Growing Young

Lyrics

Yo Be a man, John, be a man Used to get them Marlboros for dad It made me feel grown Didn't know the problems he had But he was real gone When he had the bottle in hand He was just dead wrong Promised that I would never grow up and be him But I never grew up at all And now I'm womanizing and cheatin', drinkin' heavily in the P.M Havin' myself a monsters ball, just like my pa My girl lookin' the same way my mom did Smeared makeup and tears under her eyelids Generations of havin' a down ass chick But we always end up fuckin' up that shit Pointin' fingers at all of my male figures The only thing gettin' bigger is makin' 'bout six figures And everybody just shut up when I put it on my tab Ain't it sad when a Visa's the only credit you have? Huh But that's just John, and that's how he is That's the only way people come into my defense But that's just wrong, but that's how it is And it be helpin' me get away with a lot of shit Alotta shit, a lotta shit, I wish somebody really gave me a whole lot of shit But they on the dick, yeah they on my dick, now my ego is getting bigger than Moby Dick They see the videos, they see the hero They take a mess and paint a mural Edit out the a-hole put in the b-roll Render the clips, and you got pure gold Shoutout to B tho, that's mi amigo, kept me in check when I was actin' like a devo When I was Steve O, he made me Steve Jobs, I'm a CEO, now look at me ma Now look at me ma, I'm on my grown shit When I mean grown, I mean takin' care of my own shit Now look at me pa, this is some grown shit Now what you taught me, forget it, I flipped the whole script Now look at me girl, I'm on my grown shit What I'm sayin', I mean it my word is golden Everything I'm sayin' you're probably thinkin' no shit I shoulda known this already, but I'm ready now