From a small ass tadpole swimmin in a fallopian tube To a on my soil, a stand up type a dude I was brought up in the crack game dealin and pushin stuff with my folkers cause we loved eachother so much Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, grippin the real tuff Strikin and them Novas and them Chevrolet stepside trucks Me and my Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Black Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and from the Magazine Street camp Posted up like thumbtacks, talking on faulty big 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 craps
You think you know, but you really have no idea to discography of E40, real talk for real Moons ago, way I even had a career I got my on the turf for drinking hecka beer And never letting the cats up in my hood pump fear Funkin my own soil, listen here Jealous cause we had all the broads and all the Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, sharper than a porcupine spine Don't gimme nothing, I'ma work for mine, try and grind, grit and Hot ones echo through the ghetto, funkin all the I thank the Lord for giving me the gift to spit rhyme
A loaf of bread, a of butter and some milk Around the corner the spot where all the dealers dealt and tribul-i-zations, me and my peopl-i-zations Tryin to get this music off the ground with 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 chubby like the checker, chunky like the A de- a decade and a half and still in the In you suckers didn't know, I told you once before I ain't rapping too fast, see just listening too slow I paved the way for the independent The industry mimick me, but don't wanna gimme mine