What up G'yea   Father to son, know what it is?      What up son, how you feelin'? It won't be long before   I return in God's willin', but in the mean time   Do everything grandma tell ya follow her words   And I promise you they won't fail ya, just be strong   And take care of your little sister, tell her that I love her   And that daddy miss her you know I love you two      Just keep doin' good in school and remember bein' bad, boy   Don't make you cool might make a fool of yourself   Or you'll end up like me incarcerated and I know you   Will be S and B, we should be free, my son, you know   I wouldn't lie to you so make the garden, and these hoes   Don't apply to you, ya heard me boy? You gotta dedicate   Your life to God 'cause he's the one who blessed you   From the start and made you smart, I know you smart      That's why I write you this type of letter but I shouldn't worry   Too much because we raised you better, me and my momma   And I know that you gonna represent and thank you for the letters   And the pensions that you sent you made me happy   I was blessed with you when I was young and we gonna grow up   Together, father and son, father and son      Nobody separate us that's a fact, I'm never goin' back to the projects   The black man just stay largest down in the hoosy-a-way   It hurt my heart to think that you could end up that way, so I pray   It hurts me father, seein' your mind can falter   We must be faltered, 'cause we pray, here it goes      When I get out it's gonna be us, see? Me, you, and G'jay and Jess   Outta the family at DZ or wherever else y'all wanna go   I promise y'all, they won't separate us no more, not in this life time   Ya know y'all mean the world to me, and nothin' more precious   Than my boys and girl to me, not even me, so when your wrong   I'm correctin' you 'cause if I don't, it's as good as neglectin' you   Now this the truth, see I only want what's best for you   And if there's somethin' you can't do, I won't think less of you      Just try your best, I can see you got my ways in you   But I don't want you goin' through the same things I went through   See I was wild, even when I didn't have to be   That's why you always see them people comin' after me   But not no more, you see this change here had to come   I couldn't pasursize livin' down to my son, not to my son      Nobody separate us that's a fact, I'm never goin' back to the projects   The black man just stay largest down in the hoosy-a-way   It hurt my heart to think that you could end up that way, so I pray   Nobody separate us that's a fact, I'm never goin' back to the projects   The black man just stay largest down in the hoosy-a-way   It hurt my heart to think that you could end up that way, so I pray      It hurts me father, seein' your mind can falter   We must be faltered 'cause we pray, here it goes   It hurts me father, seein' your mind can falter   We must be faltered, 'cause we pray, here it goes      Boy, I just love spendin' time with you   When you get older, I might even bust rhymes with you   If you want to you know, you always make me proud of you   No matter what the situation I'll go out with you   But I don't want you, to think that goin' to jail's cool   Just 'cause I didn't, boy you still gotta finish school   Don't be no fool see I went back and got mine   So if there's somethin' I wanna do, they can't stop mine   You know what I'm talkin' about, the people who make up excuses   Besides entertainment, labor sports, they think we're useless      But see the truth is in the good and when they puttin', whip on ya ass   When you get that money fast, you spend that money fast, boy   Everything you think you wanna do, I finally done it   See when I'm gone, everything I own, you gonna want it   And if you decide to settle down with a woman, make sure ya know her   It's cool to love someone but don't be a sucker for her      Nobody separate us that's a fact, I'm never goin' back to the projects   The black man just stay largest down in the hoosy-a-way   It hurt my heart to think that you could end up that way, so I pray   Nobody separate us that's a fact, I'm never goin' back to the projects   The black man just stay largest down in the hoosy-a-way   It hurt my heart to think that you could end up that way, so I pray      It hurts me father, seein' your mind can falter   We must be faltered 'cause we pray, here it goes   It hurts me father, seein' your mind can falter   We must be faltered 'cause we pray, here it goes