My father told me go and get em yessir yesssir Hit them back if they hit us yessir yessir Stand tall be a man if you fall understand you can always get back up And go again Yessir My father told me go and get em yessir yesssir Hit them back if they hit us yessir yessir Stand tall be a man if you fall understand you can always get back up And go again Yessir Lungs full of indica Skin color indigo Momma pitching pennies Having prayers of being plentiful Water full of chemicals Its poison where my sink at All my homies thirsty cause it aint nowhere to drink at Young dirty niggas all we wanted was a clean stack And I seen that Ten times with my eyes closed In a dark room get my mind blown I'm feeling marvelous Really must be a narcissus From thinking not a artist thats living Has been as hard as this Believe it We seen hard times but we still alive Once upon a time on a ride to the liqour store Boy asked his father said daddy what we living for? My father told me go and get em yessir yesssir Hit them back if they hit us yessir yessir Stand tall be a man if you fall understand you can always get back up And go again Yessir My father told me go and get em yessir yesssir Hit them back if they hit us yessir yessir Stand tall be a man if you fall understand you can always get back up And go again Yessir We was heartless But cooler than Antartica Nappy headed niggas With my older brothers Nautica Back when I was younger my nature was even naughtier Gold Buddha piece They say I'm more gaudier Trees in the garden of Eden I'm that gardener Pardon my lady when we drinking Shes a partier Left L.A.X Ended up in Lagaurdia Looking at the devil Like damn you outsmarted us Books on my shelf Money on my brothers books Bedtimes tell my daughters go and get another book My father once said yeah life is strange It was all written out But you write the page My father told me go and get em yessir yesssir Hit them back if they hit us yessir yessir Stand tall be a man if you fall understand you can always get back up And go again Yessir My father told me go and get em yessir yesssir Hit them back if they hit us yessir yessir Stand tall be a man if you fall understand you can always get back up And go again Yessir He was hustler He was a player But could never say my father wasnt there Taught me how to shoot a gun In my school years Even let the rifle bang on the New Years We celebrate with gumbo And blunts filled with Humbolt Feeling like a God on Earth but I'm still Humble And may my ancestors be blessed and look over me Protect me on my path getting rich from this poetry Miles Davis quintet for the end set Can I inject All the knowledge he would invest cool I swear on my tattoo that say Mathew I remember everything that you taught me true My father told me go and get em yessir yesssir Hit them back if they hit us yessir yessir Stand tall be a man if you fall understand you can always get back up And go again Yessir My father told me go and get em yessir yesssir Hit them back if they hit us yessir yessir Stand tall be a man if you fall understand you can always get back up And go again Yessir