminal

(And vision the most beautiful place in the world)

Mama I'm a Criminal

(If you in the hood on the ghetto street corner)

Criminal

(Come on this journey, the best journey)

Criminal

(A mansion, acres of land and swimming pools)

Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good

Tell the homies I'm in Heaven and they ain't got hoods

Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook

Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke

Then some lady named Billie Holiday sang

Sittin' there kickin' it with Malcom 'til the day came

Little LaTasha sho' grown

Tell the lady in the liquor store that she's forgiven

So come home maybe in time you'll understand

Only God can save us, when Miles Davis cuttin' lose with the band

Just think of all the people that you knew in the past

That passed on, they in Heaven, found peace at last

Picture a place that they exist, together

There has to be a place better than this, in Heaven

So right before I sleep, dear God, what I'm askin'

Remember this face

Save me a place in Thugz Mansion

Mama I'm a Criminal

(I want you to close your eyes)

Mama I'm a Criminal

(And vision the most beautiful place in the world)

Mama I'm a Criminal

(If you in the hood on the ghetto street corner)

Criminal

(Come on this journey, the best journey)

Criminal

Dre, I'm down here, under the ground, dig me up!

Broken tibias, fibias, yeah, fix me up

Sixty sluts, all of them dyin' from asphyxia

After they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippy cup

Dixie cups, toxins, boxes of Oxy pads

Enough Oxycontin to send a fuckin' ox to rehab

Wack job in the black in a black stocking cap

Jackin' off to a hockey mask at a boxing match

(He can't say that!) Yes, he can

I just did, faggot, now guess again

Better text message your next-of-kin

tell'em shit's about to get extra messy

Especially when I flex again

And throw a fuckin' lesbian in wet cement

Faggoty, faggoty, faggoty! Raggedy Ann and Andy

No! Raggedy Andy and Andy

No, it can't be, it can't be-yes, it can be

The fuckin' Anti-Christ is black, Dante

It's Satan in black satin panties

This is Amityville, calamity, goddddamn it

Insanity, pills, fanny pack filled with Xannies

Through every nook and cranny, lookin' for trannies

Milk and cookies spilled on my silk negligee, looky

Razor-ba-lades with me to make you ba-leed

Cases of Maybelline makeup lay on a table of weed

Slim Shady? Shit sounds like a fable to me

'Til he jumps out of the fuckin' toilet

When you're takin' a pee

Mama I'm a Criminal

(I want you to close your eyes)

Mama I'm a Criminal

(And vision the most beautiful place in the world)

Mama I'm a Criminal

(If you in the hood on the ghetto street corner)

Criminal

(Come on this journey, the best journey)

Criminal

(A mansion, acres of land and swimming pools)

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