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[Intro] Y'all kids, come on, you know how this van is when it get hot like this Yeah, there it is Got this motherfucker running now though Come on, baby Keep running, keep running Don't short out in front of my kids Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, motherfucker Come on, yeah Aw, come on Fuck this van Damn The First Team Collection [Chorus] Brown and white van turned me to a man We had to sleep in the car where we all layin' The seat in the back turned to a bed Me, my siblings, and my mama sleeping foot to head With my daddy in the front seat reclining When we called on family, they declined it Still can't see how we made it through it all But that brown and white van, hell yeah, it made it all [Verse 1] Was just a pup, papa was shit out of luck Had to pack up our stuff, couldn't hustle the rent up Was never the type to dot his I's, cross his T's Now we drive around in the house like an RV A 1983 Ford Econoline The brown and white van my daddy had in 1995 Our address was the van's VIN number Supposed to get from A to B, not live in that motherfucker When my daddy went to work We in American Airlines' parking lot with no shirt You burning gas out if you blow the air conditioner So you better not dare start that engine up That's why I had drive since day one 'Cause I lived on the road and felt every bump Taking shits in plastic bags and throw it in the dump Shit I went through, got this shit goin' up [Chorus] Brown and white van turned me to a man We had to sleep in the car where we all layin' The seat in the back turned to a bed Me, my siblings, and my mama sleeping foot to head With my daddy in the front seat reclining When we called on family, they declined it Still can't see how we made it through it all But that brown and white van, hell yeah, it made it all [Verse 2] I didn't have much of a relationship with stability Before we lost our house, they cut off the utilities First the lights went So we used candles to light the night with Pops borrowed money to get the power back on Turned the water on and now the shower is cold (Man, you fucking can't be serious) Now we back to borrowed money for the gas bill But he ain't pay him back for the last bill The type of shit he would do would pay the minimum due Gambled the mortgage on the horses 'til they gave us the shoe Imagine tryna stay afloat where you can't swim in There's no life jackets and you burnt your bridges We slept in vans, cramped in family friends' and motels As a kid, I hid it from my peers so well It made me work harder, with my money, be smarter That's nothin' I ever wanna experience with my daughter [Chorus] Brown and white van turned me to a man We had to sleep in the car where we all layin' The seat in the back turned to a bed Me, my siblings, and my mama sleeping foot to head With my daddy in the front seat reclining When we called on family, they declined it Still can't see how we made it through it all But that brown and white van, hell yeah, it made it all [Verse 3] We spent the night at my G-ma's crib Only the kids and my daddy, mama can't come in My daddy mama don't like my mama, I don't know why Out the window, saw my mama all alone and I cry Now that I'm grown, I can see why she left, whole lot of stress Tried to stay long enough to see her young leave the nest In retrospect, the effort my parents gave was they best Yeah, life was hard, but we knew they loved us to death [Outro] Shit was crazy, bro, we used to ride around, like, try to figure out where we was gon' sleep that night, right? So we would ride to Venice Beach Watched a dude step on the glass with his feet Split a twenty piece of wings and fries then weep Slid the door upen to listen to the ocean and let that rock us to sleep And sometimes, my dad would ride down Sunset Boulevard at nighttime and make us feel like a star Or even take us to play miniature golf It's crazy because the van was cool, it had like a VHS tape in it My daddy would go to Blockbuster and rent movies and never return them motherfuckers, man Crazy times, but it made us who we are I feel like my siblings all had different experiences with it and they feel different, but, you know, it molded us into better people RIP my pops, you know, when he left, it kind of got shaken with us 'cause he was the glue But we kept that shit together, pops Mama, we still here, I love you, mama