[ 1: Eightball ] Eightball the Fat Mac express While a nigga's gettin zooted from the sess Lookin back, damn, I was as a juvenile Mama showed and she struggled for her only child But like my dad I was in the streets I never to work hard, cause that shit ain't for me then only 16, ignorant and curious Mom's gettin periods cause I serious I said fuck teachers and the church preachers I wanted to with my niggas with the street sweepers in the days sellin herbs on the [Name] Me and doin city-wide talent shows Gettin dissed, gettin pissed cause of this Cause it's so hard in this muthafuckin I said many times, "Mama, make you proud" But I could never the thug life of Orange Mound I'm on the corner drinkin Thunderbird, slingin They in my hands cause the cops 'bout the matchbox But I can't sell dope, is the way, gee And this is just day around the homies
[ 2: MJG ] ..mid day, I was deep a sleep Unconscious from that hay that they distribute on em My world was spinnin from the Rmy that was in me And we ain't half-stepped on them blunts, we up plenty A penny to be earned in a day is I'm looking for Hopin for, some kind of way to a little more ducats Fuck it, that I just needed, I just stuck it Up, hell, nigga as well Proceed to hustle like a MJ G The nigga with the muthafuckin clout, no The pimps is in the muthafuckin Be up out [Name], folk is takin over You know how I know? Gimme the mic and I ya I ya, I reach ya with this pimpalistic knowledge The shit a nigga learned in Break-A-Bitch College Started, to at the age of 11 Started makin money when a turned 12 to induldge at the age of 13 At 14 a nigga flatfoot was hell In the hood
[ 3: Eightball ] So many rappers in this industry, I doubt That a bunch of niggas broke with a CD out It ain't new to me, me and MJG Had to struggle just to down in Tennessee In Memphis, tryin to be a But rappin don't mean shit to Elvis Presley-lovin Plus I'm with a record label me and fuckin me Niggas always promsisin me shit that I never see Trick-buster talkin 'bout we family But while I was rappin he was snortin up my So I got smart, hit the streets and fuck that That's when this nigga named T Money heard our track Pack em up, move em out, straight down to Me and JG drop-top Lexus "Coming Out Hard" on the in the 'Billboard' album droppin and we waitin on our first award Niggas talkin the crew ain't walkin no mo' Them jealous busters tryin to start over hoes I know what is worse, livin bad or livin good But the world remind me of my neighborhood
[ 4: MJG ] See, I'm a self-made hustler, the Niggas who think that two are better than one And to get the job done, son MJG gots game in the sale That me get lifts in the studio though it was kind of hard as far as I can see Growin up in the Orange Mound Tennessee Could it be the future had for a nigga who Struggled through all of shit for a bill or two? Still I do shows for my cause my fans buy my tapes And the make my g's and the g's keeps me straight And I hate when the busters all in my face like a hoe And shit in the down low out, punk, mutha-fucka, sucka, niggas My finger's gettin of the trigger, dig a Grave, shit, cause I don't want his boys to have to With the smell of the I just killed ???? if you can't with the stress, best Wipe the big 'S' off muthafuckin chest Press issues, sure they fully understood 'bout a young nigga in the muthafuckin hood