Comin’ From Where I’m From

Where I’m from

Hearing sirens outside my window

Is like hearing birds chirp in the wilderness

Cops on the corner

Just chillin’ on the block

Like the street pharmacists they’re trying to catch

Where I’m from

There’s a corner store on every corner

Chinese restaurant on every block

Boys walking around

With their pants hanging off their ass

Girls wearing clothes that are 2 sizes too small

Having babies too soon

Wearing Gucci this

Fendi that

Rocking the newest Jordans every week

Yet living in the projects and can’t pay their rent

And the kids grow up thinking that’s what’s important

And continue the cycle

Where I’m from

Kids grow up without their daddies

Little boys looking to the streets for the father they never had

Little girls looking for the love their daddy didn’t give

In all the wrong places

From any guy that’s willing

To give them the time of day

And single moms working two jobs

Just to make ends meet

Missing out on seeing their kids grow up

Just so they can have a roof over their heads and food to eat

Unconsciously letting the television raise their kids

And they all grow up wanting to be

Rappers and video girls

And those who got game

Wanna be players

With million dollar contracts

Where I’m From?

I’m from a Guyanese mother

And a Jamaican father

Who left when I was 2

Only to come back around nine years later

A mother that worked nights to pay the rent

And gave up her dreams of being a nurse

So she could be around

To make sure I didn’t make the same mistake

My sister did

A mother who became a grandmother way too soon

Before my sister even graduated high school

A mother who worked hard

And taught me to do the same

A mother who struggled

And wanted a better life

For her children

A mother who made me proud of who I am

Proud of my West Indian culture

Listening to soca and reggae

Eating all the foods she grew up with

Where I’m from

We got so much pride

We just can’t help it

Where I’m from

We get it popping

We don’t say good morning

We say wats good

Where I’m from

We like DJ Khaled

Cuz we so hooood!

Where I’m from

We got our own song

And we don’t hesitate

To let people know

We’re the best

Where I’m from

No one on the corner got swagger like us

Where I’m from

We live our life

Got no time for no haters

Where I’m from it’s do or die

Where I’m from?

I’m from……

BROOKLYN!!!!!!!