If It Wasn't

If it wasn't for yo' momma
 Never thinkin' I was good enough
 If it wasn't for yo' brotha
 Always checkin' every move, I gave up
 If it wasn't for that bitch
 Down the block always in yo' ear
 Be no room for messin' up
 But baby love, you'd be right here
 Tell me why must I, since they bought us things
 Suffer indefinitely for loving you
 Sugar why must I prove to anybody but you
 Feel I been chosen to loose, I paid my dues, oh
 If it wasn't for yo' momma
 Never thinkin' I was good enough
 If it wasn't for yo' brotha
 Always checkin' every move, I gave up
 If it wasn't for that bitch
 Down the block always in yo' ear
 Be no room for messin' up
 But baby love, you'd be right here
 I'd been lying too, if I said to you
 That they're pressuring me away from you
 It's that she's run this
 Got us fighting over dumbness
 Got my heart on some numbness
 That's your momma and I can't take it, no more
 I gets no joy but when I hurt
 So when it hurts, it really hurts
 If it wasn't for yo' momma
 Never thinkin' I was good enough
 If it wasn't for yo' brotha
 Always checkin' every move, I gave up
 If it wasn't for that bitch
 Down the block always in yo' ear
 Be no room for messin' up
 But baby love, you'd be right here
 Gotta learn to keep your family out the game
 When you're trying to do your thing
 They got more that's due
 Just 'cause momma fed you right all your life
 Don't mean she walk on a perfect line
 Watch your step or pay the price, sacrifice
 Mothers, sisters, fathers, brothers
 Cousin's, aunts and uncles too
 You know them be the main 'cause
 Just because we know them
 Doesn't mean that they ain't workin' you
 Always it's something, something, something goin' on
 If it wasn't for yo' momma
 Never thinkin' I was good enough
 If it wasn't for yo' brotha
 Always checkin' every move, I gave up
 If it wasn't for that bitch
 Down the block always in yo' ear
 Be no room for messin' up
 But baby love, you'd be right here