They say it in the East where the apple was But out West we be throwing them up say them Fruit Town niggas gon' ride tonight They say them Top niggas gon' ride tonight say them Grape Street niggas gon' ride tonight They say them Bounty Hunter gon' ride tonight They say them 6-0 niggas ride tonight They say them Cedar Block gon' ride tonight Them niggas gon' ride tonight They say them niggas gon' ride tonight They say them 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, like get stretched out on [?] Got three thousand stacks, I ain't 'bout Andre I put it on your head, I ain't talking no See I the same, ain't go weird like Lupe Squeeze on his trigger ain't no more toothpaste (You ain't do shit) Bitch, of course I is You want money, you gon' have to drive the course I did I got weight foundry, talking 'bout the Porsche out here You in the nosebleeds, down to where the cross-eyed is How a nigga with a rag end up in Soho Bag, any bitch walking with a solo You think you ballin' in four do' Jag? Nah In Tom Fords with a MK nah Give you a bird's eye of the streets Nigga, welcome to Compton, take you in Carson week Ab-Soul!
with a dollar and a dream and a pistol On the corner rag hangin', slangin' I you gangbanging let me see credentials And when I pull gun out you know how this go Started with a and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) Started with a 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 lying one sentence Bitch, I started with a and a dream We went from old ladies with their groceries at Alpha Beta For a couple quarters to a baby hustling something We had to up sooner or later, but I'm so Del Amo, my mama stay off Anna Lee Carson my belly, I prove you lost already Roccett my big brother, Bishop let the door took me on my first tour, now look where we at In the getting paid to reflect on that Documenting facts Not to mention the Documentary 2 too You do the addition in shoes Enough the clever raps, it's more important than that I put my on the map, nigga Yeah, I really put my on the map I mean, when the last time you heard Carson on the track, Let alone when they calling out stomping grounds on the I'll Yeah, that's I thought, I'm the best, nigga the new West, nigga, respect that It's Top Dawg, all I'm is the red hat But don't question what pocket I had left, my I'm guilty by affiliation, in many gangsta But let me something, a paradox if you may I threw all my fresh Supreme Chuck today And then I got a call Chuck Taylor, I'm saying The game ain't changed, we changing the game Soul!
with a dollar and a dream and a pistol On the rag hangin', slangin' crystal I said you let me see credentials And when I pull this gun out you know how go Started a dollar and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) Started a dollar and a dream!
My first 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 had to pitch them pies, better life than flipping fries I'm the one the despise Move the Yay or kiss the sky, for having dreams 50 died Eulogy by Blige Hopped up in that enterprise, had to stop a Went underdog to watching Top Dawg and Kendrick rise Now me can I testify, pull over trying to rest for 5 On a block, no tint on the Wraith left kids mesmerized ask me how I did it, how I got it Say I'm king you brolic I put them weights down practicing lyrical exercise Tell me who the to die, probably who the next in line They got me ghost cause I'm the illest one alive word to Pac, Pun, Biggie, why I stand as my city It's wise to run a train, you fuck with me Ever since I saved my coast, it's born again If I ain't shit who the king of California then? Who could me? Now think about if the same nigga you to say can run up and out-strap me, yeah Out-trap me, yeah, me I mean about it, exactly Speaking matter-of-factly I'm playing that actually Call me Game I ain't one still I get paid an athlete Do the math the math, Doc two in the bag up to expectations, Dre took me first in the draft Now who the want what Nobody survives so look alive them Impalas in the cut
with a dollar and a dream and a pistol On the corner rag hangin', crystal I said you let me see credentials And when I pull gun out you know how this go Started a dollar and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) with a dollar and a dream!