They say it started in the East the apple was But out West we be them apples up say them Fruit Town niggas gon' ride tonight They say them Top niggas gon' ride tonight They say them Grape Street gon' ride tonight say them Bounty Hunter niggas gon' ride tonight They say them 6-0 niggas gon' tonight They say them Cedar Block gon' ride tonight Them niggas gon' ride tonight They say them Timberland gon' ride tonight They say them Campanella niggas ride tonight Who gon' ride tonight, who gon' die Started with a dollar and a Started with a dollar and a
We did it for the West, motherfucker, Kanye Niggas get out on [?] Got three thousand stacks, I talking 'bout Andre I put it on your head, I ain't talking no See I stayed the same, ain't go weird like Squeeze on his like ain't no more toothpaste (You gon' do shit) Bitch, of course I is You want this money, you gon' to drive the course I did I got that weight foundry, talking 'bout the out here You in the nosebleeds, come down to where the is How a with a rojo rag end up in Soho Bag, any walking with a solo swag You think you in that four do' Jag? Nah In Tom with a MK bag? nah Give you a bird's eye of the streets Nigga, welcome to Compton, you in Carson next week Ab-Soul!
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 this gun out you how this go Started a dollar and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) with a dollar and a dream!
I was fathered by the Pardon my The Curtiss that managed 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 with a dollar and a dream We from helping old ladies with their groceries at Alpha Beta For a couple quarters to a baby something major We had to up sooner or later, but I'm so Del Amo, my mama still off Anna Lee Carson across my belly, I prove you lost Roccett my big brother, let the door crack took me on my first tour, now look where we at In the studio getting to reflect on that Documenting true Not to mention the Documentary 2 too You do the in ballerina 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 last time you Carson on the track, nigga? Let alone when calling out stomping grounds on the West wait Yeah, what I thought, I'm the best, nigga This the new West, nigga, that Top Dawg, all I'm missing is the red hat But don't question what I had left, my handkerchief I'm guilty by affiliation, in ways gangsta But let me explain something, a if you may I threw all my fresh Supreme Chuck today And I got a call from Chuck Taylor, I'm saying The game ain't changed, we still the game Soul!
Started with a dollar and a dream and a On the corner rag hangin', slangin' I said you let me see credentials And when I pull this gun out you how this go with a dollar and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) with a dollar and a dream!
My album was a set up I was the little nigga Pac was to When he said "keep head up" Cause he knew I would be facing after 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 having dreams that 50 Eulogy by Mary Hopped up in that enterprise, had to a genocide Went underdog 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 left these kids ask me how I did it, how I got it Say I'm king you looking I put them down start practicing lyrical exercise Tell me who the next to die, probably who the next in got me babbling ghost cause I'm the illest one alive That's word to Pac, Pun, Biggie, why I stand as my It's to run a train, you couldn't fuck with me Ever since I my coast, it's been born again If I ain't shit then who the of California then? Who could me? Now think about if the same nigga you to say can run up and out-strap me, yeah me, yeah, out-gat me I mean think it, exactly Speaking matter-of-factly I'm down playing actually Call me Game I ain't one still I get 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 want what Nobody so look alive when them Impalas in the cut
Started with a dollar and a and a pistol On the corner rag hangin', crystal I said you let me see credentials And when I this gun out you know how this go with a dollar and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) with a dollar and a dream!