A RAP SONG

Marcus and Jayden are troubled teenagers. Sometimes, emotional injuries hurt so much that you cannot talk about them. That’s why Marcus and Jayden use other artistic expressions to express their feelings. Jayden uses art and writing. Marcus uses music and rap. Click on this link and listen to the song. Then read the statement in the box and choose which five ideas are expressed in the song. https://youtu.be/Mftc6GS1CWw

So You Know What It's like- Keith Stanfield

It don't matter now damn near eighteen.
All the pretty pictures in my fucking head is faded.
And when I think about that trick that raised me,
I think about sick cause the bitch is crazy.
Fuck that bitch, nigga, fuck that pain
your body's in a ditch inside this turned up brain.
I mean, I can’t see how you claim it, you being ma?
Doctors snatched me out of the snatch of pure evil with eagle claws.
Ho, ho, ho, slut, fuck the way you want it.
Got your young, dumb son pitching pigeons for money.
I mean, it’s colder than the bitch when it’s sunny.
Blows raining down on the glow.
Got the nerve to tell me you love me?
I said, again? Again? Sell it again?
Bitch,I'm ten, let me go outside and function with friends.
You say you ma? Your mother?
You’re the father-fucking queen?
I say, all right, I love her so I flip it again.
No, not this time, bitch, because I’m stronger than you.
Not this time bitch, swinging harder than you.
No, not this time, bitch, you ain’t leave me a choice
You just a body in a ditch in the brain of a boy.
All fucked up now, damn near 18.
All the pictures in my past ain’t never fading.
I’m always wishing for something amazing
But when your life is shit then it ain’t no trading.
So put me in your book so you know what it’s like
To live a life not knowing what a normal life’s like.
Put a label on my head so you know what it’s like
To live a life not knowing what a normal life’s like.
Look into my eyes so you know what it’s like
Look into my eyes so you know what it’s like
Look into my eyes so you know what it’s like
To live a life not knowing what a normal life’s like.
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I have terrible memories of my childhood.
Neither me nor my brothers were happy.
My mother used to hit me.
Doctors helped my mother when she was dying.
I couldn’t go out to play with my friends.
Life on drugs was a nightmare.
Don’t say you love me, mum. That’s not true.
I won’t forgive my dad for not helping us
Don’t try to help me, just accept what I really am.
I am an adult now and all my problems are gone.
I have never had a normal life.