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 game dealin and pushin that stuff Arguing with my folkers we loved eachother so much Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, grippin the real tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and them Chevrolet trucks Me and my Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Black Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine Street camp Posted up thumbtacks, talking on faulty big backs Motorola, A1 yola, glad bag fulla Tic In the mean time, in between time, in my spare time raps In the yard, in the driveway, on the concrete shootin craps
You you know, but you really don't have no idea Listen to discography of E40, talk for real ago, way before I even had a career I got my nickname on the for drinking hecka beer And letting the older cats up in my hood pump fear with my own soil, listen here Jealous cause we had all the broads and all the Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game than a porcupine spine Don't gimme nothing, I'ma for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot echo through the ghetto, funkin all the time I thank the Lord for me the gift to spit this rhyme
A loaf of bread, a stick of butter and some 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 with high ass a little time and patience, a little faith in God To make a long story short, at me now sahob I'm doing it like the checker, chunky like the soup A de- a and a half and still in the loop In case you didn't know, I told you once before I ain't rapping too fast, see y'all listening too slow I paved the way for the independent The industry they me, but don't wanna gimme mine