They say it in the East where the apple was But out West we be throwing apples up They say them Fruit Town niggas gon' tonight They say Tree Top niggas gon' ride tonight They say them Grape Street gon' ride tonight They say them Bounty Hunter niggas ride tonight They say them 6-0 gon' ride tonight They say them Cedar niggas gon' ride tonight Them 1-9-0 niggas ride tonight They say them Timberland niggas gon' tonight They say them Campanella niggas ride tonight Who ride tonight, who gon' die tonight Started with a and a dream Started with a dollar and a
We did it for the West, motherfucker, Kanye Niggas get out on [?] Got three thousand stacks, I ain't talking 'bout I put it on head, I ain't talking no toupee See I stayed the same, ain't go weird like Squeeze on his trigger like ain't no more (You ain't gon' do shit) Bitch, of I is You want this money, you have to drive the course I did I got that weight foundry, talking the Porsche out here You in the nosebleeds, come down to where the is How a nigga with a rag end up in Soho Bag, any bitch with a solo swag You think you in that four do' Jag? Nah In Tom Fords a MK bag? nah Give you a bird's eye of the streets Nigga, welcome to Compton, you in Carson next week Ab-Soul!
Started with a dollar and a and a pistol On the corner rag hangin', slangin' I said you let me see credentials And when I pull this gun out you how this go with a dollar and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) Started a dollar and a dream!
I was fathered by the Pardon my The Curtiss magnet managed without the metal with him How the I did it? I let God ad lib it I put on Leetwood, I ain't lying one sentence Bitch, I started with a and a dream We went from helping old with their groceries at Alpha Beta For a couple quarters to a hustling something major We had to up sooner or later, but I'm so Del Amo, my mama still stay off Lee Carson across my belly, I you lost already Roccett my big brother, let the door crack Game took me on my first tour, now where we at In the studio getting paid to reflect on Documenting facts Not to this the Documentary 2 too You do the in ballerina shoes Enough with the clever raps, it's important than that I put my city on the map, Yeah, I really put my on the map I mean, when the last time you heard on the track, nigga? Let alone when they calling out stomping grounds on the I'll Yeah, what I thought, I'm the best, nigga This the new West, nigga, respect It's Top Dawg, all I'm is the red hat But don't what pocket I had left, my handkerchief I'm guilty by affiliation, in many gangsta But let me something, a paradox if you may I threw all my fresh Supreme Taylors today And then I got a call from Chuck Taylor, I'm The game ain't changed, we still changing the Soul!
Started with a dollar and a and a pistol On the rag hangin', slangin' crystal I you gangbanging let me see credentials And when I pull this gun out you know how go Started with a and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) with a dollar and a dream!
My first was a set up I was the nigga Pac was talking to When he "keep your head up" Cause he knew what I would be after his demise Jayceon had to pitch them pies, better life flipping fries I'm the one the Crips Move the Yay or kiss the sky, for dreams that 50 died by Mary Blige Hopped up in that enterprise, had to stop a Went from underdog to watching Top Dawg and Kendrick Now tell me can I testify, pull over to rest for 5 On a block, no on the Wraith left these kids mesmerized ask me how I did it, how I got it Say I'm king you brolic I put them weights start practicing lyrical exercise Tell me who the to die, probably who the next in line They got me babbling ghost cause I'm the illest one That's word to Pac, Pun, Biggie, why I as my city It's wise to run a train, you fuck with me since I saved my coast, it's been born again If I ain't then who the king of California then? Who out-rap me? Now about if the same nigga you bout to say can run up and out-strap me, yeah Out-trap me, yeah, me I think about it, exactly matter-of-factly I'm down playing that actually Call me Game I ain't one still I get like an athlete Do the after the math, Doc two in the bag up to expectations, Dre took me first in the draft Now who the fuck what survives so look alive when them Impalas in the cut
Started a dollar and a dream and a pistol On the rag hangin', slangin' crystal I said you let me see credentials And when I pull this gun out you how this go with a dollar and a dream! (Look at me now, at me now) Started with a and a dream!