Jay-z Featuring Beanie Sigel Where Have You Been Lyrics

Where Have You Been Lyrics

[Beanie Sigel]
Damn how am I gonna say this shit?
hey... hey dad, yeah
it's your boy
remember me? I wanna talk to you scrap

I remember being
kicked out the house
'cause I looked just like you
Said I'd be nothing but
a crook
just like you
The niggaz in the hood was shook
Where the just
like you
'Cause all they said was little whitey look
I'm just like
you
But dog I can't see it at all, shit
We never kicked it at all
We
never pitched or kicked at a ball
dog, you never taught me shit
how to
fight, ride a bike, fix a flat
none of that sorts of shit
Nigga you was
an abusive pops
fuck you left me out to dry, stuck
gotta teach news to
box
gotta teach news to bop
and that aint the half of it man
I gotta
teach news to block
It's about time we have a father to son (nigga sit
down)
sit down let me tell you 'bout your fatherless sons
how they grew
to be men and father they sons
father they daughters
nigga, you left a
fatherless daughter
I never follow your orders
nigga you make me
sick
pussy you could....ooh
how you gonna leave these memories in the
back of my mind
I can see it clear as day you smackin my mom
I 'member
that day you showed me that gat, that 9
put it in my palm when I was
young
and said that would be mine, you turned me out
the reason why I hit
the block
reason why I tried to hit them cops
reason why I started hittin
shots
reason why I started gettin licked
and drinkin syrup and skippin
court
ginger bread man never think of gettin caught
look at your hand man
damn you fought
nigga you left my mom
left us with no good-bye's
you
left us out to dry
you left us with no letters, notes, (nothing!) no
replies
no digits numbers was unlisted
you left us with some of my
loneliest night
nigga some of my hungriest nights
shit, one of the
reasons for years (shit embarrasin)
damn we used to think money was
white
yeah you gave us life like, fruit from a plant
we aint eat right
from them foods from them stamps
and to think you was my pop,
man i gotta
stop shit

chorus: (Beanie Sigel)
dad where have you been
(and when
you come home you got us here all along)
mommy where daddy went
(you
always take up for him always said you'd make up for him)
mommy what
happened then
(what was you cheatin on him why he was always beatin on
you?)
daddy where have you been?
(nigga, you gonna hear me
out)

[Jay-Z]
I wanted to walk just like him (remember?)
wanted to
talk just like him (word)
often momma said I look too much
and I thought
just like him (it could happen)
wanted to drink Miller nips
and smoke
Newports just like you
but you left me, now I'm goin to court just like
you
I would say "my daddy loves me and he'll never go away"
bullshit, do
you even remember December's my birthday?
do you even remember the tender
boy
you turned into a cold young man
with one goal and one plan
get
mommy out of some jam, she was always in one
always short with the
income
always late with the rent
You said that you was comin through
I
would stay in the hallway (waitin)
always playin the bench (waitin)
and
that day came and went
Fuck You! very much you showed me the worst kind of
pain
but I'm stronger and trust me I will never hurt again
will never ask
mommy "why daddy don't love me?
Why is we so poor?, why is life so
ugly?
Mommy why is your eyes puffy?"
please don't cry everything'll be
alright
I know it's dark now, but we gon' see the light
It's us against
the world
we don't need him, right? (right)
mommy drivin 6's now (yeah),
I got riches now (yeah)
I bought I nice home for both of my sisters
now
we doin real good
we don't miss you now
see how life twists
around? (fucka!)

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