6 ContributorsDear Kai (Prison Tapes) Lyrics

[Intro]

Dear Kai, you know daddy love you right?

Look

[Verse 1]

Dear Kai, hope you don't think that the reason why I'm in here is cause I'm wildin'

Daddy, he just lost his trial and they got me for something violent

DA talkin' twenty two years, I couldn't even fuckin' tell you

It was way too hard to just be honest

Glass visits, told your mama not to bring you

For the first three months, I couldn't let you witness daddy at the bottom

You was only five, plus I brought you every single day to trial

Knew that deep down I was goin' in so I would fake a smile

Paparazzi flashin' at us, I know you don't understand

But you still my little man

Every single minute of that trial week, that I brought you out the court, the public said it's underhand

I really brought you cause I didn't know if I'd see you again

Mommy didn't know what to do, daddy was out on thе jail

Mommy started drinking more, but she hid it from you wеll

You miss daddy, I know why, I just see it in your eyes

All them little nights you cried, I can see it when you smile

It hurts me to death when I look at you and I see my eyes

I remember Christmas when I went in, I didn't have enough money to give you a life

Daddy felt so helpless on that day that he sat up inside his cell and all he did was cry

See daddy bank accounts was frozen and his accountants left him

So everybody that told him they hold him down went suicide

I had to call you on that phone and read you a poem cause I ain't had no dough to get you through the times

I just want you to know that you the reason why I keep on fighting these powerful people in these crucial times

Take care your mama, you my roller

Always know that I made you a soldier, now

[Chorus]

Hush little baby, don't you cry, everything's gonna be alright

Tell your mama you a soldier, that's what I told ya

And if she needs ya, then hold her through the night

I know daddy not there right now and you don't know why

Make you wonder when I'm coming back

But I promise I'll be back for my little soldier

I told ya, until I'm home boy I'm finna fight

[Verse 2]

I remember it was April 12th, county jail

Daddy, he just wasn't there

First birthday I ever missed

Daddy felt alone and felt like no one's there

So he shut himself down from the world and he ain't phoning in

I know that it only affected you, it was nothing fair

Mommy, she loved you so much, she started getting cleaned up

But when you had to stay with Ashley, I know that that seems sus

Even though your mama came with drama, she was always strong enough to hold you up just for the both of us

I wonder how you really feelin' lately Uncle Jay is crazy, ain't he?

But he loves you and he stays with you the days that I just can't be

Also understand that Rico is your lil' brother I need you both to keep each other's safety

Cause they gave daddy all these years

Promised that I'd make it home, till the day I make it there

Court case, ten years, aiin't no one can say it's fair

But that's how they play 'em cards

You know they don't play them fair

Daddy will be always there

And that's word to Rico too

Daddy will be always there I know that you'll be there too

All the shit I'm hearing about is dumb noise

I just wanna get home to my young boys

[Chorus]

Hush little baby, don't you cry, everything's gonna be alright

Tell your mama you a soldier, that's what I told ya

And if she needs ya, then hold her through the night

I know daddy not there right now and you don't know why

Make you wonder when I'm coming back

But I promise I'll be back for my little soldier

I told ya, until I'm home boy I'm finna fight