This Is Dedicated

Lyrics

[Verse 1] So happy, you filled me with joy Thinking about what you did for your baby Catching the bus in the snow on your way to work Sometimes I'd walk with you to make sure you didn't get hurt Old dues flirt, but none really turned your head If they was broke and walking, conversation turned dead Breaking your back for them white folks every day Making sure you and I had somewhere to stay I remember when my great-grandmama was living Senile and had to get a lot of your attention You was young then but you still made time She was going blind and losing her mind It wasn't nobody there but you to help her up When she fell out of bed always reaching for stuff You're an angel, put on earth to watch over me Thanks for watching over me, and this is dedicated… [Chorus] I got much love for sure Mama, I wish I could do more You gave me life from yours And I appreciate my mama So I dedicate [Verse 2] I always into something—weed and women 14-years-old, hustlin' and street living Giving all my time trying to be a key figure In the cut getting blowed with them yam selling niggas You always knew I had my hands in some stickiness But I respected you by keeping you out of my business But all things done in the dark come to the light And God would never ever let me forget the night Tears rolled down your cheek and your voice trembled Telling me the police just left here looking for you I know you don't want me to be a thug Always asking about my friends, hearing we sell drugs Rapping wasn't paying a cent then but you understood Putting up with all my mess and doing what you could Not to have a nervous breakdown, worrying But for all your worry, this is dedicated [Chorus] I got much love for sure Mama, I wish I could do more You gave me life from yours And I appreciate my mama So I dedicate [Verse 3] Way back before you, and long before me Long before CD's and big-screen TV's Before Run-DMC, before the Bee Gees Before Star Wars, and movies turned 3-D Before hip-hop turned into cosmic slop Way before cocaine boiled into a crack rock Long before the first victim of a gun got shot Before any superstar ever reached the top Everybody has had or now has Someone that they can call "momma" I say, everybody has had or now has Someone that they can call "momma" Can you dig that? [Chorus] I got much love for sure Mama, I wish I could do more You gave me life from yours And I appreciate my mama So I dedicate Much love for sure Mama, I wish I could do more You gave me life from yours And I appreciate my mama So I dedicate [Outro] This is dedicated, this is dedicated to you Yeah yeah, yeah, this is dedicated to you Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah Can you dig that?