they say what don t break you will make you my mum used to say if you don t hear then you must feel this one just goes out to all those who helped me get here and those who were helping me get there from the waters burst nurse wasn t sure at first told mum prepare for the worst she s headed for a premature birth pops stared at his wife with tears in his eyes she s near to sparing her life prepare for the cesarean knife they had to open her up she did it that s why i m here to show her what s up don t get it twisted at all i know i didn t always listen at all but i seen how you given your all and i hope it s all been worth it cause you know me i wasn t the easiest child to work with i know that i was far from perfect sometimes you spoke a language of love i found hard to interpret but i understand now i m grown a man can stand on his own a man s land is his home when a man s fam is his throne and a real man will handle his own i learned that from your words and the example you shown mum you flown home to jamaica now i pray this debut album will make you proud dad you wasn t always around to raise your child but i m grateful how you still gave a great amount i seen my fair share of rough living still i gotta give thanks for my upbringing cause what life could of been i will never know but god works all things together for my better so if you see me on the ends doing fine just know i coulda been up in the pen doing time though you might see my countenance shine know i still got mountains to climb but thank god that his word is faithful for this i m eternally grateful now i see it s not just where the journey takes you it s the man that the journey makes you i wasn t raised in the church i was raised on street life and i seen the ways that it works i m no stranger to pains and hurts tried to escape the curse by blazing the herbs but i found out the cycle get high then get low keeps going round like vinyl and it s going on a downward spiral couldn t find a way out till i found the bible shout to simon for being a witness meeting me at my crib and just reading me scriptures and that s the reason i writ this just wanna say bless to all my brothers and peace to my sisters cause without these people i wouldn t be here gotta give a shout to the people who couldn t be here like my cousin carl and my boy ashley mike griffis aunt sharon and lil alfy to my grandfather and my girl marsha young or old they made such early departures it s hard to express but you passed and the death told me to value the time i got left it s such a valuable blessing getting practical lessons at calvary chapel from robert patrick and efrem in fact big thanks to all of my pastors wayne malcolm john francis thanks to dennis shout to noel and sharon for loving me when some loved only my talent much love to the mandem in greenjade without them i probably would of never have been saved at times man i thought i would never see change but thanks to my wife nadine cause she prayed and the names go on and on i got a list way too long to say in this song but i gotta stand and pay respect to the fam that made me the man i am today truthfully i m just fruit from the true vine was blind but now the dude can see i m not saying that the truth is me i m just saying i m grateful cause i ain t what i used to be1