R&B Was Fake Lyrics

Grew up in a place where you had to be hard

Childhood scraps in the back of the yard

Bro said beat his ass or I'm a beat yours

Didn't wanna but I knew it was out of street love

He was only trying to make sure I had heart

Ever since a kid always had a good heart

Never start shit but I hit when it start

Got my licks in with some big kids in the park

Never back down from a kid in a fair fight

But I backed down from an older kid one night

Dad seen that and never let me live it down

Wasn't no dad never known to be around

Kind of pussy for a dad lets a pussy raise a man

Love my mom just spittin' them facts

She did it alone had to wear both hats

In a man's world where being a man means tatts

Fuck R&B we bumpin' Snoop Dogg

Fugees, Luni'z, Biggie, Tupac

Goonie's tooleys rule thee boombox

Cause soothing singing's usually too soft

Fellas in the hood ain't trying to doowop

Unless you sing of groupies you got

In a man's world loving a woman is soft

But earth is a woman so woman is rock

I remember when I thought, R&B was fake as hell

Because the singer wasn't really singing to, his girl

But then I realized the feel it creates is real

It's like life's love spell, queen come right here

And let me take them jeans off, please ma

Let's take it to the bed and get our creep on, week long

You know I got a shoulder you can lean on, be strong

Ain't just here for the cutty but the d long

Miseducated misconceptions spreaded like wildfire

To be a man you called a girl a bitch and got loud and riled

Like single parent families don't make up more than half of our homes

Like most of those ain't headed by our mothers no man in the throne

Neo-patriarchal systems visions are so pussy

Oops I meant so dick, cause pussy is so rich

And penis ain't even able to lead it, rape, beat it, shameful

Conceded can't even please it believe it we need you lady

I'm far from righteous I've committed nights just like this

Wilted by guilty conscious filthy promise filled his momma

Treating my sons queen like nothing I killed my honor

I hope he's better to the mother of his son or daughter

I hope he don't project his insecurities upon her

I hope he breaks the cycle and takes the rifle to this fodder

Yeah when it comes to women I hope he's nothing like his father

He needs my growth so I can be a better role model

I remember when I thought, R&B was fake as hell

Because the singer wasn't really singing to, his girl

But then I realized the feel it creates is real

It's like life's love spell, queen come right here

And let me take them jeans off, please ma

Let's take it to the bed and get our creep on, week long

You know I got a shoulder you can lean on, be strong

Ain't just here for the cutty but the d long

It's tough when all the love you've known has always been dysfunctional

Momma gave us whoopings so step-father wouldn't use a board

Never knew a man who'd treat his lady like a beauty queen

Much less a dad who'd treat his babies like they're human being

Exception being seeing Brady Bunch on grandma's TV screen

Reflection eternally escaped the hood Talib Kweli

Absent fathers tearful mothers angry grandmas broken homes

Molding martyrs here for others thickened skin and swollen bones

Mental shots of cortisone to numb the pain depression swole

Vodka shots, a quarter-o, a blunt to flame suppressed the cold

Youngin but the mental's old, finally sobered up the mind

Six years without a high that wasn't naturally inclined

Stopped committing many crimes and started trying to live my life

Now I'm out here getting mine and see the value in a wife

Young attempts to navigate the road map of relationships

Couple slips a few trips but R&B I'm making it

I remember when I thought, R&B was fake as hell

Because the singer wasn't really singing to, his girl

But then I realized the feel it creates is real

It's like life's love spell, queen come right here

And let me take them jeans off, please ma

Let's take it to the bed and get our creep on, week long

You know I got a shoulder you can lean on, be strong

Ain't just here for the cutty but the d long