So What?

Yeah
 This for all my people that grew up being told
 That they would be dead or in the
 Penitentiary by the time they were grown
 And then you wonder why
 They got depression, self-esteem, anxiety issues
 You know
 After so long, you start to believe it
 Check, check
 I recall everything I was told
 Boy, you'll never live to be 18 years old
 Dead or incarcerated, just like those
 People who wander down similar roads
 Leavin' out the house, she said please don't go
 Granny, why you stay tryin' to, save my soul
 If death is my destiny, like you had said to me
 Let me get busy before it gets the best of me
 Don't you know, bullets don't have no brain
 And a lot of younguns don't have no aim
 Am I livin' or dyin', somebody please explain
 Goin' or stayin', because I'm going insane
 I'm strapped up cause he is, sheisty cause she is
 Meanwhile, dude who teach chemistry is
 In his office with a kid, doin' shit I get expelled for
 Which makes me wonder why people go to jail for it
 Even if I did die young, so what
 Nobody expected me to ever grow up
 Grandmama lectured me, you better grow up
 But there wasn't no tellin' me, I was a grown up
 Even if I did die young, so what
 Nobody expected me to ever grow up
 Grandmama lectured me, you better grow up
 But there wasn't no tellin' me, I was a grown up
 I'm a kid peepin' injustice y'all let slide
 But you're so quick to, point out mine
 That's what made me draw that line
 Blinded by my own desire, I'm doin' fine
 No, I'm not, I'm doin' bad, but I'm too afraid to talk
 Y'all got shit goin' on, I don't wanna bother y'all
 Pops cut from a different cloth, never be the man he was
 Thought I was slow, I turned out to be a genius
 And I ain't returned like, eat my peanuts
 Let our bank statements be the difference between us
 If I seem distant, bitch I'm 30 somethin'
 I was suppose to been done been a murder victim
 My grandpa prayed 'till his knees gave way
 If you can't save me, God, please save Jason
 The way I went in, that's the only explanation
 I know some bad dudes enough to know I ain't one
 Even if I did die young, so what
 Nobody expected me to ever grow up
 Grandmama lectured me, you better grow up
 But there wasn't no tellin' me, I was a grown up
 Even if I did die young, so what
 Nobody expected me to ever grow up
 Grandmama lectured me, you better grow up
 But there wasn't no tellin' me, I was a grown up
 I was confused, and you can hear it in my rhetoric
 In retrospect, I never should have made it back
 I wrote my Senator, and never got a letter back
 My friend, Chris, got killed for a Cadillac
 My man, Mike, died for a powder pack
 So understand why I could think that I was next
 Under attack, guns and crack
 Or the motherfuckin' police shoot us in the back
 And ah, they think it only happens to blacks
 And refuse to believe it almost happened to Stak
 Stabbed in the back
 Blood beatin' threw a heart filled with crack
 Soldier up, fought through that
 Injuries, a lot of players don't walk off
 I walked off, cause I ain't the type to walk on
 If you're family, you're suppose to love me when I'm wrong
 Be a man, and represent me when I'm gone
 Stones in the foundation get looked over
 But without them, the whole damn house falls over
 This is for the rocks that exist beneath me
 The block which gave me, a past to be me
 BB's are baby bullets, baby's in trainin'
 My people were bangin', before they called it bangin'
 Just chillin', hangin', words exchange
 One thing lead to another, all I heard was...
 (Gunshot)
 Even if I did die young, so what
 Nobody expected me to ever grow up
 Grandmama lectured me, you better grow up
 But there wasn't no tellin' me, I was a grown up
 Even if I did die young, so what
 Nobody expected me to ever grow up
 Grandmama lectured me, you better grow up
 But there wasn't no tellin' me, I was a grown up