Mama I Just Killed a Man

[Intro]

Mic Geronimo nigga! What the fuck's the deal son?

What's goin on, what's goin on?

Ain't shit nigga

Alright

On the grind, nigga tryin to get this paper

Son whassup with you nigga?

Yeah true, ain't nuttin, ain't nuttin y'know

Ain't seen you in a minute dunn

Yeah, just chillin, y'know? Doin my own shit

No doubt, I see you got somethin in the car

Yeah yeah, a little somethin, little somethin

Aight

Bout to light up the dutch and burn it down y'know

No doubt my nigga

Just doin my thing

Do your thing nigga, I'll see you dawg

Aight man

One

Aight?

[gun being cocked]

Yo what's poppin nigga?

[Verse One]

Yesh, yeah, yeah

M.I.C., M.I.C.

Now, now, now, now

Momma, I just killed a man, shot him to live

I know you can't believe the sentence out the mouth of your kid

I know you shocked and my explanation, it don't explain it

And I can see you cryin and riffin at my arraignment

I tried to handle it cool, you taught me the rules

Told me look up on the floor and find me somethin to use

But things you wouldn't understand momma led to his murder

I know you never ever pictured me with drugs and a burner

Shoulda heard him, he was tellin me 'Nigga you gon' die'

I could see the devil dancin in the white of his eyes

He despised me, shot his heater, then I shot mine

I'd never lie to you momma, I committed a crime

And I'm alive though seein he tried to stop my survival

Forgive me the things around me done turned me to livin trifle

My rivals would love to say they left me dead in the dirt

But I could never have you goin through the pain and the hurt

I just killed a man

[Chorus]

Seein it was him or me

The look on his face, I tried to erase, and now

And momma I just killed a man

And I took him out of life to death

With no remorse, I must confess, and now

And momma I just killed a man

Then I left him in a pool of blood

With murder one, I'm still your son, and now

And momma I just killed a man

See I'd rather be tried by 12 than held by 6

I choose to live, and now, now

[Verse Two]

Momma while I'm speakin to you over the phone

I got involved with certain things I know you wouldn't condone

I only did it cause I knew you was destined for somethin better

Than workin them two jobs and fightin to stay together

I never intended to kill him, seen it as God's will

Only thing gettin me through this is knowin Allah's real

I caught him and stepped back, my barrel was still smokin

I said to myself he's goin, watched him started convulsin

My bullets opened his chest up, now I'm just standin there like

Things are messed up, and what could I do?

Before he died he said the wolves I'm with are comin for you

It's ignorance that had him thinkin there was nothin to lose

Now feel me momma, I ain't wanna, I didn't I'd be a goner

They want me to turn informer and tell 'em about the corner

I'm never breathin a word, hopin you understand

Many hats I got to wear, it's bein this man

I just killed a man

[Chorus]

[Verse Three]

I know you thinkin that it's messed up, seein your only child

Inside the system facin 25-to-life and it's wild

Nothin I can do about it, though I wish that I could

You never wanted me to end up like the rest in the hood

Now feel me momma I done killed but I did it with no intention

A minute free of your guidance it got me with no direction

I question myself, sayin if I wouldn't have shot him

Could I have lived and could we both have just worked through the problem?

But seein things are what they are I just, hold my head

Stick my chest out and walk to where my soul's been led

And what you said, it's just the bed that I made, so I sleep in it

Forgive me I'm up to my knees in it

And momma I just killed a man

[Chorus]