From a small ass little tadpole swimmin in a tube To a fixture on my soil, a stand up type a I was brought up in the crack game dealin and pushin stuff Arguing with my folkers cause we eachother so much and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block real tuff Strikin and scootin Novas and them Chevrolet stepside trucks Me and my brother Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine camp Posted up like thumbtacks, talking on big backs Motorola, A1 yola, glad bag fulla Tic In the time, in between time, in my spare time writin raps In the front yard, in the driveway, on the concrete craps
You think you know, but you really don't have no Listen to discography of E40, real talk for ago, way before I even had a career I got my on the turf for drinking hecka beer And never letting the older cats up in my hood fear Funkin with my own soil, here Jealous cause we had all the and all the gear Up the I'm tryin to climb, game sharper than a porcupine spine Don't nothing, I'ma work for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot echo through the ghetto, funkin all the time I thank the Lord for giving me the gift to spit rhyme
A loaf of bread, a of butter and some milk Around the corner from the where all the dealers dealt Trials and tribul-i-zations, me and my Tryin to get this music off the ground high 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, chunky like the A de- a decade and a half and in the loop In you suckers didn't know, I told you once before I ain't rapping too fast, see just listening too slow I the way for the independent grind The industry they me, but don't wanna gimme mine