Mama Knows (feat. Nelly Furtado)

Mama told me stay away from them niggas

Mama told me she had a k for them niggas

Mama told me she go today for them niggas

But my grandmother told me that she would pray for them niggas

They just young, black and ignorant

Lusting over models and them benjamin's

Got the game twisted like what? licorice

When i was rocking lottos, moving packs up on mcdonalds

She was looking for me, pulled up in that old el dorado

While i was running around with chicks, chasing new black wheels

Why would i do that still? that's what got 2pac killed

But i use that still 'cause i won't do that deal

Screw the muzzle and potatoes at that new mac mill

What did i learn? nothing, my papa smoking shroom, bluffing

Beating on my mom's like her head was a percussion

Tat, tat, my .45 knocking on your window

She said there would be days like this

Pharrell, drop the instrumental

Yessir

I know i must go and i don't know my way

Still somehow i know i'll end up where we all came from

(from my mama's womb)

I know i must go and i don't know my way

Still somehow i know i'll end up where we all came from

(from my mama's womb)

I know

Crack a swisher, crack a 5th up

Hennessy pouring like niagara falls

Used to watch magic, he showed me how to ball

Mom's working late night to get our plate right

Had some older brothers, all we did was smoke and play-fight

Wish i could go back to them days 'cause streets don't play right

Some niggas hard, other niggas was the kid n play type

But that ain't stop me from pretending i was apollo from rocky

Working on my dip-game and nobody wanna box me

Pick and choose, stick and move

So many dudes ended up in sleeping bags on late-night news

But not my mama's son

Going around the hood for serving customers

She yapping in my ear but it's louder than the muffler

But i didn't listen to her, wish i would've trusted her

Wish i had a shovel, be digging both of my brothers up

Like, "here hug 'em ma, one last time"

Put a chain on both of them niggas, they get one last shine

I know i must go and i don't know my way

Still somehow i know i'll end up where we all came from

(from my mama's womb)

I know i must go and i don't know my way

Still somehow i know i'll end up where we all came from

(from my mama's womb)

I know

Put your glock down, recognize a king 'cause it's my town

Word to my mother, you can throw up your rock now

Got off the beef shit 'cause i ain't trying to see my mama in all black

Right there, crying over hard facts

Now she gotta turn in all her cars and get her house back

Never, she carried me for 9 months so she can have whatever

Clever, she taught me how to shoot berettas

Told me that i'd be a king so rip to coretta

If you don't understand that then refer to my letter

While i sprinkle niggas with platinum from my last album

Got the check, so i signed on the x like malcolm

Riding through the hood, you hating niggas like how come?

That nigga game got it, heard he selling talcum

Either way, playboy, check it, this is the outcome

You might not like it but my mama psychic

Why you niggas twisted like the top of a sidekick?

I know i must go and i don't know my way

Still somehow i know i'll end up where we all came from

(from my mama's womb)

I know i must go and i don't know my way

Still somehow i know i'll end up where we all came from

(from my mama's womb)

I know