Ab-Soul - Be a Man lyrics

Boom yeah
Lifestyles of the Broke and Almost Famous

"Herbert Anthony you need to
Get you life together"
That's my momma bothered by
How I'm living life like whatever
They say im pressed for time
But I don't press the issue
I just stay on my grind
Chain smoking marijuan help me free my mind
What a coincidence
Like feeling guilt stricken by your innocence
In a sense im livin in my second childhood
Don't pay a lick of rent, where I eat, sleep
And shit and when you twenty-two that
Don't sound good
Maybe if I went to school it'll be cool
I've have something to fall back on
If this rap don't crack
Perhaps i'd have a better story


Had I sold crack lets go back
To Carson high fluctuating my goals
Writing rhymes through the lecture knew
I should've took notes, yo
Sometimes I think im running in place
Chasing hopes
So is my name as Ab-Soul or is it average joe

All this commotion goes in one ear
Out the other
I'm still gone make it, one way or the other

(Quit acting like a kid herb, gone be a man
It's a man's world
How you suppose to feed your fam
You need to act more like an adult
Pull up your pants i know you do music but
What's your plan B man)

If I knew when I was younger
Would I grew to know
I coulda tackle things more different
Coulda been more defensive
Coulda been more responsible
Coulda been more persistent
But I didn't and I ain't repenting
My parents wake up in the morning
To a cup of coffee
Then go off to work it kills'em
When im still in bed snoring
Only if they knew
Their young boy was in the stu
'til like 5 AM cookin up
Classics to make them
Proud as house niggas that could stay in
That was rather brash
But you can replace these
Scraps with straight cash
I told jay I'mma buy her a house one day
I'll probably send Katie and Kira
Off to college too
But right now I'm broke as a joke
I should do comedy
Dude, I need a job, somebody hire me fast
So I could win my girl over
She probably cheatin on my ass
You motherfuckers better try and snatch her
While she up for grabs

All this commotion goes in one ear
Out the other
I'm still gone make it, one way or the other

(Quit acting like a kid herb, gone be a man
It's a man's world
How you suppose to feed your fam
You need to act more like an adult
Pull up your pants i know you do music but
What's your plan B man)

(Ab-Soul talking)
Its like real difficult to articulate it
It's like you got your goals
You got your aspirations
Your dreams, and you chasing that
You pursuing that but in turn it cost for
You to sacrifice alot of
Your availability to go out their
And get this paper, nah mean?
Its hard to say you a man still
And livin at your momma house

Yo, I had a conversation with my step-pops
Basically inquiring the time frame
When I'mma pop i told'em I ain't know but
I'm determined to blow not like a fluffer
More like plaques that's platinum and gold
Thats on my great-grandmother
He shook his head and said:
"I don't know much about the music
Industry but whats been said
The people ain't making no bread
Lets be more realistic
How you gone take care of a wife?
How you gone feed your children
Im on my knees everyday
Tryna provide for yall
I bought that car that you dippin
But you don't chip in
You shouldve went to UCLA
Like your cousin Jay
He got a big signing bonus
Every year like 80k"
I looked him in the face and
Said "It ain't about the money
And honestly
Buying an education sounds funny
But have a little faith in your son
I'll come through for ya"
He said be a man Herb
Thats all I really want from ya

All this commotion goes in one ear
Out the other
I'm still gone make it, one way or the other

(Quit acting like a kid herb, gone be a man
It's a man's world
How you suppose to feed your fam
You need to act more like an adult
Pull up your pants i know you do music but
What's your plan B man)