It ain't in these streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay attention when you're around 'Cause the got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in these 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?
I'm back for the first damn time So grab a hold of your seats while I open mind And take you back to when I dropped down from And I came out my moms and had a mic as my fucking When I was three I was just a G But if you looked in my eyes you'd see the of a real MC And at the age of nine I wrote my first Soon rapping became one of my favorite Every where I went spitting and babbling Showing my ass, growing up then traveling one city to the next, Luda landed in the ATL Where the and the players dwell I a tape, did shows and got exposure And kept as my black ass got older No what I just kept at my trade I made mistakes but stayed sharper a Ginsu blade
It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in these 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?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's in these streets up, hats down, fiends in these streets So please pay attention when you're coming 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
Age fourteen, my talent a beast outta cage I would of won but for jumping off stage But I ain't care, cause this game has started to open arms When I was at Banneker High School pulling alarms So I could get a crowd me, make a name for my block People told me "keep flowing," ain't want me to stop Was back when Big Nose was my human beat box We'd school, hit open campus and watch out for street cops Now I'm known around the town as nigga that raps From the hills that made high to them G traps And I was making demo's, perfecting the craft And said I wouldn't make it, they would giggle and laugh So I picked up a books by Donald Goins the business of this shit, how to flip a few coins Before the age of eighteen, I was destined to it My account read Disturbing The Peace, incorporated
It ain't in these streets, it's mean in these 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 clean in these streets, it's mean in these streets up, hats down, fiends in these streets So please pay attention you're coming around 'Cause the got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
Age eighteen, I'm strugglin', to survive But got a gig workin' for at 97.5 Now I'm rapping on the radio, increasing numbers Still Ludacris but alias was Cris Luva Late I'm in they studio and using they tools Me and Puma smoking weed and all of their rules And I was krunk, all the big wigs was hearing my But nobody did shit and was taking too long So three years went past, and I enough cash To make my own label and put myself on blast The was independent, it was just for the streets I a one thousand copies in my first fuckin' week went on to sell 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 block had its eye down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in streets So pay attention when you're coming around the block got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
It clean 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?