Skyzoo - Turning 10 lyrics

My man used to sling to his mother
Took a couple dollars off so
She ain't think he don't love her
I said damn son your pops don't
Care? He said "Son, i don't know"
My father been in and outta Rikers since I
Was 9 years old he passed me the L and
Then continued to bag snow
I pictured myself in his shoes
And took a drag slow his mother came in the
Room with seven singles
He gave her a bag of stones
Her face said heaven sent you i was 14
Known as a mixture of straight
Scheming and debate teaming
A tug of war to break me even
I was weaving through what was intended
And what was a given
Where it's easy to jump in the
Rhythm and fuck with the vision
Been forever since we kicked it
Last thing I heard is he was bidding
They got him infinity number dripping
The juxtaposition of what the allure be
They placed him with his pops so now
Gets to tell his father the story

All my friends who got a son with their ex
I tell them right off the deck
Go and get your son when he turns 10
And all the women I know who know what's best
And the way that this shit is set
Give that boy up when he turns 10
I applaud you for thuggin' it
Never wavering how you loving him
But now it's daddy's turn to run with him
So if you got a son with you ex
I tell you right off the deck
Go and get your son when he turns 10

I was 10 when I moved from
Crown Heights to the Stuy
Took me from Ebbets Field to
Up the block from BI
My mother said yo you've hit an age
Where you're bout to feel a change
And as a woman there's only
So much I can demonstrate
At first I ain't get it, young and innocent
Blind fold the differences
Penning and dribbling over 1010
Skinnies and bigger reluctance
My father was always around but
At 10 it adjusted
And all the layers that it comes with
Like a man can't teach a girl
How to be a woman
And a woman can't teach a boy how to be a man
So like Tre and them
My dad made the call to moms
She said you wanted him you got
Him and my corner evolved
So when a block party's jumping
And my friends moms pulled me
Aside like talk to him
Maybe your aura can touch him i get it
But really though I'm just
Funneling this tradition down
From back when I turned 10 to
The shit I give you now

All my friends who got a son with their ex
I tell them right off the deck
Go and get your son when he turns 10
And all the women I know who know what's best
And the way that this shit is set
Give that boy up when he turns 10
I applaud you for thuggin' it
Never wavering how you loving him
But now it's daddy's turn to run with him
So if you got a son with you ex
I tell you right off the deck
Go and get your son when he turns 10

I know a girl who I told this all to
Homey of mine
Heard it and felt it was all true
Told me her only problem is that
If she can't find him
Then how can she realign him with her son
Like fuck is she 'sposed what to do?
I told her what you do
Is show him what you're down for
Keep wearing the pants and never let
Him take his crown off
Never let him become the
Mu'fucker he came from
Don't let that define him, there's
Still time to save son, but otherwise
You got a son with you ex
I tell you right off the deck
Go and get your son when he turns 10
And all the women I know who know what's best
And the way that this shit is set
Give that boy up when he turns 10
I applaud you for thuggin' it
Never wavering how you loving him
But now it's daddy's turn to run with him
So if you got a son with you ex
I tell you right off the deck
Go and get your son when he turns 10