It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in these So please pay attention when coming around 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in these So please pay attention when you're coming 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
I'm still back for the damn time So grab a hold of your while I open your mind And take you back to when I dropped down from And I came out my moms and had a mic as my weapon When I was three I was just a G But if you looked in my eyes see the future of a real MC And at the age of nine I my first rhyme Soon rapping one of my favorite pastimes Every where that I spitting and babbling Showing my ass, growing up then traveling From one to the next, Luda landed in the ATL Where the pimps and the dwell I a tape, did shows and got exposure And kept learning as my ass got older No matter what I just kept at my I made mistakes but stayed sharper then a blade
It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in these So please pay attention when you're around 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay attention when you're around 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
Age fourteen, my talent show a outta cage I would of won but disqualified for jumping off But I ain't care, this game has started to open it's arms When I was at Banneker School pulling fire alarms So I could get a crowd me, make a name for my block told me "keep flowing," they ain't want me to stop Was back when Big John was my human beat box skip school, hit open campus and watch out for street cops Now I'm known around the town as that nigga raps From the hills that made to them G roll traps And I was making demo's, perfecting the craft And some said I wouldn't make it, would giggle and laugh So I up a couple books by Donald Goins Bout the business of this shit, how to a few coins Before the age of eighteen, I was destined to it My bank account read The Peace, incorporated
It clean in these streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, down, fiends in these streets So please pay attention when you're coming 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So pay attention when 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, their numbers Still but alias was Cris Luva Luva Late nights I'm in they studio and they tools Me and Puma weed and breaking all of their rules And I was krunk, all the big was hearing my songs But nobody did shit and they was taking too So three years went past, and I enough cash To make my own record label and put myself on The was independent, it was just for the streets I sold a one thousand in my first fuckin' week Then went on to fifty, put the cash in my hand All the record bite me, but I chose Def Jam And the main reason I made it and I love the A-town Was 'cause the had its eye brows down, ya heard me?
It ain't in these streets, it's mean in these streets up, hats down, fiends in these streets So please pay attention when you're coming 'Cause the got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, down, fiends in these streets So please pay when you're coming around the block got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?