Nom - Retrospective lyrics

rate me

It’s 97' and we living in that city housing

And it’s kind of shitty sounding but to me is so astounding

Memories of my mother saying the sweetest things

She’d wake me up for school as she tell me that I’ll be a king

And I know, I know it wasn’t always easy

But you kept the table full, Power Rangers on the TV,

Never greedy all the fucking lengths you went to feed me

Now you say your own arms just to never see me needy

And believe me I was too clean in the summer time

Daddy working double time just to get my number 9's

And if it meant working on the Labor Day

It seems he always made a way to make my fucking natal day

Remember we were parlay, through a pissy hallway

On the fall day to celebrate like all day

And in my mind, I see it so vividly

Just daddy and little me such powerful imagery

A wonderful memory

Cause I remember well, the first time I ever hit a L

Just trying to free my mind from a mental state of living hell

See I was planning on living well

A young teen with a dream breaking free of his parental shell

I’m with my niggas four deep in a garage

Playin' Cuddy on the phone as we living a mirage

Just feeling like we had the world right in our palms

Doing shit that had them old heads reciting our songs

But now I’m, righting my wrongs when I’m writing these songs

Hoping my vision give the younger niggas sight when I’m gone

Cause see, my only plan is to inspire a squire

Put my niggass in some foreign attire before I get old expire or tired

See I got it all planned out, don’t need a hand out

I’m just trying to stand out

And in my mind I see it so vividly

Even if they belittled me they can never get free of me

Such powerful imagery

Thanks to CORRECTED by JC for correcting these lyrics