A woman like that had me mesmerized sitting in the lounge(what the song’s name really is) and I got lost in her beauty.

Added this line for effect of the song, cause in reality I don’t even touch a bottle of alcohol hahaha.

Trashy is the name of the beat made by j dilla. Here, I play with the title a bit when I say that you’ll feel down on your luck and you’ll start getting thoughts that you won’t ever recover from poverty.

My grandma sometimes gives up all hope trying to teach me but that doesn’t stop her from at least trying lol

I am so hardheaded and stubborn its ridiculous lol but sometimes she may think that i don’t know how life really is and whatnot but I do. I know people scheme, kill, and all of that just from someone else’s experiences.

In the beginning of living at that office, i was apprehensive and scared for the near future. My grandmother comforted me and told me “All it is is a trial. As long as we have god in our hearts, it’ll be okay.” And I took her word for it.

This was a period of time when we basically had NO where to live. My grandmother’s friends didn’t help us out or anything, so we had to turn to her boss to help us out until we got back on our feet. It was weird living in that office for a bit but i got used to it.

We have to keep pushing onward in life like the blood in our bodies does in the circulatory.

We the people is a reference to the declaration of independence(ironic huh?)

We should hold ourselves responsible for all of the senseless violence that is caused by racism, and not just blame one side for it. What we learn from our past experiences should help us prepare a better future for ourselves.

For those who don’t know, Jim crow is or was basically a “public racism is allowed” provision that gave blacks a lesser quality of living still and many things were restricted. such as