Role Model - DJ EFN, Bun B, Jarren Benton

Yesterday was a moment that came soon

I expect to be a blessing, what other way should I prove

That we don’t need a picture, develop the focused minds

When it disenvision spitting like man that’s a cool design

Smoking on stone, barefooted, no food

Barely clean water flowing for drinking, and think of shoes

Was you dreaming it’s on, you know what song

When you’re shot you came home, and electric still on

Got a call from a place that you can’t reach with a phone

This a message for the people in the form of a song

Strong bones build walls like a concrete tower

Rained pourin' till it’s fell from the clouds like showers

Broken soul, need a healing, when you’re hoping for change

I just notice if you’re thinking that’s a moment of power

This an elevator, step into the proper direction

I’m the perfect man who listen, I’m projecting perception

Y’all don’t know that I don’t want no problems

Trying to provide me a role model

I done turned a penny to a whole dollar

Missin' lane hoping I’m on full throttle

Y’all don’t know that I don’t want no problems

Trying to provide me a role model

I done turned a penny to a whole dollar

Missin' lane hoping I’m on full throttle

Waking up in the cold world with no heat

BSB, bop it up and down your street

The world we live in is crooked and corrupt

So we got to let the next generation know what’s up

We got to give em the game they need to survive

Make sure they don’t just exist, but that they thrive

Staying alive, know on days it ain’t a given

Got to be aware of the surroundings that you live in

It don’t matter who you are or what you’re repping

There’s some booby traps laid so watch where you’re stepping

See they don’t really want us to win

Hell, they really didn’t even want to let us in

But keep on striving and keep on hoping

Won’t be long before the doors is opened

You can break out of the crazy hood that you left it

Wise words from the OG and EFN, baby

Y’all don’t know that I don’t want no problems

Trying to provide me a role model

I done turned a penny to a whole dollar

Missin' lane hoping I’m on full throttle

Y’all don’t know that I don’t want no problems

Trying to provide me a role model

I done turned a penny to a whole dollar

Missin' lane hoping I’m on full throttle

Tryna be a role model, so many issues, I down the whole bottle

Used to feel inadequate, fuck it, didn’t want to see tomorrow

Niggas put too much hope in Barack

Kids grow up fatherless, their mama smoking on rocks

Where the role models when we out strolling these blocks

Ain’t no rocket scientists, no lawyers or docs

Crackheads, dope boys, single mothers, and cops

They fear for their life, can’t cherish any moment they got

That’s the mind of a young soldier in these lost communities

His 13th eulogy, where is the opportunities?

Ain’t no young dreamers, the reality’s a nightmare

We bitch over policies, kids deserve the right care

Fuck the crooked office of politicians and preachers

Waiting on some leader to reach us, nigga please

Seen some dark clouds, the sky forever blue

Dream big young kings, the role model is you

Y’all don’t know that I don’t want no problems

Trying to provide me a role model

I done turned a penny to a whole dollar

Missin' lane hoping I’m on full throttle

Y’all don’t know that I don’t want no problems

Trying to provide me a role model

I done turned a penny to a whole dollar

Missin' lane hoping I’m on full throttle