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(Record scratch) Yo, check it, lemme spin a yarn...

 

(Verse 1)

Born in the concrete jungle,

'90s haze for days

Momma single, slinging weight, navigating crazy ways I was a youngin',

Thirteen, heart pumpin' naive trust

She was my queen, everything, keepin' my future adjust'

Daddy picture hangin' crooked, dusty in the hall

She'd say, "He dipped, son, left us, didn't give a damn at all."

Said he was a deadbeat, a ghost, a phantom in the breeze

Just a rhyme on my tongue, haunted by these memories.

Used to stare at that faded photo, try to find a trace

Of the man I never knew, lost in time and space.

Momma worked late, hustlin' hard, I thought she did it all

To keep a roof above my head, catch me when I fall.

Hungry nights, ramen noodles, stretched as far as they could go

She’d say, "This is life, kid, ain’t no easy flow."

Kept me from the streets, said they'd chew me up and spit me out

Told me get my grades up, rise above, without a doubt.

Believed every word she spoke, swallowed all the lies whole

Thought she was protectin' me, savin' my fuckin' soul.

Looked up to her strength, saw her grit, admired her shine

Thought she was a warrior, a goddamn paradigm.

But the truth, son, the truth’s a venomous, serpent, slow

To unwind its wicked coils, put on a deadly show.

Didn't know the viper hidin', beneath the motherly guise

Ready to strike with a venomous, soul-crushing surprise.

Little did I know this whole damn time, the story she sold

Was a fabrication, a web of deceit, a tale untold.

(Verse 2)

One day, cleaning out the attic, dust bunnies in the light

Found a box of letters, hidden deep, concealed from sight.

Yellowed paper, faded ink, a name I recognized

My father's name, scrawled across, a truth I'd been denied.

Letters filled with love and longing, payments, child support slips

Evidence of a father's heart, from his very fingertips.

He wrote about visitations, denied by "the jealous queen,"

Said she poisoned his reflection, made him a hated scene.

He begged to see me, pleaded hard, sent gifts that never came

Stuck in the purgatory of a mother's twisted game.

My blood turned cold, the world tilted, the air grew thick and stale

The woman I worshipped, standing exposed, stripped bare, for sale.

A liar, a manipulator, a mastermind of pain

Kept me from my father, bathed her ego in the rain.

All those years of hardship, the struggle and the strife

Fueled by a vendetta, a dagger twisted in my life.

The guilt washed over me, a tidal wave of shame

For believing her deception, fueling her wicked game.

Now I see the cracks, the inconsistencies, the veiled deceit

The manipulative whispers, the poison oh so sweet.

This ain't no fairy tale, kid, no happy ever after

Just a broken boy standing in the face of disaster.

Thirteen years of lies, a father stolen, a truth concealed

Now I gotta pick up the pieces, figure out how to heal.

And confront the she-devil, the monster in disguise

My mother, my betrayer, staring into her lying eyes.

This is more than just a story, kid, this is a fucking curse

The weight of her deception, only makes it gonna get more worse.

Word.