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