Let The Kids Grow

[Intro: Master P]

Aye, y’all know I'm not perfect I did a lot of wrong

Man spared me and I've been changing my life

I’m telling you you could do the same thing

But don’t do it for me do it for yourself

And do it for ya kids, Cuz they the future

[Hook: Master P]

Let the kids grow, let the kids dream

I was lost I used to hustle in the same street

Let the kids win, let the kids play

If we change for tomorrow it’ll be a brighter day (x2)

[Verse 1: Master P]

They call the girls freaks, and the boys geeks

Cuz they in school and you running from the police

Oh you a tough guy, you got a phat ride

Cried like a baby when the judge gave you five

Oh you a gangsta ya son wanna be just like you

Bet he change his mind when the feds came and indict you

Oh you a oldhead, and you talk fast

A real gangsta and ya hide behind that ski mask

I heard you flipped stacks, yeah I did that

A brother dead, a dozen friends can't get them back

And since I changed I guess they think I got soft

I guess you hard when you dead or locked behind bars

I'm a real OG, ain't got nothing to prove

Put down the guns pick up the pens let the kids choose

Let 'em be doctors, let 'em be lawyers

Let 'em make it out the hood let 'em see tomorrow

[Hook: Master P]

Let the kids grow, let the kids dream

I was lost I used to hustle in the same street

Let the kids win, let the kids play

If we change for tomorrow it’ll be a brighter day (x2)

[Verse 2: Romeo]

First I'd like to thank momma for the life that was given

Got the heart of a lion never needed a prison

Lost my cousin, now Dante gone

Had Jay like Brayden and that’s Moses Malone

Got kids in the pen, why they do that crime

Black Queens just standing in welfare lines

So much peer pressure, kids smoking weed

I was taught to never follow be the one to lead

What it Ben Franklin died at the age 15

And we never felt the presence of, ML King

Life would be a whole lot different no civil rights

Will we still be fighting over black and white

What if, Baron Davis never went to school

Or Noah never built the ark or followed the rules

See, life's given, we don’t choose how we live it

I thank the Lord every night I'm still here living

[Hook: Master P]

Let the kids grow, let the kids dream

I was lost I used to hustle in the same street

Let the kids win, let the kids play

If we change for tomorrow it’ll be a brighter day (x2)

[Outro: Master P]

Ain't nothing wrong with change, Just think about it

Put the guns down and pick up a pen

You could be killing the next Michael Jordan

The next Oprah Winfrey, The next Bill Cosby

The next Will Smith, The next young child

They could be the next president

Don't hate me, Cuz I'm taking a stand

We’ll be alright, If you play your role, You feel me

And Before ya judge and condemn somebody else

Just look in the mirror

And ask yourself, what u doing