Protect and Provide

Ima ride for my family ties
Bought a gun cause my hood is not nice
All I want is to be a good guy
Tryin hard to protect and provide
Hustle on every day of my life
On my grind but my money aint right
All I want is to be a good guy
Tryin hard to protect and provide

Baby momma tellin everybody
He a lame cause he never see his chirren
Livin just around the way
It ain't that that he don't love em
But he feelin so ashamed
Cause he got nothin to give em
So he'd rather stay away
He show up empty handed
She gon have a lot to say
He show up wit a little
She gon throw it in his face
He really wish that he could
Just go over there and play
With his babies but she angry
So he giving her some space
He wanna be a father but
She never give him grace
Then wonder why their
Son and daughter never see his face
He made that dirty money
Till his partner caught a case
Aint gettin out of prison
Till that brotha forty eight
That's when he quit the dealin
And he started livin straight
To be there for his chirren
Stead of rottin in a cage
But now he barely payin rent
With that minimum wage
He prayin every day but
Slowly running out of faith

Ima ride for my family ties
Bought a gun cause my hood is not nice
All I want is to be a good guy
Tryin hard to protect and provide
Hustle on every day of my life
On my grind but my money aint right
All I want is to be a good guy
Tryin hard to protect and provide

Baby momma tellin everybody he a lame
But she don't need him for nothin
Cause she got another man
The brotha is a baller
Doin everything he can't
He heard his son and daughter
Started callin homie dad
He called his baby momma
But she never hit him back
So he roll to her apartment
full of jealousy and sad
He knockin on her door
It was opened by her man
He see his son and daughter
But the brotha wanna flex
Aint tryna disrespect
Homie get up out my way
I just wanna see my babies
Do not make me escalate
The brotha wasn't budgin
So he Ali Bomaye
Hit him with an upper cut
And now they both are full of rage
He pistol whipped the brotha
Just tryna intimidate
They said attempted murder
When a bullet went astray
He wanna live to see his babies
Come probation day
But its dangerous in prison
So he made himself a shank

Ima ride for my family ties
Bought a gun cause my hood is not nice
All I want is to be a good guy
Tryin hard to protect and provide
Hustle on every day of my life
On my grind but my money aint right
All I want is to be a good guy
Tryin hard to protect and provide

The story spiral forever
When ego is running reckless
Answering every challenge
With violence and deadly weapons
Think you makin it safer
But risking the very breath
Of every one of the people
You say you wanna protect
Don't listen to deception
The culture will try to feed
The presence of a violent man's
A deadly place to be
You can't control the victims
When macho is running free
A bomb exploded
Everybody close is gonna bleed
I know you frustrated but
But you really need to breathe
The measure of a man is not
His weapon or his cheese
Your presence more important
Than anything that you bring
But worse than everything
If your temper aint on a leash
Protection from yourself
Is your family's greatest need
Carry inside yourself an
Environment full of peace
Be generous with love
And trust the Lord above to be
The power that you need
In the hours you feeling weak

Ima ride for my family ties
Bought a gun cause my hood is not nice
All I want is to be a good guy
Tryin hard to protect and provide
Hustle on every day of my life
On my grind but my money aint right
All I want is to be a good guy
Tryin hard to protect and provide