Behind the Musik

Featuring Pee-Wee

June 26th 1975

In Miami Florida was the place where I first arrived

My parents smiled as I opened up my blue eyes

Cuz they was newly married and I was just their first child

My pop was from Jersey my mom was from Miami

They met in Bed Stuy Brooklyn New York City

At art college and yep they was hippies

So I guess that just makes me a child of the sixties

But anyway we didn't stay we moved to Plant City

Then to Lakeland then to Tampa then to Ybor City

Living in the hood where things are never ever pretty

The only white kid smack dab in the inner city

My playground is a parking lot plus a back alley

At times I would wake up in the dark with no electricity

On top of that we struggling cause we got no money

And going through this inside it's killing me

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On and on

On and on

Your love goes (this is Behind the Musik)

On and on

On and on

(And I'm a take yall Behind the Musik)

I was about 6 when all this was going on

Things began to change everything I knew was up and gone

They separated on the weekends I would see my mom

Still living with my pops in the hood but not for too long

When I was nine they divorced and I was moving on

To the suburbs with mom cause the courts said it's wrong

For me to live with dad in the hood so I'm up and gone

Mom remarried had a baby we living in my grandma's home

We living in a neighborhood that's middle class

But I felt poor cause of some things that I didn't have

Time passed we moved out but things still ain't right

I'm slipping fast at home all I do is yell and fight

My grades start to crash plus I ran away twice

And almost got shot by the cops one single night

I started high school and I just party all the time

But little did I know what was gonna happen to my life

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At 15 I had a talk with my cousin got me thinking

Was there more to life than girls partying and drinking

I picked up his Bible and started reading Revelation

For some reason I was crying when I reached the ending

Now God was working on me and this was the beginning

The first time in long while when I started praying

I had to move again and say goodbye to everyone

My dad and my friends once again was all up and gone

Brand new school by myself sitting all alone

Feeling like a foot every single day I'm coming home

But I would listen every night in my bedroom

To gospel radio preach about Christ and just then soon

I gave my life to him everything became new

I was born again I've never been the same dude

Ya took my sin and my guilt and let them blame you

And on and on through the years you always came through

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It was November and the year was 1995

I still remember the very first date with my wife

And I was on my own doing shows part time

Twenty years old just trying to make something of my life

I moved away from home when I was only eighteen

Broke as a joke making music trying to chase the dream

And everybody seems to think I'm crazy except for me

But God was there every time to supply my needs

I went on staff at a church in the inner city

Writing rhymes in my spare time for my CD

I mailed a demo to a label called Gotee

And out of nowhere Todd Collins up and called me

He said he heard my junk and plus he wanted to sign me

My heart jumped and plus I wanted to cry and scream

But all I did was hung up the phone quietly

And thanked God how he always provided for me

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