Young mothers   That's right   I feel ya (hey)   I know how it is   (MAMA's JUST A LIL' GIRL)   Don't nobody understand   I feel ya     [Verse 1: Tupac]     She was ..   Born A heavy set girl with pig tails and curls   A heart full of gold   Still it won't change the world   Though she could never understand why   Some underhanded plans, witnessed a man die   Was only 15   Should have been a beauty queen   Still see here crying by the caskets when here parents got killed   Little girl don't cry   'Coz even though they died   You can best believe they watching over thee from the sky   Never asked for this misery   But look at what you gettin'   It's a blessing in disguise   When you find out your pregnant   No money, no home   And even though you all alone   You'se got to do this on your own   So baby go on   I wish you luck   And if you need me, call   Just come to me and let me feed you all   I can understand   The way it feels when you fighting the world   Facing all this drama   When mama's just A little girl     [Chorus]     Mama   Don't know why   Mama's just a little girl   Given that she's a ??  Time ain't on her side   Mama's just a little girl   (Mama's just a little girl)   She gotta hold her head up high     [Verse 2: Tupac]     At 16 what a beautiful thing   The very essence of a jet black ebony queen   And who could tell she would get pregnant at an early age   She didn't listen, had sex   Watch her belly raise (hey)   Got violated by someone she dated   If this is fate I hate to see the seed she created   So we wait, though it takes time to build the body and the mind   She reclines 9 months   Then finally its time   What do we find?   A little grown boy a mind with a tortured soul   Addicted to a life of crime at no time of the growing stage   He learned his values on the streets at an early age   Watch for police   Don't come home (why)   'Coz mammas acting crazy   At the hospital   'Bout to have another baby   Like the rose from concrete   Grown within   Blessed with twins   How the hell can mamma raise 3 men   So we began a closest family   Such insanity   A happy home   For one act inhumanity   Plus mammas said the seed was corrupted   Used the rubber belly   Begging us to breathe if she love us   Now mamma sits quiet   Sipping peppermint schnapps   Turned the house into a spot and made her watch for cops (hey)   How could mamma bring a thug like me into this world?   She ain't the cause of all the drama   Cause mommas just a little girl     [Chorus]     Mama   Don't know why   Mama's just a little girl   Liven if she is or not   Time ain't on her side   Cause ama's just a little girl   (Mama's just a little girl)   She gotta hold her head up high   (How could she raise us)     [Verse 3: Tupac]     Now   Would she remain in the same spot?   The gunshots rang, they came from the cane spot   Now look here   I see her clutching her son   In her arms she hurt   Her heart bleeding as she watched her seed die in the dirt   Fulfill prophecy   But who could stop the grief?   I walk around trying to hold the world up on top me   Probably be an innocent man   But still I'm the victim of a curse   What could be worse?   Nothing but pain   Since my birth, taught me functions at the pen   Cause everybody's in paying back society   I'm guilty of a life of sin   I watched the drama occur   My eyes blurred 'fore I jet it   I wonder why we all have to die for we get it   Though we shed tears   So many peers I done buried   Worried and scared   Knowing I'ma see the cemetery   Must be prepared in this cold world   No-one cares   No it ain't fair   But we all there   And do our share   In this land of underhanded schemes and plans   Vivid dreams of a nigga having g's in hand   Mamma told me not to be a punk   Fuck what you talking about coward   What you niggas want?     (hey)   They ain't a thing I wouldn't do for my mamma in this world   Cause you know I ain't mad at cha   You' just a little girl   See mammas just a little girl   (hey hey)     [Chorus]     [Repeat until fade]    Mama   don't know why   Mama's just a little girl   Given that she is or not   time ain't on here side   mama's just a little girl   (mama's just a little girl)   she gotta hold her head up high     [Tupac Talking]     They ask us why we mutilate each other like we do   And wonder why we hold such little worth for human life   Facing all this drama   But to ask us why we to turn from bad to worse   Is to ignore from which we came   You see you wouldn't ask why the rose that grew from the concrete had damaged petals   On the contrary   We would all celebrate its tenacity   We would all love its will to reach the sun   Well   We are the roses (echo)   This is the concrete (echo)   And these are my damaged petals (echo)   Don't ask me why (echo)   Thank god nigga (echo)   Ask me how (echo)   (hahaha)     You see, mama's just a little girl