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Well yo, they used to say that was a motherfuckin bum Cos it came to profit, son I really wasn't gettin none The wildest motherfucker you ever saw They used to call me Petey Wheezthrow, the devil's Now I'm in the shit, like a fly I was From robbing to stealin to dealin, yo, and even Sellin cocaine in the high halls Playin it slick I the balms up in some tennis balls I used to run across the with my peeps I packed a tray-8, in dem days I was playin for I used to around my hat and all day Lookin for a prey that we could rob on Stickin niggas for their if they're worthy
Made a of hits and then we jetted back to Jersey '86 And '87 was the Had the Gucci hat, rock the raccoon fur coat Keep em in and nigga don't ya blink See yeah Saturday, we robbed another at the rink The beats was showin up at my rest Askin "Does a certain Drayzie live at this Yes?" The was hotter than the sun, without a doubt I had the choice to go to school and get the out I hit the South just like a bandit cos I was Virginia in '88, you know that's where I landed I couldn't it, shit was feelin strange I made it outta range but yo, my was just about the dough
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Yo bust a move, the flav Cos I'm a take you to the days of brown envelope trays Twenty-something years ago as I proceed to A newborn shorty had to cheques off Bushwick Bless the days, Pops shot to get forth the and Damn, fam got to From the flo' down four flights to the sixth This was around the time smokin was the shit But now the crib a bigger I was the first man in the fam so it's plans for a Had my clan my building and my man from 8-11 Wit me when we hit the jams 2-57 Mom's babysittin, on the hustle 54 Block was on lock, a knuckle
Game rip, some slipped and got greedy me, another "rest in peace" in graffiti But I couldn't resist a few fights and petty Cos now I'm 'cross in the Heights My nights are a little quieter but amongst the schemes for the fun Where sons run and blow slums with the bums And don't care I love the street game so I the green leaf by the air You couldn't tell me shit, evil was eager than a beaver it fresh, double-parked in the Caesar But I got deceased with behavior-type flavor And do Moms a favor, go to school and get fuckin paper So the caper cos now I'm all in At Virginia State, now let the begin
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It was '89 and yo, I'm out of fights I'm runnin with this nigga named Books Crown Heights Gettin toe-up from the flow-up, we're til we throw up We're thinkin we can blow up so to class we wouldn't up Well nigga so what? You fucked the holdup and whatever's Then bucked the leathers, son I got to get my shit Gettin drunk, gettin flunked in class is what's the Smokin blunts-in, son we to stop frontin We're goin huntin, Virginia didn't shit for us That's why we broke out with Dice and blitzed blue chorus Gettin busy, rhymes on the weekend The deal we was seekin from styles we was
But yo, now it's '91 and me and son we got to (Aiyo it was a rap contest, we couldn't handle) And yo, something got ta or I'm a get the pappin We got the blueprints to this new style of Packin from the sewer, I knew we had a shot Gotta go and the spot and show them niggas how we rock, what? If PMD is judgin it, yeah the cautious Makin all that on that business as usual (Tip tip tip) Tip, we the tongue and started wilin They hit us with the digits to the cribs in Island So, we packed the Henny and my men we got And never back, that's how we thinkin nowadays
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