Championships

[00:00.36]Meek Mill - Championships
[00:10.82]Yeah uh
[00:12.33]All the young'uns in my hood popping percs now
[00:15.13]Getting' high to get by
[00:16.35]It's getting' worse now
[00:17.95]You gotta tell 'em put them guns and them percs down
[00:20.23]Them new jails got ten yards in 'em
[00:22.35]And that's your first down uh
[00:24.16]And I ain't come here to preach
[00:26.04]I just had to say something'
[00:27.35]Cause I'm the one with the reach
[00:28.72]Youngin' gotta quarter ounce
[00:29.88]He tryna turn into meech
[00:31.39]Ain't had no daddy
[00:32.25]He's had to learn from the streets
[00:33.67]I used to be a honor roll student damn
[00:36.00]Then I turned to a beast
[00:37.16]The first time
[00:37.87]I seen a nigga get some blood on his sneaks
[00:40.04]He had on air max 93s
[00:41.50]But was slumped in the street
[00:42.98]His mama cryin'
[00:43.74]That did something' to me oh lord
[00:45.76]The shit I'm doing' for my hood
[00:47.28]I won't get an award
[00:48.84]I used to sell reggie
[00:49.75]Damn how' I get to the forbes
[00:51.46]I take a shot if I miss
[00:52.98]I'm getting' them boards
[00:54.24]Ain't quittin' no more
[00:55.69]Like give me some more
[00:57.20]We wearing old navy
[00:58.57]It felt like christian dior
[01:00.03]Was dead broke but rich in soul
[01:01.70]Was we really that poor
[01:02.91]Was we really that dumb '
[01:04.37]Cause we carry a gun
[01:05.69]And every nigga in my neighborhood carryin' one
[01:08.51]'Cause we had nightmares of
[01:09.87]Our mamas gotta bury her son
[01:11.39]I'm speakin' to you as a prophet
[01:13.16]As rare as they come uh
[01:15.81]Gunshots sound like music hangin' out the buick
[01:17.78]Why you wanna be a shooter
[01:19.20]Mama told me not to do it but I did it
[01:21.57]Now I'm locked up in a prison
[01:23.03]Calling' mama like I shouldn't have did it
[01:24.75]Watch my dream shatter in an instant
[01:26.67]I'm on a visit posin' for the picture
[01:29.02]Like I'm going for my prom or something'
[01:31.19]Like I ain't facing time or something'
[01:32.56]Ridin' for these niggas
[01:33.36]Like that shit ain't hurt my mom or something'
[01:35.19]Only one gon' get me commissary
[01:36.51]Or even buy me something'
[01:37.99]When it all fall down
[01:39.11]I can't call y'all now
[01:40.42]Even if I hit your phone
[01:41.83]That won't get me home
[01:43.30]Seen so many different times
[01:44.71]These niggas did me wrong
[01:46.17]Shit that's the reason that I did this song
[01:49.91]Shit we was kids used to play on the step
[01:51.88]A couple years later
[01:52.90]We flirtin' with the angel of death
[01:54.72]I was eleven years old
[01:56.19]I got my hands on the tec
[01:57.66]When I first touched
[01:58.37]It that shit gave me a rush
[01:59.83]My homie's dying
[02:00.69]I'm like maybe we next
[02:02.06]That just made me a threat
[02:03.37]Knowin' the niggas smoke
[02:04.38]My daddy it just made me upset
[02:06.10]Made me a man shit I was five
[02:07.72]When god gave me my test
[02:09.03]Go to court with a court appointed
[02:10.69]And he won't say he objects
[02:12.29]Now it's you against the state
[02:13.55]And you ain't got no cake
[02:15.13]Jail overpopulated they ain't got no space
[02:17.65]I know a young'un
[02:18.61]That got murked ain't get to drive no wraith
[02:20.58]But he in the hearse on the way to church
[02:22.35]I know his mom gon' faint
[02:23.51]When she smell like embalment fluid
[02:25.14]Cologne all on her baby
[02:26.98]Pastor said he sendin' you home
[02:28.30]She goin' crazy
[02:29.66]When they drop that casket all in the ground
[02:31.43]Who gon' save me
[02:32.85]How could you blame me
[02:33.71]When I'm tryna stay alive and just survive
[02:36.02]And beat them odds when niggas die by twenty-five
[02:37.89]When I stop fearin' for my life
[02:39.51]When I decide to change my mind and stop totin'
[02:42.14]Tryna smoke the pain away they lock us up for smoking
[02:44.78]Put 'em on probation lock 'em up if you ain't perfect
[02:47.60]Victim to the system like a rain drop in the ocean
[02:50.43]They closin' all the schools
[02:51.54]And all the prisons getting' open
[02:53.87]Yeah
[02:54.98]See coming' from where I come from
[02:56.60]We had to beat the streets
[02:58.51]Beat the system beat racism beat poverty
[03:02.07]And now we made it through all
[03:03.18]That we at the championship