Jericho Jackson - Seventeen lyrics

At seventeen, you wouldn't be the youngest
Corpse heaven's seen
For a pair of Air Jordans size 11 clean
You would hustle during REM hours
If you pushed up daisies
Or gaury stem flowers look alive
Now everyone has your best interests at heart
Wouldn't be close if y'all
Was interests apart the interesting part
At sixteen, you work a shift at Mickey D's
Read comic books, kept your room clean
And your grades up but now they slippin'
Like bloods hanging where they crippin'
Put the cock back, stick the clip in
You see how girls love the jewelry drippin'
And gossipin' about what they whippin'
You and them never locked lips
When you were sixteen
You lost your virginity a month ago
Weeks before that, you started puffin' dro
Hangin' with the wrong crowd
Joyridin' in the stolen car
Bangin' songs loud
Mom's kicked you out the crib
'Cause you stayed out all night
Stay high all day
And that will make you fight
You thinking you grown you only seventeen
You wouldn't be the youngest
Corpse that heaven's seen
For a pair of Air Jordans size 11 clean
You would run up on a
N, steal somebody's car
Empty out the reverend's jeans

Now you off the pills pushing wheels
And stacking up some dollar bills
How it feels to live the life you hear
About portrayed inside of rap
Songs and see inside of
Movies made by Paramount
Your mom's praying for
You wonder what the prayer 'bout
Is it the duck low in areas
That your rivals' airing out?
Last week your man's got shot
But he recovered he came home
Murdered one and looking for the other
So now you stay strapped at all times
'Cause life involves crime that
Could kill you
Like the fall from a tall climb
Plus you live under the same
Roof with his granny
Livin' wild, taking xanny
Sniffin' nose candy
When you got the call from your first telling
You that she hasn't had her period
Of course she wasn't hearing it
Young and inexperienced
You were just sixteen last year
Working drive thru as a cashier
Sometimes you past there and reminisce
Now you in some hot water and your
Choices are to swim a fish
'Cause last night is when
Your spot got raided
Be lucky that no hotshot sprayed it
You thinking you grown, you only seventeen
You wouldn't be the youngest
Corpse that heaven's seen
For a pair of Air Jordans size 11 clean
You would risk it all
Keep your mouth shut or stab a
Knife into your brethren's spleen
Those are repercussions that you
Probabaly ain't seen
Hope you make better decisions
When you eighteen if you doing jailtime and
Swipe the slate clean
Hope you make better decisions
When you eighteen
Once you learn the definition
Of what fate mean
Hope you make better decisions when you-
Gun shot too many fake friendships nowadays
I'm gonna give you my own
Insight on this subject
When we talk of people not being
Who they say they are
We meet people, they turn on us, they change
We're like
"Wait a minute what are you doing?"
I say it's all about looking
How to attract positive
Versions of yourself and negative
Versions of yourself you see, a lot of us
We see someone and they're smiling
They're happy, they're singing
They're full of joy
And we say, "Oh, I like that person"
But, you haven't seen their other side
Now depending on which side they show you
That is gonna form an image
Of them in your mind
That is why a lot of us
We don't show our negative side to people
Because otherwise
We're not gonna have any friends i say
It's all about knowing who you
Are to attract the right
People to assist you in
Becoming your greatest version
When we talk of how to spot a fake
Friend or how to find the right friend
I say, for instance
Right now in this social media world
You can have thousands of friends
But ask yourself
On a rainy day when you're home alone
Will they be around?
Will they be around when the times are hard?
Probably not