MUTHA life is a motha/ neva like anothers/maybe same situations but nothin like yours/thinkin shit cool walkin out the door/return n someone else took ya place/ that's a motha/i grew up in the slums, always mad, but my motha gave what she had/ did everything for us/ neva put nuthin above us/ now who gone help her out, thas a motha/i'm only a child, tryn to run wild, not willin to be proud and grateful for what she did/thas a motha/cuz she didn't beat us that much, n treat us unloved, she gave her life to her kids/what a mother/ worked her bones down to the grissle/had enouf tears to dissolve the tissue/but neva worried us about different issues/ doin someone else's laundry to make ends meat/ symbolized from all the calus' on her feet/what a motha/(pause) (she didn't have no man to take care of what she built, sometimes she felt so bad she was always broke not rich)/ but she a motha so survivin is all she can do/ neva had a stable place, jus put out to move/we need a motha so she didn't give up on li