Killer Mike - Willie Burke Sherwood Lyrics
[Intro:]
No matter how good a woman is, she still can't really teach him to be no man or daddy
[Verse 1:]
Used to walk around with a head full of naps
Doing what he can, just trying to adapt
Jumped to the block off of grandma's lap
Jumped to the block, so did every emcee
But gotta tell the truth, yeah, the block wasn't me
Lookin' for adventure, but the block was not
The block was real, Woo got killed
Half a year later, Big Spank got killed
And I got robbed, and Ronnie got shot
And I bought my first tape by 2Pac
And I got hard, cause I was smart
Had to assert yourself to survive
So I convinced myself it was better for me
To be Jack in the *Lord of the Flies*
It's a book I read, books I read
Cause I'm addicted to literature
As a young boy rollin' 'round with the clique
Cause of that I was insecure
I was insecure cause I realized
Ain't no room for the civilized
When the wild men rumble in the jungle
And that's why Simon and Piggy died
Ralph survives, but he lives changed
Nothin's the same, shit'll drive a man out his brain
Drive a young man insane
My cousin Jimmy had a breakdown he ain't never been the same
And he never will be again
If I could fix his brain
Take back the crack in his mind
Give it all back, you can have the racks and fame
I'd give it all back in exchange
[Hook:]
This is for the dads and the grandads
And the little homies that ain't never had dads
This is for the uncles and the OGs
And the lil homies, and the YGs
This is for the men I look up to
And all the struggles that the men had to go through
For every man that's ever had to man up
If that's you, let me see you put your hands up
[Verse 2:]
I lost my youth, chasin' my youth
Made me a youth in the back of a coupe
Teenage love, like Slick Rick said
I hit her with my Dougie and I had a gold tooth
Fur Kangol, Filas too
She was light-skinned red gold tooth
But of course it didn't last cause I had to go to college
And she was still in high school
Damn, I'm a dad, this is bad
This ain't good, my baby's in the hood
And I'm walkin' 'round the black ivy league campus
Like I wish you house niggas would
So I go get a job, UPS
Where they treat you like BS and
You all know how the story goes
Drop out of college and sell 'ses
I figured I'd invest in studio time
Drop rhymes, have success
But, mostly I got fronted on, stunted on
Nigga dealt with some stress
I'll take that two, take that three
Cause my momma got to see me on TV
And my grandmomma got to get her Grammy
And my grandaddy got to see his boy eat
See his boy grow, I wish I never had that show
I wish you never had to go
Wish you could meet my wife, wish you could see my life
But you had to see the light
Wish I had you one more day
Wish I had tomorrow that's your birthday
We can sip gin, straight get fade
We can ride old schools through the trey
[Hook]
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Killer Mike Willie Burke Sherwood Comments
1:09 the part came for
No matter how good a woman is, she still can't really teach him to be no man or daddy.
The Goat!
Jay-Z got some new shades
One of my favorites from Killer Mike
I fell on my brain. Fell on my knees . got a disease. Mann i fucked up
64k views? 63 subs? I'm dropping a sub cause the jewels would say support your arts. I watched this video 3 times, you earned my sub.
well if you think this way, please check "deca" and "epidemic" big talents
Hoooooly shit. What. The. Fuck.
El-P is the BADDEST producer I ever heard. Oh my God this shit is sick.
This is utopia, the best album of that year!!!! Got damn
Airy Angels El-P is the best producer ever. this speaks to my soul. I get goosebumps everytime I hear his beats. Mix that with Killer Mike's lyricism and it's freaking deadly. Heard Run the Jewels?
Of course! It was fucking awesome!
This mother funker is on it like he should
This song right here hell this whole album changed my life this song in particular means so much.and r.a.p music that is my religion man music shit thanks killer mike and el-p man cannibal ox deff juxs shit keep it up
My sentiments exactly!!!!
Killer Mike is so good, beautiful deep lyrics, great flow and the beats are fly. This album is a masterpiece.
Trill shit right here. So many troof bombs. One of the realest tracks mike ever produced.
+cloudparter El-P produced it
@Tyler H. I know that.
+Tyler H. he wasn't using produced as in creating the instrumental he meant produced as in created (lyrics wise). I'm only pointing this out in case somebody else come across this comment chain
I know I'm a year late, but what do these words mean? 'Realest' I get, but what's a Troof Bomb?
Happy born day Jimmy
Amazing ._.
love dat name lol.
"i wear my pants low..."
the Lord of the Flies reference was brilliant.
what is the sample from?
Sample? No samples.
This almost left me with tears, just hit the right spot.
You don't.
A central tenet in Laissez-faire economic theory is that without regulation there will always be a growing gap between the lower and upper class. As wealth is created, the rich and powerful have the resources to invest in it.
This is exactly what's happening now.
Yes but wasting your life and ignoring possibilities to invest in yourself and become educated and find your self worth is a terrible choice and anyone that chooses so will regret many a thing in life.
thats one of my favorite lines from this album
this song is the shizzah!!
people don't want to face the truth!
KILLER MIKE!!!!!!!!!
So.......this amazing artist is relatively unknown while superficial crap spewed from labels like maybach music ( music my ass ) and cashmoney records are getting all the hype???!!
Mike would slap the shit out of you if he read that
this is such a personal song for killer mike but it's so relatable
"So I convinced myself it was better for me to be Jack in the Lord of the Flies" Love this analogy. This song is so fucking amazing. Best hip hop album of 2012
HailSisyphus and thats why simon and piggy died...classic
fuuuuuuuck this one hit me
the music labels dictate what the mass listen to for more profit, rappers like killer mike just dont get the popularity it isnt fair
real music maneee
I feel the same way about el-p
We all the know the reason already; this question has been has been answered decades ago. Not saying that the artists you listed are all sellouts, but lowest common denominator material sells well for obvious reasons.
those 'artists' are only talked about by people like you bringing them up nonstop, i wish people wouldnt even complain on them, just gives them more attention. just act like they arent there dont try to make clever comments.smh yt
you probably already know a couple of songs more featuring him. 'The Whole World' or 'Bust' from OutKast, for example.
@2:04 is it just me or is this particular sentence of the chorus from a different rapper? it kinda sounds like Jay-Z to me.
Ronald Reagan disliked this
This, tbh
El-P could produce a block of shit into science.
came here by mistake, best fucking mistake I ever made.
This is excellent.
Only my second song by this dude and I already know I'm in a good place
Matter fact A-town stand tha fuck UP!!!!!!!!!!
this whole album is deep Grind Time Rap Game/Grand Hustle stand tha fuck up this is a classic
shit is too real