From a small ass little tadpole swimmin in a tube To a fixture on my soil, a stand up a dude I was brought up in the game dealin and pushin that stuff with my folkers cause we loved eachother so much Ditchin and the rollers, grippin the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and them Chevrolet trucks Me and my Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Black Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine camp Posted up thumbtacks, talking on faulty big backs Motorola, A1 yola, glad bag Tic Tacs In the mean time, in time, in my spare time writin raps In the yard, in the driveway, on the concrete shootin craps
You think you know, but you really don't have no Listen to discography of E40, real talk for Moons ago, way before I even had a I got my nickname on the turf for hecka beer And never the older cats up in my hood pump fear Funkin my own soil, listen here Jealous cause we had all the broads and all the Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game sharper than a porcupine Don't gimme nothing, work for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot ones echo the ghetto, funkin all the time I thank the Lord for giving me the gift to spit this
A loaf of bread, a of butter and some milk Around the corner the spot where all the dealers dealt and tribul-i-zations, me and my peopl-i-zations Tryin to get this music off the ground with ass expectations a little time and patience, a little faith in God To make a long story short, look at me now I'm doing it chubby like the checker, like the soup A de- a decade and a and still in the loop In case you suckers didn't know, I you once before I ain't rapping too fast, see y'all just too slow I the way for the independent grind The they mimick me, but don't wanna gimme mine