[intro: news reporter]
It was september 7th
When little tiana ricks was walking into a family party
With her dad. tiana lived in long beach
With her mother. john this is a very sad story
We do know detectives
The little girl and her father had come to this house
For a college send off. the 6 year old
Would have been dancing with her relatives
At a get together saturday night
But suspected gang member
Suddenly somebody drove by
And opened fire on the home of

[verse 1]
This ain't ever been my birth wishes
You know the struggle got the worst wishes
The homie had a wife until my nigga got to striking
And they wonder why I curve bitches
They tryna say I think wrong
If I don't make a hit, I ain't gon' never leave home
The homie got killed, it seems like everything gone
The cycle ain't broken, we forever need [?]
I'm tryna read on, this ain't just my story
I'm tryna let 'em know your plot too
I see a nigga kill a nigga but it's sick
How we be trippin' when the cops do
Like don't that seem backwards
Words never written in these unseen chapter
Mappin' out the plan and ain't never seen an atlas
Staying free my mind, knowing damn well we captured
It's all bad, stuck up in a heat, like everybody gotta vent
Wait, no, no really wait I mean the weight
That's on your shoulders
Give you strength
Started from the bricks, mama couldn't pay the rent
Don't tell me bout a daddy, man that nigga full of shit
This god damn baggage, like nigga you a trip
Could tell you foul by the scent, that's all bad

[hook]
Another nigga caught a murder
And that ain't never unheard of
I keep reaching for the clouds
And they just keep moving further
And further and further
They told me not to fail
And I just tell 'em I heard ya, I heard ya
I keep reaching for the clouds
And they just keep moving further
And further and further
I keep reaching for the clouds
And they just keep moving further

[interlude]
He also has been [?] with the death of the mother
I'd like to see what the guy looks like
Good morning steve, good morning everyone
We're getting our first look at the suspect
Bet he's a gang member
Go straight to that picture
Just sent to us by the sherrif's department
You won the bet because he is a gang member

[verse 2]
Just the other day, I was talking to my nigga
'bout his cousin
And he was telling me how they from different hoods
But at the end of the day still love him
But it's fuck him, can't trust him
The nigga still a enemy, they was damn close
See, back in elementary
It's taking all my energy to try to state the enemy
Cause niggas out here frontin'
Like the nigga they pretend to be
That shit weak
I was chilling with my kid
Some dude banged on a nigga tryna front
On one hand I'm scared for my kid life
Other hand show him he can't be no punk
That when my mind start jetting
Pride start setting, eyes start sweating
I gotta get with it 'fore the lie start stretching
You know words don't matter, that's life's hard lesson

[hook]
Another nigga caught a murder
And that ain't never unheard of
I keep reaching for the clouds
And they just keep moving further
And further and further
They told me not to fail
And I just tell 'em I heard ya, I heard ya
I keep reaching for the clouds
And they just keep moving further
And further and further
I'm reaching for the clouds
And they just keep moving further

[outro: news reporter]
Hasn't given out a motive
As if there could be any rhyme or reason
Tiana didn't stand a chance
The bullet going right through her
And then hitting her father
We're told her last words were
Well she was asking if her daddy
If her daddy was okay