Intro;
People aren't respecting life
They're not respecting life
Your wasting their life doing nothin' or doin' rubbish
You don't know when the last day is gunna be man
Don't even get me all emotional up in here
Verse:
Coming from the ghetto, man i've seen it all
Seen a couple gangster's fall
Seen a man snake his best friend just for a couple jewels
Seen a man come into some money then they act a fool
Stuntin' on their boys instead of helping bring them through
That love of money's evil man, i know that for sure
How many man were locked in prison cause they risked it for more
So we go hard and get it in and all we want is some more
Hunger always turns to greed, man i've seen it before
We used to chill up on the block tryin' to [?] to eat
The pizza man would come round we'd have to rob him to eat
Man the things i would of done with some new Nikes on my feet
Cause when your kicks are beaten up it's always harder to beat
School days all the girl's weren't talking to me
Now everyday i get a dm like 'long time no see'
I used to tell all 'dem what i would grow up to be
But they just didn't have the vision, they just couldn't see
Now look at me, look at me, here on BBC
Shouts to all the people locked in to listen to me
Shout my little brother locked down in HMP
I know he's gassed right now like 'he's talkin' 'bout me'
Yo what's good, what you on? what you sayin' bro?
I couldn't come up last week i had the funeral
Yeah our cousin passed away, it was emotional
Look, let me tell you a little story about my cousin 'n' his wife
They met at 17 and it was love at first sight, they got married, had kids and everything was all nice
They all moved out to Brum just to start a new life
One day my cousin clocked, he just didn't seem right
Appetite all disappeared, He's feeling different inside
Stomach ache, losing weight, finding blood in his bowels
Finally got it checked up, found out he had cancer of the bowels
Cancer and hes only 35, you can only imagine how that news hit his children and his wife
He turned 37, still fighting and alive
We all had them high hopes, thinking yeah he might survive
Things are on the up, he ain't giving up
One thing you need to know about my cousin, he was tough
He had it 2 years and he still didn't drop, the cancer picked the wrong one it should of just fucked off
Word round the family, its goin' away and that we dont need to worry, everything's okay then we get a phone call like the very next day; sayin' his wifes being diagnosed with the same
You hear what im sayin? I don't think that you clocked, his wife got the same exact cancer he got, tell me that's not mad, tell me that's not alot, it's not something you can catch so please tell me what's the odds? Please tell me why after one year she died? She was beautiful on the out and inside, had such a kind heart man, such a nice vibe and anyone that's met her says the same things as i, 4 weeks later, my cousin died too, he passed on the day right before her funeral, he didn't wanna say goodbye, he wanted to say hi, he missed her so much he went to see her in the sky
Both 38, a few weeks apart, they say cancer killed them both, I say he had a broken heart, they had 5 sons, why do the good die young but the evil bad mind people always live long
Man that shits so wrong, man that shits so long
Yeah, life ain't fair, thats the theme to this song
That cancer shit? It tore the family apart so from now on im riding with a heavy heart and thats real shit
RIP Omena, RIP Makeda
