[Beat]
Yea welcome to my life (raydiation)
city of carson thats where i grew up (yea)
thats where i knew of (the view) thats all i knew of (yea)
in kindegarten until i got out of skoo
i started to hang with the fools
i went from here to bad news.
then ma sister started to blow up
i saw the money just go up
but i hardly saw her and my mother i used to
hang round the corner
i felt like i was a loner but i got love for my homies
i started changin flirtin with gang bangin
had the hook up on ol' skoo
so everyday i was out hangin and
then i heard gun shots
they aimin at my head and thats when the fun stopped
cuz next i might be dead i
called my mama on the phone
said this is your son i need some help
im in a whole lot of trouble and cant
get through by myself they shot out a plane
and flew me out no doubt
i said goodbye to my friends then
disappeared in the clouds
they told me ray j you gotta turn yourself around now
or throw it all away and
lay six feet in the ground
im totally focused
i gotta move forward
i hear my callin this time
i just wont ignore it into the future
throw all the past and then you came and you can grow....

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Writer(s): ARDEN ALTINO, JERRY DUPLESSIS, KENDU ISSACS, MARY BLIGE, SEAN COMBS