Ya know, right now, whatever you smoke   Right now 'cuz they ask me, and they ask me   And they ask me, they ask me      Now they ask me, How you know so much at 17   What you mean? You never seen a disfuctional teen   Mama cared for me, papa wasn't there for me   Older brother sold dope and murph blurr for me   Times got hard I had to get harder   Let me take that back I had to get smarter   16, I had me a daughter   Hold up J-Kwon let's get shit in order      Baby mama that's a whole another story   Both too young, both too horney   Cell phone rung, but I didn't anwser   Check my voice mail, my grandma got cancer   Now she layin' up in a old folks home   When it seamed like yesterday she was home   A month later stroke poped up her brain cells gone   The last thing she said was let no one steer you wrong, I'm grown      They ask me, do I believe in God   So I ask them, did I defeat the odds?   They ask me, do I believe in God   So I ask them, did I defeat the odds?      Shit fucked up but I can't turn away now   Sold dope around the town, self esteem way down   Jessie made me tougher, he boxed me up   My mama put me in the system, she locked me up   Now this around the time that we lived on Hanley   When I think about it I don't know none of my family   Except, for the immediate ones   Tha's why I run to the streets and the jennings hand guns      He don't talk much so everybody wanna fight him   Every school I went to nobody liked him   Never could it be right, I'd try sometimes   So I chilled by myself and cry sometimes   And all I ask from Gods to buy sometime   Would I bring his name in it If I was lyin'   Now look at what the fuck I did, done   Terry Jones last son, this is a blessing, I'm grown      They ask me, do I believe in God   So I ask them, did I defeat the odds?   They ask me, do I believe in God   So I ask them, did I defeat the odds?      Now they ask me, how you know so much at 17   What you mean   You never seen a disfuctional teen   Times got harder I had to get harder   Let me take that back I had to get smarter      They ask me, do I believe in God   So I ask them, did I defeat the odds?   They ask me, do I believe in God   So I ask them, did I defeat the odds?