It ain't clean in these streets, it's in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay when you're coming around 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in streets So please pay attention you're coming around the block got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
I'm still back for the first time So grab a hold of your while I open your mind And take you back to when I 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 in my eyes you'd see the future of a real MC And at the age of nine I wrote my rhyme Soon rapping became one of my favorite Every that I went spitting and babbling Showing my ass, up then started traveling From one city to the next, Luda 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 matter what I just at my trade I mistakes but stayed sharper then a Ginsu blade
It ain't clean in streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in streets So pay attention when you're 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, down, fiends in these streets So pay attention when you're coming around 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
Age fourteen, my talent show a beast cage I would of won but for jumping off stage But I ain't care, this game has started to open it's arms When I was at Banneker High School fire alarms So I could get a crowd around me, a name for my block told me "keep flowing," they ain't want me to stop Was back when Big Nose John was my beat box We'd skip school, hit open campus and watch out for street Now I'm known the town as that nigga that raps From the hills that high to them G roll traps And I was still making demo's, perfecting the And some said I wouldn't make it, would giggle and laugh So I picked up a couple by Donald Goins Bout the business of this shit, how to flip a few Before the age of eighteen, I was to make it My bank account read The Peace, incorporated
It ain't clean in these streets, mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in streets So please pay when you're coming around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in streets So please pay attention when you're coming 'Cause the block got it's 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 was Cris Luva Luva Late nights I'm in studio and using 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 was taking too long So years went past, and I saved enough cash To my own record 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 Then went on to sell fifty, put the in my hand All the record companies bite me, but I 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 attention when you're around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
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 coming 'Cause the got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?