[ 1: Eightball ] Eightball the Fat Mac must While a gettin zooted from the potent-ass sess Lookin back, damn, I was as a juvenile Mama showed love and she struggled for her only But my dad I was stuck in the streets I never wanted to work hard, cause that ain't for me Back then only 16, ignorant and Mom's gettin periods cause I serious I said fuck school teachers and the church I wanted to with my niggas with the street sweepers Back in the days sellin herbs on the Me and Squeaky doin city-wide shows Gettin dissed, gettin pissed cause of this Cause so hard in this muthafuckin business I said times, "Mama, I'ma make you proud" But I could never leave the thug life of Mound I'm on the corner drinkin Thunderbird, slingin They in my hands cause the cops know the matchbox But I can't dope, rappin is the way, gee And this is just day around the homies
[ 2: MJG ] ..mid day, I was into a sleep Unconscious that hay that they distribute on em streets My world was constantly spinnin from the Rmy was in me And we ain't half-stepped on them blunts, we chiefed up 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 might as Proceed to like a p-i-m-p MJ G The nigga with the clout, no doubt The pimps is in the house Be up out [Name], folk is takin over You know how I know? the mic and I show ya I teach ya, I reach ya with this knowledge The shit a nigga back in Break-A-Bitch College Started, to at the age of 11 Started makin when a nigga turned 12 Started to at the age of 13 At 14 a nigga flatfoot was raisin In the muthafuckin
[ VERSE 3: ] So rappers in this industry, I don't doubt it's a bunch of niggas broke with a CD out It ain't new to me, me and MJG Had to struggle to hustle down in Tennessee In Memphis, to be a rapper But rappin don't mean shit to Presley-lovin crackers Plus I'm with a record label gankin me and me Niggas always promsisin me shit I will never see Trick-buster always talkin we family But while I was rappin he was snortin up my So I got smart, hit the streets and said fuck when this nigga named T Money heard our first track Pack em up, move em out, down to Texas Me and JG drop-top Lexus "Coming Out Hard" on the charts in the Second droppin and we waitin on our first award Niggas cause the crew ain't walkin no mo' jealous busters tryin to start shit over hoes I know what is worse, livin bad or livin good But the whole world me of my neighborhood
[ 4: MJG ] See, I'm a self-made hustler, the Niggas who think that two heads are better one And to get the job done, son MJG game in the street sale makes me get lifts in the studio Even though it was kind of as far as I can see up in the Orange Mound Tennessee community Could it be the future had love for a 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 tapes make my g's and the g's keeps me 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 trick I killed ???? if you can't hang the stress, best the big 'S' off your muthafuckin chest Press issues, makin sure they fully a young nigga life in the muthafuckin hood