
Eddie Murphy's baby mother Scary Spice and her New Man.
This whole situation is turning into a circus, but It gave me a thought of how I was as a child growing up w/o a father and gave me this lovely memory. I hope you enjoy.
Music is my Life Vol 1. Daddy Where have you been?
Child: Daddy, Where Have You Been?
Beanie: And when you come home, you got us here all alone
Child: Mommy, Where Daddy Went?
Beanie: You always stick up for him
Always said you'd make up for him
Child: Mommy, What Happened Then?
Beanie: What was you cheatin on him?
Why he's always beatin' on you?
Child: Daddy, Where Have You Been?
Beanie: Nigga, you gonna hear me out
It was a night hanging out W/ Ms. Black's brother when I first heard this song, we were sitting in the living room doing what we did every weekend, getting wasted. The kind of wasted were everything that make sense normally, makes sense to the tenth power. Hold on let me light a cigarette for this one, allow me to share my soul. I heard that song and i started crying uncontrollably. This song was my life put to a beat, packaged and sold to the masses. Killing me softly w/ his words, Beanie Sigel was rapping my entire relationship w/ my Mom and pops into 16 bars. At this point in my life I was at a crossroads, I had just moved back to Jersey from Atlanta, a Newborn baby, no job, and the biggest choice in my life to make...
Leave my dream behind and provide for my child, at first I was reluctant to stop following my dream of being a rapper, I mean i was damn good, I had meeting w/ everyone from Teddy Riley, Lil Kim, and the top execs at Universal Records, My Braids were down to my back, My Shape up stay'd fresh, i still had about 3 pair of uptowns that looked like new, and I had a closet full of Authentic jersey's that the players themselves didn't even have anymore, you would have sworn my name was Mitchell & Ness. But the decision was an easy one, I was just being hard headed b/c becoming a rapper could be the answers to all of my problems but there was one thing missing, Time. See I not only had a newborn baby in the crib I had another on the way. I remember it like it was yesterday, I was on the sofa drinking my drink doing what i did laughing at the times we shared in the studio, what this person said, and all the crazy shit i did at Rutgers when Sigel touched my soul through the speakers and said:
Beanie Sigel:hey dad, yeah it's your boy
remember me? I wanna talk to you scrap
I remember being kicked out the house
'cause I looked just like you...
But dog I can't see it at all, shit
We never kicked it at all
We never pitched or kicked at a ball
dog, you never taught me shit
how to fight, ride a bike, fix a flat
none of that sorts of shit
Nigga you was an abusive pops
fuck you left me out to dry, stuck
See my dad did every bad thing to my moms you can think of, those was his exact words to me. "I did every bad thing to your moms you can think of, you name it I did it." See at that time I was trying to make amends for 24 years of being left to fend for myself. That was also the first time my dad, my brother and myself were ever in the same room at the same time. Growing up there was no Child Support, There was one weekend visit, where I came down for breakfast, well not breakfast more like a bowl of Cookie Crisp we bought from the Bodega the night before, when I saw my Dad Beating up on his girlfriend, the girlfriend my moms call kissing cousins, I never asked her about it but he told me that too. It's funny the stories you can get out of a person over a box of Newports and some of the cheapest Brandy money could buy. But he beat her down to the floor and called her some of the worst names you can think of, I walked upstairs and got back in the bed and pretended to be sleep, about 20 minutes later he came upstairs I cried my eyes out, my mother was at his door to get me 5 minutes later. I sat in the back of the car w/ my GI JOE's my mother had got me for my birthday. His card filled w/ 10 bucks on the car seat next to me, I would give to my mother for gas, I didn't want his money.
Jay-Z:You said that you was comin through
I would stay in the hallway (waitin)
always playin the bench (waitin)
and that day came and went
Fuck You! very much you showed me the worst kind of pain
That was the last time I saw my dad for years, I mean it wasn't like he lived in another Country, another state, or even another city. No he lived a block over, the next block up and across the street from our 2 bedroom apt over top of Jimmy's Hand Car Wash in Elizabeth, NJ. This put so much aggression inside of my soul, both good and bad, Good b/c it made me strive to be the best for my mother, but it also made me distant to the world. I would sit in my room, the room I shared w/ my sister, her boyfriend, and her daughter, w/ the door shut, and if anybody ever came in i would leave the room until they left. It became my room, my safe box from the world, Until i met Lateef, who introduced me to the streets but that's a different story. But all this anger and Thursday night episodes of the Cosby Show, made me want to be Cliff Huxtable for my children when I had some, so like I said earlier the choice was an easy one, give up my dream, take care of my kid and get a job. No one ever told me life isn't as easy as prime time TV. Relationships fail, plan don't work how they pose to, and Love don't love Nobody.
yeah you gave us life like, fruit from a plant
we aint eat right from them foods from them stamps
All in All my mother did a great job raising me, I was in gifted and talented, labeled a child genius, my mind was built for art, no one showed me how to do anything, my moms never checked my homework, just made sure I passed my classes which i always did. Not much you can teach a child w/ a 7th grade education. But we did it, my moms made it out the projects, slowly but made it out, bought a house, literally had to break her back to do it (she got hit by a van and a building collapse on her no lie) But it's these kind of stories that make females think, it's okay to raise a child on their own. It's these sort of stories that make it that much easier for women to walk away from a man. Shit, I want to be there 24/7 for my babies but things happen, feelings change, and a female can give 2 shits about what their baby's daddy wants to do. That's one thing about my baby mother is that she gave me a hell of a lot of chances to try to work things out, and I love her to death for that. Far better than my 2nd who told me to my face I was just a sperm donor and I served my purpose. So ladies before you go meeting all types of men, going on dates just be careful.