Ali Guevara

Mama look at me
aren't you proud of what I did
I came a long way
From picking cotton as a kid
Running the streets as a teen
Ain't no way for me to live
So I had to buckle down
And get everything I could get
From running a muck as a jit
To one of the top nursing prospects
I graduate on Thursday
Then on Friday take the NCLEX
I'm trynna string up life stress
Tension-making a symphonies
Feeling like Nick Saban
With all of these fucking victories
ROLL TIDE
Made me a soul tie
Built up my family with em
Made me a gold mine
Took back my life for good
That took me no time
Whipped my own tears away
But you can still hear the joy cry for real

My potentials good I'm upward bound
They be asking where I'm going
My head up high my feet on ground
I tell them everywhere I been
Been through hell and back And what I found
As long as I have a love
No one loves you like you love you now
I say it's time well spent

Picture me hating It takes a
Nation to phase me I been
Patiently waiting for my
God to come save me
No uh
Life ain't that hard but I
Been hella anxious trynna
Get to the gate before temp-
-tation come take me

Dear Ron

Sometimes I think it funny that
We grow up in the same house
But somehow we got different paths
Even though we grow up with the
Same joy pain and laughs
I often sit back and reflect that
My mama lost her mama
To the same thing that she suffers from
Then watched my brother hit the block
With loaded guns
It was off to college playing ball
For the youngest one
While I was busy rapping
Trynna make it as the chosen one
Reese

My potentials good I'm upward bound
They be asking where I'm going
My head up high my feet on ground
I tell them everywhere I been
Been through hell and back And what I found
As long as I have a love
No one loves you like you love you now
I say it's time well spent