This Is Dedicated - 8Ball, Phoenix Johnson

So happy, you filled me with joy

Thinking about what you did for your baby

Catching the bus in the snow on your way to work

Sometimes I’d walk with you to make sure you didn’t get hurt

Old dues flirt, but none really turned your head

If they was broke and walking, conversation turned dead

Breaking your back for them white folks every day

Making sure you and I had somewhere to stay

I remember when my great-grandmama was living

Senile and had to get a lot of your attention

You was young then but you still made time

She was going blind and losing her mind

It wasn’t nobody there but you to help her up

When she fell out of bed always reaching for stuff

You’re an angel, put on earth to watch over me

Thanks for watching over me, and this is dedicated…

I got much love for sure

Mama, I wish I could do more

You gave me life from yours

And I appreciate my mama

So I dedicate

I always into something—weed and women

14-years-old, hustlin' and street living

Giving all my time trying to be a key figure

In the cut getting blowed with them yam selling niggas

You always knew I had my hands in some stickiness

But I respected you by keeping you out of my business

But all things done in the dark come to the light

And God would never ever let me forget the night

Tears rolled down your cheek and your voice trembled

Telling me the police just left here looking for you

I know you don’t want me to be a thug

Always asking about my friends, hearing we sell drugs

Rapping wasn’t paying a cent then but you understood

Putting up with all my mess and doing what you could

Not to have a nervous breakdown, worrying

But for all your worry, this is dedicated

I got much love for sure

Mama, I wish I could do more

You gave me life from yours

And I appreciate my mama

So I dedicate

Way back before you, and long before me

Long before CD’s and big-screen TV’s

Before Run-DMC, before the Bee Gees

Before Star Wars, and movies turned 3-D

Before hip-hop turned into cosmic slop

Way before cocaine boiled into a crack rock

Long before the first victim of a gun got shot

Before any superstar ever reached the top

Everybody has had or now has

Someone that they can call «momma»

I say, everybody has had or now has

Someone that they can call «momma»

Can you dig that?

I got much love for sure

Mama, I wish I could do more

You gave me life from yours

And I appreciate my mama

So I dedicate

Much love for sure

Mama, I wish I could do more

You gave me life from yours

And I appreciate my mama

So I dedicate

This is dedicated, this is dedicated to you

Yeah yeah, yeah, this is dedicated to you

Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah

Can you dig that?