From a ass little tadpole swimmin in a fallopian tube To a fixture on my soil, a stand up type a I was brought up in the game dealin and pushin that stuff with my folkers cause we loved eachother so much Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block real Strikin and scootin them Novas and Chevrolet stepside trucks Me and my Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Black Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and from the Magazine Street camp Posted up like thumbtacks, talking on faulty big Motorola, A1 yola, bag fulla Tic Tacs In the mean time, in between time, in my time writin raps In the front yard, in the driveway, on the concrete craps
You you know, but you really don't have no idea Listen to discography of E40, talk for real Moons ago, way I even had a career I got my nickname on the for drinking hecka beer And never letting the older up in my hood pump fear Funkin with my own soil, listen 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 echo through the ghetto, funkin all the time I thank the Lord for giving me the gift to this rhyme
A loaf of bread, a stick of butter and some Around the corner from the spot where all the dealers Trials and tribul-i-zations, me and my Tryin to get this music off the with high ass expectations Took a little time and patience, a little in God To make a long story short, look at me now I'm doing it chubby the checker, chunky like the soup 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 y'all listening too slow I the way for the independent grind The industry they me, but don't wanna gimme mine