From a small ass little swimmin in a fallopian tube To a on my soil, a stand up type a dude I was brought up in the crack game dealin and pushin that Arguing with my folkers cause we loved eachother so Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block tuff Strikin and them Novas and them Chevrolet stepside trucks Me and my Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Black Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine Street Posted up thumbtacks, talking on faulty big backs Motorola, A1 yola, bag fulla Tic Tacs In the mean time, in between time, in my spare time writin 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 for real Moons ago, way before I had a career I got my nickname on the turf for drinking beer And never letting the older cats up in my hood fear Funkin my own soil, listen here Jealous we had all the broads and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, sharper than a porcupine spine gimme nothing, I'ma work for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot ones through 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 from the spot all the dealers dealt Trials and tribul-i-zations, me and my Tryin to get this off the ground with high ass expectations a little time and patience, a little faith in God To a long story short, look at me now sahob I'm doing it chubby like the checker, chunky like the A de- a decade and a and still in the loop In case you suckers didn't know, I told you once I ain't rapping too fast, see just listening too slow I paved the way for the grind The industry they mimick me, but wanna gimme mine