From a small ass little tadpole in a fallopian tube To a fixture on my soil, a stand up type a I was up in the crack game dealin and pushin that stuff Arguing with my cause we loved eachother so much Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, the block real tuff Strikin and scootin 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, glad bag Tic Tacs In the mean time, in 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 have no idea Listen to discography of E40, real talk for Moons ago, way I even had a career I got my nickname on the for drinking hecka beer And never letting the cats up in my hood pump fear Funkin with my own soil, here Jealous cause we had all the and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, sharper than a porcupine spine Don't gimme nothing, I'ma work for mine, try and grind, and grind Hot ones echo the ghetto, funkin all the time I thank the Lord for giving me the to spit this rhyme
A loaf of bread, a stick of butter and 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 high ass expectations Took a 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 and a half and still in the loop In case you didn't know, I told you once before I ain't rapping too fast, see y'all just too slow I paved the way for the independent The industry they mimick me, but wanna gimme mine