Lupe Fiasco, Anthony Hamilton - Coming From Where I'm From lyrics

You know, you got this fantasy in your head
About getting out of the
Life and setting that other world
On it's ear what the fuck are you gonna do
Except hustle? Now, man, i ain't
Puttin' you down i'm just tryna
Make it real, baby, like it is like it is

Lupe Fiasco came from the ghetto
You know! (Ugh, yeah) food & Liquor!
It's the ghetto right here, man! Uh, huh

Ayy, it's real here
(Uh, huh) , dope fiends steal here
Turn around
Give us the money to buy wheels here
Give you the chills
Yeah? Developers don't build here
The property values low 'cause we still here
(Ha) better believe most of us wanna leave
Furthest we went was out of our minds
But we still here weapons concealed here
Lil' sisters on the pill here
Can't pay our bills here
But we like to chill here (yeah)
Gotta reap what you sow
Grow what you till here
Your mama weep where you sowed
‘cause you was killed there
Police put cameras on poles
Too many deals there
Gotta go to the county 'cause
You was filmed there (Yup)
How does it feel knowing
Innocence was killed here? (Mm)
Last night, down the park
Beating heart was stilled there (Tss)
For the love of his chain
I make appeals here
Let's pray for our brains
Bust downs kneel here church, yeah

Sometimes I get rushed
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Times have got hard, yeah (Y'know? yeah)
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I gotta walk to work, yeah
(Tales of a young Black male, woo)
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I gotta do a little dirt
(Facing this old Black)
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)

There was once a child in here
'Cause all the tribulations and
The trials in here (yeah)
And all the limitations of his housing there
Became a teenage trafficker, a thousand-aire
Captivated with what the drug dealer told
Infatuated with what the drug dealers drove
(Mm)
A life validated by what a drug dealer holds
On the stand 'cause what
Another drug dealer told
A drug dealer woes, time wait's for no man
No woman wait's for a man
With time on his hands (They don't)
Didn't you know? Lord, they fearing Ye now
They hearing Ye now
'specially when the "Conspiracy"s come down
(They scared now) we come down
Get humble it's no longer fun now
But who gonna hustle to feed his son now?
(Oh) from the cradle to the cage
We bring our sons to get gunned down
Our daughters to have more it's war

Sometimes I get lonely (Yuh)
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Things ain't what they seem to be
(Or a reasonable facsimile of it)
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I get a little angry
(Just ain't me, though)
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes it gets the best of me
(It's all us, man)

Well I tried to be good
Wanted nothing but to love somebody
Didn't wanna die young
Grinding, hustling, tryna feed my family
Too scared to have kids
And do what Daddy did
'Cause, I'm so scared of failing
Sometimes it gets hard
Coming from where I'm from (Sometimes)

But, but it's beautiful here
There's nothing like the feeling when
You do it from here
You ain't have to move a pack
You ain't have to shoot a gat
And you still took your mama
And you moved her from here
You ain't dropped out
And you figured the world out
Can survive 'bout anywhere learn how
To do it in here
Yeah, that's how we do it in here
Hearing shorties at play is like
Music to the ear
We still get by, you know? (yeah)

Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes you gotta mourn
Coming from where I'm from (I'm' from)
Sometimes I gotta cry a little bit louder
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I gotta fight the pain, yeah
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I gotta walk along
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I get a little worried
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I get lost, out of touch
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I think I pray a
Little bit too much
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)
Sometimes I get a little scared
Coming from where I'm from (I'm from)