It ain't clean in streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay attention when coming around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in streets up, hats down, fiends in these streets So please pay attention when you're around 'Cause the got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
I'm still back for the first time So grab a hold of your seats while I your mind And take you to when I dropped down from heaven And I out my moms and had a mic as my fucking weapon When I was three I was a little G But if you looked in my eyes see the future of a real MC And at the age of nine I wrote my rhyme rapping became one of my favorite pastimes Every where I went spitting and babbling Showing my ass, growing up started traveling From one to the next, Luda landed in the ATL Where the pimps and the players I made a tape, did and got exposure And kept as my black ass got older No matter I just kept at my trade I made mistakes but stayed sharper a Ginsu blade
It ain't in these streets, it's mean in these streets up, hats down, fiends in these streets So please pay attention when coming around 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
It clean in these streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in these So please pay attention when you're coming 'Cause the got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
Age fourteen, my talent a beast outta cage I would of won but disqualified for jumping off But I ain't care, cause this has started to open it's arms When I was at Banneker School pulling fire alarms So I get a crowd around me, make a name for my block People told me "keep flowing," they ain't me to stop Was when Big Nose John was my human beat box We'd skip school, hit open and watch out for street cops Now I'm known around the town as that nigga that From the that made high to them G roll traps And I was still demo's, perfecting the craft And some said I wouldn't it, they would giggle and laugh So I picked up a couple books by Donald Bout the of this shit, how to flip a few coins Before the age of eighteen, I was to make it My bank account read The Peace, incorporated
It ain't clean in streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, down, fiends in these streets So please pay attention when coming around the block got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay attention you're coming around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
Age eighteen, I'm strugglin', to survive But got a gig for change at 97.5 Now I'm rapping on the radio, increasing their Still Ludacris but alias was Cris Luva Late nights I'm in studio and using they tools Me and Puma smoking and breaking all of their rules And I was krunk, all the big wigs was my songs But nobody did shit and was taking too long So three years went past, and I enough cash To make my own record label and put on blast The album was independent, it was just for the I sold a one copies in my first fuckin' week Then went on to sell fifty, put the cash in my All the companies bite me, but I chose Def Jam And the main reason that I made it and I love the Was 'cause the block had its eye down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in these Glocks up, hats down, fiends in streets So please pay when you're coming around the block got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's in these streets Glocks up, down, fiends in these streets So please pay when you're coming around 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?