They sang in a style that resonated with me
Gangsters paradise when you\'ve got nothing but your feet
My mum checking in my room to see the window I\'d flee
Pinching stereos to get some quick cash for a stash
Sneaking back in knowing this ain\'t what I thought
The next outbreak at home brings me out the door
Before I can blink I\'m living the music in my core
Nothing to lose so their rhythm just filled my paws
No suffering or pain just another player in the game
A year or two go by few friends houses in between
End up at the grandparents safe and unclean
Still got that chip on my shoulder wanting more
This time was the last police catch my arse
To young for integration without a adult present
Left in a cell knowing I\'d not seen my mum for years
The tears start to full but pulled back into your soul
Walk it to the room still strutting as if nothing is new
I\'m built for this what can you prove, I found those tools
In the end just a caution of what they believe an attempt to still
Get a taxi back not a word said but right at the end
Let\'s not tell nan and grandad about this get some rest
I wake up to a phone ring down stairs, hearing the words \"he did what\"
Before I could gather my thoughts I was told to pack my stuff
My poor grandfather (r,i,p)unable to even look up
This was the first time inner shame was really felt
Yet my brain overrides and thinks but she wasn\'t going to tell
Find out it was my stepdad could wait to say he was right about me
Although the only reason I left home is because of him
I\'ve still not beaten a woman or mentally abused her kids
Hip hop was right this whole worlds gone to s#*!
Only thing for sure is its you against many of them all
Everybody is playing a game of truth or false
But in music is where everyone let\'s it all fall
A perfect picture of their prospective mixed with my own
Picked on from the start of school and now all of this
Nothing but a fight of getting through life is a trip
So never back down or let anyone else control it
I\'m not proud of some of things I\'ve done to get here
But my truth has never been something I fear
From the moment I felt a authentic souls rhythm in my ear
With my darkness they gave comfort till the light could be seen
To then repay my Gratitude with forgiveness to any walking the same
As the only thing we came here to do is just live, learn and dream
This is was the birth of when music became me