[Intro: Solomon Childs]
Yeah, uh-huh, okay
I`m tired, I`m out here strugglin`, ma
These crooked ass police, these crooked ass bitches (Staten Island)
(New York City) I`mma hold it down, though, ma
[Solomon Childs]
Based on a best selling novel
With blood on the bottom of the Grey Goose bottle
You muthafuckas is finished (get `em)
Even the feds tried poisoning my I.V. (yeah)
Solomon Childs, A.K.A. The Chemical Ali (come on)
Sat the L.Q. and the Redbull (you know)
Distribution, the rule, since `76 (uh-huh)
The streets support, red, nigga (uh-huh), get my bread nigga (uh-huh)
Criminal ambitious, prepare for the millennium missions and I was born alone
So I`mma die alone (get `em), scholarships
From workin` with a soul crisis (yeah) all praises due
To Allah`s my idol, eyo so Dominicano (get `em)
On the streets, squeezin` them 16 shot Germans
Up north, had beef with them Germans, complex murders
[Chorus: sample {Solomon Childs}]
Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {mama I don`t wanna cry}
Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {mama do you hear my cry?}
Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {yeah, uh-huh}
Mama can you hear me? {for sure}
Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {mama I don`t wanna cry, it`s a problem now nigga}
Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?)
{Mama do you hear my cry?, you talk too muthafuckin` much}
Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {whoever said would get his feelings forever}
Mama can you hear me?
{Brother, whatever it is, nigga, you gotta put in work, nigga, come on}
[Solomon Childs]
This year I`m dancin` with the devil (get `em)
Rebel without a cause (uh-huh)
Somethin` authentic, enemy of the state
Who said the rich couldn`t relate?
Wild like them Haitians on Vice City, and Little Havana
And it gets yourself killed for false propaganda
Hittin` hammers with the lulu kids (yeah)
Alone (uh-huh) like the last Arab
With AK`s in the palace in Baghdad
Talkin` is for lovers, I want powers beyond powers
Twenty O-3, Excalibur, Fidel Castro replica (get `em)
Hear the emotion, dog, this the projects
Summertime in color
[Chorus: sample {Solomon Childs}]
Mama can you hear me? (Mama)
{mama I don`t wanna cry, we ain`t playin` with you muthafucka}
Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {mama can you hear my cry? It`s my time, man}
Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {like it or not, nigga}
Mama can you hear me? {out with the old, in with the new, come on}
Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {mama I don`t wanna cry
Nigga, you know I don`t sound like nobody else, nigga}
Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?)
{Mama can you hear my cry?, I`mma show you what I`m talkin` bout
Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {It`s time we took it them}
Mama can you hear me? {Too money niggaz runnin` around talkin`, get ya shit sampled}
[Solomon Childs]
Straight through it, ain`t no exit wounds
You talkin` bout leavin` the scene red
You should of seen the movie I made in the tombs (get `em)
We the last outlaws (yeah) Valentine, we livin`, Nexus, we livin` (get `em)
Drivin` to the top like Stallone in Driven (uh-huh)
Raised with extortion sting (yeah) with gunplay
Like Pacino in the original script for Chinese Coffee (yeah, uh-huh)
Like the Tribe of Malachi (get `em)
What makes you think we mans, what makes you think it don`t take much
To force these hands (get `em)
You doin` battle with an animal, the ultimate struggle
[Chorus: sample {Solomon Childs}]
Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {mama I don`t wanna cry}
Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {mama do you hear my cry?}
Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {Ray Don for president, nigga}
Mama can you hear me? {Do you hear the future, nigga?, takin` over}
Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {mama I don`t wanna cry, I`m skin` if you hear the future}
Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {Mama do you hear my cry? Frank Nitty}
Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {Ya`ll give it to me, if you really feel it}
Mama can you hear me? {Kirk Gat, A-Team, Louie Armstrong, nigga}
Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {New York City, Staten Island, ya`ll niggaz get ready}
Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {B-Town}
Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {Body Brighton, niggaz stop sellin`
Fuck you off, til you gettin` static}
Mama can you hear me? (Mama) {Big Eloheim for security, nigga}
Mama can you hear me? (Can you hear me?) {We got this, man, believe me}
Mama can you, mama can you hear me? {I`m tellin` you dog, we got this}
Mama can you hear me? (Mama)
