From a small ass little tadpole swimmin in a tube To a on my soil, a stand up type a dude I was up in the crack game dealin and pushin that stuff Arguing with my folkers cause we loved so much and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and Chevrolet stepside trucks Me and my Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Black Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine Street Posted up like thumbtacks, on faulty big backs Motorola, A1 yola, bag fulla Tic Tacs In the time, in between 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 before I even had a I got my nickname on the turf for drinking hecka And never letting the cats up in my hood pump fear Funkin with my own soil, listen cause we had all the broads and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game sharper than a porcupine Don't gimme nothing, I'ma for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot ones echo through the ghetto, all the time I thank the Lord for giving me the gift to spit rhyme
A loaf of bread, a stick of and some milk Around the corner from the spot all the dealers dealt Trials and tribul-i-zations, me and my Tryin to get this music off the ground high ass expectations Took a little time and patience, a little in God To a long story short, look at me now sahob I'm doing it like the checker, chunky like the soup A de- a decade and a half and in the loop In case you suckers didn't know, I you once before I ain't rapping too fast, see y'all just listening too I the way for the independent grind The industry they mimick me, but don't wanna mine