Say, this is the realist I ever wrote or I said Wake up with it everyday and take it me to bed my heart and hanging over my head 'Bout the realest nigga these Texas streets ever
C L Butler better known as or Pimp C The closest homeboy that I had Now when we first met, we on the same page From pettiness understandings that got up with age
Two young boys who was to mash Put P A on the map and maybe a little cash Jumped with Big Tyme, put down a few songs Everybody co-signed that we could do no wrong
hit the streets with a big ass bang Them gangsta ass with that country ass twang Dropped, "Tell Me Something Good" took off and live Shit, next you know we was signing to Jive
Dropped, "Too Hard to Swallow" "A Full of Stones" Put the on "Menace" shit we had it going on Got, in the streets and played on the air But the homey putting us out, playing too fair
Had to separate ourself, in a new team But sometimes the other ain't always what it seems We dropped "Super Tight" a album full of killer But we got caught up with the drugs and the hoes
We didn't realize what was happening on the And new management was cutting room deals Hiding different money and 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 time we did, all the paperwork was in Nigga kept all the receipts so we couldn't file The thing you know, IRS hitting us with axes
Pimp you owe figures, Bun you owe six Better get your paper together, get this fixed Remixed the management and tried it ourself out the GM, almost got put on the shelf
Fuck it, dropped "Ridin' Dirty" instant in the South Reclaimed the southern title, everybody's mouth Got some clout in the game, calling us the greatest But meanwhile me and Pimp is ducking haters
The old manager calling and say he sue And put a padlock on the everything we to do Put a call out to the Prince, this still hating We got heat for the streets, and we keep the people waiting
He made a call to [Incomprehensible] and folks, the man You cut UGK some slack understand Young Pimp got the plan, Bun got the had our back and we just waiting on Jive
We got the big bosses on the same So me and young Pimp hit 'em from center stage thing you know we got this call from the N.Y. It's Jay-Z y'all niggaz getting fly
He doing "Volume 3" and got a track from And could some trill niggaz rock it with him big Bun was all for it, but Pimp wasn't sure But "Big Pimpin" hit 'em
Number one on every station you turn on MTV and BET we our burn on Grammy nominated can't that we made it And we got a call from that left us all faded
And it stated, that due to the success of the We here at Jive records, would like to piggy Get another beat from Timb, then get a verse Jay Let Hype shoot the and we'll be on the way
Shit it okay, but me I had to ask If we don't do Big Pimpin 2, you still put us on blast A song that might take a nigga to the top But my true fan base, might think a nigga
They got mad and put niggaz on For near a year till the buzz got cold So we fuck 'em and went back to the basics to find ways to get the fuck up out the matrix
We put "Dirty Money" together and it was But that's around the time that Pimp caught two He got probation, said, "Fuck you hoes" We finish the album, got ready to do a shows
And he violated, one month before we dropped And shit just got put on or fucking stopped Now 30 days done, we back to the got released, big showdown in Chocolate City
Niggaz masks on, vests and all black It's Christmas 2000 and 1, we was all that Strongest on the block, nobody budge And he violated, now we right back before the judge
calling him a nuisance, put my dog behind a fence It was January 28th, he ain't been home Threw a nigga through a and caught me in the crosses cold, CEO, now I'm the fucking boss
Had the on my back, got to drinking and drugging Had to make a choice, get back to rapping or So I into my bedroom, got down on my knees Put my hands together and I prayed please
Let me get past this bridge over that's trouble And get back up on my on the double He said son don't worry 'cause it's not really hard as it And I can turn your nightmares into dreams
You just got to stay to yourself and succeed Then push away the devil and get closer to me And every since that night man I I been on it that killer flow to anybody who want it Pimp the pen like never before, I'm 'em G
Not to mention I got the screaming free Pimp C So soon as you make and they open the doors You ain't gotta worry nothing, the world is yours Ain't no mo' struggles my and no mo' stripe I it real because to me it's UGK for life