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Don't You Cry (My Baby)

from Cries Of A Rose: The Hood's Tragedy by K.A.

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Steve (Voiceover #1): Here we go, come on!
Guy (Intro): This is a story about…a young man growing up in the hood…tried to do everything he could…just wanted to leave for good…
Roy (Adlibs): I just want my…Oh…
Chorus [2x]: I just want my daddy/Don’t know why I love you/Wonder why you had me/Every day’s a struggle!
Verse 1: Never knew my daddy so I never had a route/Never had a male to teach me what this life’s about/Never had a guarantee instead been filled with doubt/Pouring out potential now my rose just couldn’t sprout/Never had a furnace working well to heat the home/Only heater burning is when I pack the chrome/Now we sliding through the hood just to heat your home/Leave you leaking out the skull once we burn your dome/Crib feel like a freezer so I’m tucked beneath the sheets/Cold just like the winter in the car upon your seat/Can’t heat up my dinner when it’s time for me to eat/Now I’m out here praying for survival in the streets
Chorus [2x]: I just want my daddy/Don’t know why I love you/Wonder why you had me/Every day’s a struggle!/ I just want my daddy/Don’t know why I love you/Wonder why you had me, yeah!
Ad-Libs: Oohs & Hums
Pre-Verse: …Every day’s a struggle! So I gotta hustle!
Verse 2: Hands behind my head just as if I’m with the cops/You can say I’m torn cause I’ve never met my pops/Planted seeds to harvest but he never met the crops/Reaper’s bout to cut me and with that my pulse could drop
Chorus [1x] ]: I just want my daddy/Don’t know why I love you/Wonder why you had me/Every day’s a struggle!
Verse 3: Now I’m serving on the block/Gotta do my dirt/Keeping rocks up in my pocket/Gotta go to work/Administering the relief as if I was the clerk/Baby girl is now my world/I lead like Captain Kirk/All I ever really wanted was for me to fly/Dreaming in America is nothing but a lie/All this pain within me so I think I’m gonna cry/Phantom car rolls up on me I think I’m bout to die, oh my!
Bridge (Myles): Lift up my hands to the great big sky/Told the man upstairs that it’s been a while/Then I heard back a great reply/Don’t you cry my child, don’t you cry!
Guy (Outro): Another Black man lost to the violence of the streets…My brothers…let’s stop killing each other…please!
Female News Reporter: Earlier this evening in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, Richard Parks, a twenty-year old African American man was gunned down in what is projected to be a retaliation of gun violence. Richard is survived by his daughter and mother, who has lost yet another child in the matter of eight months… [Voice Fades]
Myles (Outro): Don’t you cry…don’t you cry…don’t you cry my baby…

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from Cries Of A Rose: The Hood's Tragedy, released October 19, 2021
Written, Produced, Mixed & Recorded by Kevin Anglade at Castlewood’s Studio
Background vocals by Myles Petillo
Additional vocals by Harley Dee, Keion Staton & Steven Scott

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K.A. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Kevin Anglade (K.A.) in addition to being a rapper, is a singer, songwriter, and producer from Queens, New York. After falling in love with music and freestyling as a kid, he honed his pen game over the years and complimented it with his tenor register to become a Hip-Hop/R&B hybrid. Kevin is a self-produced artist whose debut album, Cries Of A Rose is available now via FCS Recordings. ... more

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