From a small ass little tadpole in a fallopian tube To a fixture on my soil, a stand up type a I was brought up in the crack game dealin and pushin that Arguing with my folkers cause we eachother so much Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and them Chevrolet stepside Me and my brother Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Little Ray, Billy, and and them from the Magazine Street camp Posted up thumbtacks, talking on faulty big backs Motorola, A1 yola, bag fulla Tic Tacs In the mean time, in between time, in my spare writin raps In the front yard, in the driveway, on the concrete shootin
You you know, but you really don't have no idea Listen to of E40, real talk for real Moons ago, way before I even had a I got my on the turf for drinking hecka beer And never letting the older up in my hood pump fear Funkin my own soil, listen here Jealous we had all the broads and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game sharper than a spine Don't gimme nothing, work for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot ones through the ghetto, funkin all the time I thank the Lord for giving me the gift to spit this
A loaf of bread, a stick of and some milk Around the corner from the spot all the dealers dealt Trials and tribul-i-zations, me and my Tryin to get this music off the ground high ass expectations Took a little time and patience, a faith in God To make a long story short, look at me now I'm doing it like the checker, chunky like the soup A de- a decade and a and still in the loop In case you suckers didn't know, I you once before I ain't too fast, see y'all just listening too slow I paved the way for the grind The they mimick me, but don't wanna gimme mine