They say it started in the East where the was But out West we be them apples up They say them Town niggas gon' ride tonight They say them Tree Top niggas gon' tonight say them Grape Street niggas gon' ride tonight They say them Hunter niggas gon' ride tonight They say them 6-0 niggas ride tonight They say them Cedar Block niggas ride tonight Them 1-9-0 gon' ride tonight They say them niggas gon' ride tonight They say Campanella niggas gon' ride tonight Who gon' ride tonight, who gon' die Started a dollar and a dream Started a dollar and a dream
We did it for the West, motherfucker, Kanye get stretched out on [?] Got thousand stacks, I ain't talking 'bout Andre I put it on your head, I talking no toupee See I stayed the same, ain't go weird like Squeeze on his like ain't no more toothpaste (You ain't gon' do shit) Bitch, of I is You want money, you gon' have to drive the course I did I got that weight foundry, talking 'bout the out here You in the nosebleeds, come down to the cross-eyed is How a with a rojo rag end up in Soho Bag, any bitch with a solo swag You think you ballin' in that four do' Nah In Tom Fords a MK bag? nah Give you a bird's eye of the streets Nigga, welcome to Compton, you in Carson next week Ab-Soul!
Started with a dollar and a and a pistol On the rag hangin', slangin' crystal I said you gangbanging let me see And when I this gun out you know how this go with a dollar and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) Started a dollar and a dream!
I was by the bastards Pardon my The Curtiss magnet that without the metal with him How the I did it? I let God ad lib it I put that on Leetwood, I ain't one sentence Bitch, I started a dollar and a dream We went helping old ladies with their groceries at Alpha Beta For a couple to a baby hustling something major We had to grow up or later, but I'm so Del Amo, my still stay off Anna Lee Carson across my belly, I prove you already my big brother, Bishop let the door crack Game me on my first tour, now look where we at In the studio paid to reflect on that true facts Not to this the Documentary 2 too You do the addition in ballerina Enough with the clever raps, it's more than that I put my city on the map, Yeah, I put my city on the map I mean, when the last time you heard on the track, nigga? Let alone when they calling out grounds on the West I'll Yeah, that's what I thought, I'm the best, This the new West, nigga, respect Top Dawg, all I'm missing is the red hat But don't what pocket I had left, my handkerchief I'm guilty by affiliation, in ways gangsta But let me something, a paradox if you may I threw all my fresh Supreme Chuck Taylors And then I got a call from Taylor, I'm saying The ain't changed, we still changing the game Soul!
Started with a dollar and a and a pistol On the rag hangin', slangin' crystal I you gangbanging let me see credentials And when I this gun out you know how this go Started with a and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) Started a dollar and a dream!
My album was a set up I was the nigga Pac was talking to he said "keep your head up" Cause he knew what I would be facing his demise Jayceon had to pitch them pies, life than flipping fries I'm the one the despise Move the Yay or kiss the sky, for dreams that 50 died by Mary Blige Hopped up in that enterprise, had to stop a Went from to watching Top Dawg and Kendrick rise Now tell me can I testify, pull trying to rest for 5 On a block, no tint on the Wraith these kids mesmerized ask me how I did it, how I got it Say I'm you looking brolic I put them weights down start practicing exercise Tell me who the next to die, probably who the in line They got me babbling ghost I'm the illest one alive That's word to Pac, Pun, Biggie, why I as my city It's wise to run a train, you couldn't fuck me Ever since I saved my coast, been born again If I shit then who the king of California then? Who out-rap me? Now about if the same nigga you bout to say can run up and out-strap me, yeah me, yeah, out-gat me I think about it, exactly Speaking matter-of-factly I'm down that actually Call me Game I one still I get paid like an athlete Do the math the math, Doc two in the bag Lived up to expectations, Dre took me in the draft Now who the fuck what Nobody survives so look alive when them in the cut
Started with a dollar and a and a pistol On the corner rag hangin', slangin' I said you let me see credentials And I pull this gun out you know how this go Started with a and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) with a dollar and a dream!