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 block got it's eyebrows down, ya me?
It ain't clean in these streets, mean in these streets up, hats down, fiends in these streets So please pay when you're coming around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
I'm still back for the first damn So grab a hold of your seats while I your mind And take you to when I dropped down from heaven And I came out my moms and had a mic as my fucking 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 my first rhyme rapping became one of my favorite pastimes Every where I went spitting and babbling Showing my ass, growing up then started From one city to the next, landed in the ATL Where the pimps and the players I made a tape, did shows and got And learning as my black ass got older No matter what I just kept at my I mistakes but stayed sharper then a Ginsu blade
It clean 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 block got it's down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's in these streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in these So please pay attention you're coming around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
Age fourteen, my talent a beast outta cage I would of won but disqualified for off stage But I ain't care, cause this game has started to it's 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," they want me to stop Was back Big Nose John was my human beat box We'd skip school, hit open campus and watch out for cops Now I'm known around the town as that that raps From the hills that made high to them G traps And I was still making demo's, the craft And some said I wouldn't it, they would giggle and laugh So I picked up a couple by Donald Goins Bout the business of this shit, how to a few coins the age of eighteen, I was destined to make it My bank account Disturbing The Peace, incorporated
It ain't in these 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 it's eyebrows down, ya me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in these Glocks up, hats down, fiends in these So pay attention when you're coming around 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
Age eighteen, I'm strugglin', just to 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 I'm in they 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 did shit and they was taking too long So three years went past, and I enough cash To make my own label and put myself on blast The album was independent, it was just for the I a one thousand copies in my first fuckin' week went on to sell fifty, put the cash in my hand All the companies 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, mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, 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 these Glocks up, hats down, fiends in streets So please pay attention when you're around 'Cause the block got it's eyebrows down, ya me?