A Charmed Life

[Hook]

Africa, Purta Prince, Knoxville, Ann Van, Manhattan, South Band, Albany, Brooklyn (repeat 4x)

Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at

This is autobiographical takin' you back

I lived a Charmed Life, we're going back in the years

Imagine if my whole world flashed before your ears

[Verse 1]

I've been around the sun 25 times,

And I still find new ways to recognize shine

It's like life gets better with age

The way a song sounds better on stage

And rhyme books get better with each page

Before the first bar was written'

Or first verse was spittin'

Before label excets was bullshittin'

Way back when Aunty Leen,

Aunt Mimi, and Aunt Jackie were babysittin'

Before food was bitten, consumed through a nipple

I'm talkin about when times were simple

To make a long story short it goes

Purta Prince, Knoxville, Ann Van

Love in the City that never sleeps

Some thoughts to finish, I was born just a couple of weeks late

Stay home long just to mke sure everything was on straight

All systems go, cut the umbilical chord

From old earth to new earth Manhattan to turf

For what it's worth, my mom held me down one deep

Pops was absentee, but minds you don't see

It took a village to raise me, Leen tought me how to read

By the time I went to school, I was at high speed

Ready willing and able, Jackie tought me how to add

With dried up black-eyed peas on the kitchen table

And coming ome to a mother's love and good care

Never wantin' him, it was always enough

Except when it came to education,

It's like she had one rule,

There's no such thing as too much school

Not to mention Leen tought me how to play the piano

And then, every summer I was out at South Bnd

Grampaps a bartender at a country club

Me and my cousin from Grand Rapids was livin it up

Me Granny watchin Notre Dame football