[00:32.89]Let me take it back to my childhood
[00:34.42]When Six Flags was still called Wildwood
[00:36.54]Where I had every race as a neighbor
[00:38.23]We were all working class trying to make it out of our hood
[00:40.14]My best friend back then was a white kid
[00:42.05]We was tight he liked the same things I did
[00:44.17]Despite us being different colors, man
[00:46.27]We were tight as Elmer's, and we called each other brothers
[00:48.22]While I was trying to keep my Nikes clean
[00:50.19]He was trying to scuff his Chucks up
[00:51.76]He was grunge, I was fresh we were young
[00:53.53]And we cuss along to rap trying to sneaking into punk clubs
[00:55.37]But things changed when his pops got laid off
[00:57.99]He blamed my father for the loss of his job
[00:59.84]He said immigrants robbed citizens jobs
[01:01.75]And I better never set foot again in his yard
[01:04.12]As we became adults in a cult called America, he got himself a job as an officer of law
[01:07.88]My thoughts got blacker and his views got cracker
[01:09.99]There was no way backwards, to the roots at heart
[01:11.80]Many years apart, I recognized him in the news
[01:13.83]He shot a black man that was sitting in his car
[01:15.77]Near the same park where we used to shoot hoops
[01:17.92]And all I could blame was the cause
[01:19.73]You grew up
[01:22.29]No you didn't change
[01:24.32]You were made the same
[01:25.68]As those before you came
[01:27.18]You grew up
[01:30.19]All our growing pains
[01:31.64]Were given like our names
[01:33.73]You just bought the blame
[01:35.27]You grew up
[01:38.51]No you didn't change
[01:40.11]You were made the same
[01:42.12]As those before you came
[01:43.82]You grew up
[01:46.11]All our growing pains
[01:48.07]Were given like our names
[01:50.08]You just bought the blame
[01:51.87]You grew up
[01:52.89]You ever have a friend that became a fanatic
[01:54.09]Most of you all haven't
[01:55.35]But if you ever did
[01:56.14]You'd understand the one thing they all have in common
[01:57.94]That somebody took advantage of their damage as a kid
[02:00.00]I knew a guy who's folks were professors
[02:02.00]Proof in the flesh that Allah was a blesser
[02:04.16]Grew up in a mid-western town, where there weren't many brown people he could seek reflection
[02:08.17]?Got picked on in school during lectures
[02:10.03]Graduated hating everybody in his class
[02:12.04]Picked on because he prayed five to the east
[02:13.91]And he didn't eat meat that Allah said was bad
[02:15.88]One day a man approached him in a mosque
[02:17.88]Changed his life when he asked him a question
[02:19.83]Do you ever feel your life was a loss
[02:21.90]And what if I could teach you that life is a weapon
[02:23.99]Attracted strong to the feeling of acceptance
[02:25.84]He was soon gone with delusions of a cause
[02:27.90]People of the present had faces of the past, make it easier to blast them if he feel they did him wrong
[02:31.81]You can raise a child in a house full of love
[02:33.76]But can't keep them safe in a world full of hate
[02:35.82]So he blew up
[02:37.45]The only mistake that could hold all the blame
[02:39.82]You grew up
[02:42.08]No you didn't change
[02:43.99]You were made the same
[02:46.08]As those before you came
[02:47.54]You grew up
[02:50.10]All our growing pains
[02:51.49]Were given like our names
[02:53.78]You just bought the blame
[02:55.52]You grew up
[02:58.36]No you didn't change
[03:00.07]You were made the same
[03:02.03]As those before you came
[03:03.99]You grew up
[03:06.10]All our growing pains
[03:08.02]Were given like our names
[03:09.96]You just bought the blame
[03:11.58]You grew up
[03:12.89]My heart's a jug and when I was born it was filled with love
[03:14.86]It ranneth over, life ran me over till I spilled the blood
[03:19.83]I poured the cups and I left it up you to say enough
[03:23.87]Never ending, never quenching, I sealed it up
[03:28.02]Tried to change my reality but settled for, real enough
[03:33.03]Life is better when you're thinking lesser go on give it up
[03:34.94]When I was younger I was so determined I would change it all Couldn't fly but wasn't chained to fall
[03:39.92]So where is it I put the blame and cause
[03:52.42]Well, I grew up