Oh yeah I'm thankful for another
Thank my sister mother, father and my brothers
Say Happy Birthday
Oh yeah I'm grateful for another
Thank my friends and the hating mothefuckers oh yeah
Say happy birthday

I remember when things was oh so simple
Saturday cartoons , Sega, Super Nintendo
Learning my ABC's a n***a stil say LMNO
How it go from that to me getting my first pimple
I fucking hated school looking all the hell I went through
Sallie Mae on my ass, think they care a n***a rent due
Torn between filling my pockets and trying to fill venues
I could Kill a mother fucker but James don't go Orenthal
Un momento I'm about to gain momentum
About to buy family homes I ain't never considered renting
Live enormous or die dormant, Jay thanks for the way of living
Ain't met a N***a that ain't wanna be Jordan over Pippen
Is you kidding, thought I never grow up
Got a room full of folks hoping that I never blow up
Praying that they take off, the same time I slow up
Man don't gets your hopes, egg me on get yoked up
I make these suckers throw up, tell my exes so what
And since everybody's a boss who the hell gone own up
To living filet mignon lifestyles when their pockets cold cuts
No such thing as penny pinching and pimping n***a hol' up
That's word to Martin Lawrence
Until I'm riding in foreign's
My reign has begun, beware n***a its pouring
When you doing something right. Look at all the ways they eye you
Tryna blow my candles before I do

They told me told do better, but never better than
I let the fools catch up. Btttt never again
I keep it moving n***a, when they was settling in
I felt the rooms pressure, I survived no wonder why
They wanna blow my candles out

One by one


Can a n***a celebrate, cause I made it to 23
Can a n***a have his cake, without you hollering for a piece
By any means, but I still hollering for some peace
But if a sucker disrespects, I'll be hollering get the piece
Give'm a piece of mind before he's left resting in peace
Cuz I wouldn't mind the peace and funerals aren't cheap
You seen the price of a headstone lately
They buried mike in a Promethean, a wooden cross is what Jesus get
Dyings the easiest but living and believing it
Is meaningless, hard to believe the reaper is
A step around the corner, a block from where you stay
And he's always in the hood, that sickos ready to play
Seen the grim grin on the n***a who robbed me for my jays
Man I took them sneakers off and got to live another day
Cuz no material possession worth my well being
Got a few folk pissed to hear that Trell's breathing
I'm doing better than ever, better than I could imagine
No I'm lying doing better than my teachers who told me rapping
Was the last thing that I should be considering success in
Ironic when teachings a average paying profession
Am I wrong for wanting gourmet meals not out the drive thru
This world'll kill a brother ask Janet how they did Michael
When you doing something right, everybody despise you
Tryna blow my candles out before I do


They told me told do better, but never better than
I let the fools catch up. Btttt never again
I keep it moving n***a, when they was settling in
I felt the rooms pressure, I survived no wonder why
They wanna blow my candles out