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Track of the Week: Chali 2na “Righteous Way” by Hip-Hop Linguistics This week’s track of the week is Chali 2na’s Righteous Way, from his new album “Fish Outta Water.” It was hard to pick out just one track to feature from this album, but I chose this because it was one of a couple very personalized lyrical songs. Righteous Way is basically about parenthood, and contains three dope verses dedicated to 2na’s father, mother and son. Click below to listen to Chali 2na’s Righteous Way: [See post to listen to audio] And be sure to follow along with the lyrics after the break.  [Chorus] The righteous way to go/ Little one would know/ Or believe if I told him so/ The righteous way to go/ Little one would know/ Or believe if I told him so/ [Verse 1] Through fights with mom/ And long nights you’re gone/ Through all types of wrong/ I love my pops/ Through penitentiary/ Drug addiction and misery/ You defeated the enemy/ I love my pops/ Twenty some odd years/ Wiping my little sister’s tears/ She missed dad, but where was my pops?/ To proud to tell us he was running from his demons/ And we’re thinking that nothing could ever budge my pops/ But I used to wonder/ What put my moms under/ My pops and kept ‘em together for seventeen summers/ I reminisce in my mind/ Me and my pops would find/ The time we spent it never seemed funner/ But I remember the day that he left/ Him and my mama they never nurtured their relationship/ And it went from Bonnie and Clyde/ To problems with money and pride/ Together they couldn’t decide/ [Chorus] The righteous way to go/ Little one would know/ Or believe if I told him so/ The righteous way to go/ Little one would know/ Or believe if I told him so/ [Verse 2] Through parental separation/ And miscommunication/ I love my mama more than I love myself/ Along with grandmamma they played my two parents/ So you know I love them more than I love myself/ In and out of prison for stealing/ Illegally making a living/ But she taught me how to love myself/ Pops wasn’t there to teach me ‘bout the man inside/ I had to learn who he was myself/ I was the man of the house/ So my younger siblings looked up to me as the father that they never had/ Resentful of the fact/ My sister would talk smack/ And call him sperm donor, but never call him dad/ It’s sad I know it gets lonely for my only brother/ ‘Cause him and his father never really got to know each other/ And those days I vowed for sure/ If I ever had a child I would chose/ [Chorus] The righteous way to go/ Little one would know/ Or believe if I told him so/ The righteous way to go/ Little one would know/ Or believe if I told him so/ [Verse 3] I became a parent at the age of twenty-one/ With no doubts or questions/ ‘Cause I love my son/ I fell for a woman same name as my mama/ Maintained heavy drama/ But I love my son/ Eleven years of love, lies and fears/ Closed our eyes and ears/ But because my son/ Had nothing to do with the reason we would fight for days/ We kept it together to raise my son/ In the beginning we would ditch school to see each other/ She quit school and ran away so we could be together/ Before I got paid for working my tongue/ The greatest moment that we shared was the birth of our son/ Another eight years passed til the day that I left/ And why’s that? We never nurtured our relationship/ And it went bust and die/ ‘Cause of problems with trust and pride/ Together we couldn’t decide/ [Chorus] The righteous way to go/ Little one would know/ Or believe if I told him so/ The righteous way to go/ Little one would know/ Or believe if I told him so Read full story