Say, is the realist shit I ever wrote or I said Wake up with it everyday and it with me to bed my heart and hanging over my head 'Bout the realest these Texas streets ever bred
C L Butler known as Chad or Pimp C The closest homeboy I ever had Now when we first met, we wasn't on the page From pettiness that got cleared up with age
Two boys who was ready to mash Put P A on the map and maybe make a cash Jumped down with Big Tyme, put down a few Everybody co-signed saying that we do no wrong
Then hit the streets a big ass bang Them ass rhymes with that country ass twang Dropped, "Tell Me Good" took off and went live Shit, next thing you know we was to Jive
Dropped, "Too to Swallow" "A Pocket Full of Stones" Put the remix on "Menace" shit we had it on Got, in the streets and played on the air But the homey putting us out, playing too fair
Had to ourself, bring in a new team But sometimes the other side ain't always what it We dropped "Super Tight" a album full of flows But we got caught up with the drugs and the hoes
We didn't what was happening on the real And new management was cutting room deals different money and concealing the price He had us doing all the work but was keeping the biggest
Took a while to catch on, to what was doing But by the we did, all the paperwork was in ruins Nigga kept all the so we couldn't file taxes The next thing you know, IRS hitting us axes
you owe seven figures, Bun you owe six Better get your paper together, get shit fixed Remixed the management team and tried it out the GM, almost got put on the shelf
Fuck it, dropped "Ridin' Dirty" instant classic in the Reclaimed the southern title, shut everybody's Got some clout in the game, boys calling us the But meanwhile me and Pimp is still haters
The old manager and say he fina' sue And put a padlock on the we trying to do Put a call out to the Prince, this nigga hating We got heat for the streets, and we can't keep the waiting
He a call to [Incomprehensible] and folks, telling the man You gotta cut UGK some slack Young Pimp got the plan, Bun got the Rap-A-Lot had our back and we waiting on Jive
We got the big bosses on the same So me and young went hit 'em from center stage Next thing you we got this call from the N.Y. It's Jay-Z saying y'all niggaz fly
He doing "Volume 3" and got a track Timb And wondered could some trill niggaz it with him big Bun was all for it, but Pimp wasn't sure But "Big Pimpin" hit 'em
Number one song on every station you on MTV and BET we getting our on Grammy nominated can't believe that we it And we got a call from Jive that us all faded
And it stated, that due to the of the track We here at Jive records, like to piggy back Get another beat from Timb, then get a verse Jay Let Hype shoot the video and be on the way
it sounded okay, but me I had to ask If we don't do Big Pimpin 2, would you put us on blast A song like that take a nigga to the top But my fan base, might think a nigga flop
They got mad and put on hold For damn near a year the buzz got cold So we fuck 'em and went back to the basics Trying to find ways to get the fuck up out the
We put "Dirty Money" and it was aces But that's around the that Pimp caught two cases He got probation, said, "Fuck you hoes" We finish the album, got to do a couple shows
And he violated, one month before we dropped And shit just got put on hold or stopped Now 30 done, we back to the nitty-gritty Album got released, big showdown in City
Niggaz with masks on, and all black It's 2000 and 1, bitch we was all that Strongest on the block, could budge And then he violated, now we right back the judge
They calling him a nuisance, put my dog a fence It was 28th, he ain't been home since Threw a nigga through a loop and me in the crosses Standing cold, CEO, now I'm the boss
Had the devil on my back, got to drinking and Had to make a choice, get back to rapping or So I walked into my bedroom, got down on my Put my hands together and I Lord please
Let me get past bridge over water that's trouble And get back up on my on the double He said son don't 'cause it's not really hard as it seem And I can turn nightmares back into dreams
You just got to stay true to and succeed Then push from the devil and get closer to me And every that night man I promise I been on it Giving killer flow to anybody who want it Pimp the pen never before, I'm breaking 'em G
Not to I got the world screaming free Pimp C So soon as you make and they open the doors You ain't gotta worry about nothing, the is yours Ain't no mo' struggles my and no mo' stripe I kept it because to me it's UGK for life