From a small ass little tadpole swimmin in a fallopian To a fixture on my soil, a up type a dude I was brought up in the crack game dealin and that stuff Arguing with my folkers we loved eachother so much and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them and them Chevrolet stepside trucks Me and my brother Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine Street camp Posted up like thumbtacks, 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 you know, but you really don't have no idea Listen to discography of E40, real for real Moons ago, way I even had a career I got my nickname on the turf for drinking beer And never the older cats up in my hood pump fear with my own soil, listen here Jealous cause we had all the and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game sharper 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 stick of and some milk the corner from the spot where all the dealers dealt Trials and tribul-i-zations, me and my to get this music off the ground with high ass expectations Took a time and patience, a little faith in God To make a long short, look at me now sahob I'm doing it chubby like the checker, like the soup A de- a decade and a half and still in the 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 industry they mimick me, but don't gimme mine