From a ass little tadpole swimmin in a fallopian tube To a fixture on my soil, a stand up type a I was up in the crack game dealin and pushin that stuff Arguing with my folkers we loved eachother so much and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and them Chevrolet trucks Me and my Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Black Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine Street camp Posted up like thumbtacks, talking on big backs Motorola, A1 yola, bag fulla Tic Tacs In the mean time, in time, in my spare time writin raps In the front yard, in the driveway, on the concrete craps
You think you know, but you really don't 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 hecka And never letting the older cats up in my pump fear Funkin my own soil, listen here Jealous cause we had all the broads and all the Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game sharper than a spine Don't gimme nothing, work for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot echo through the ghetto, funkin all the time I thank the Lord for giving me the gift to spit rhyme
A loaf of bread, a stick of butter and milk Around the corner from the where all the dealers dealt and tribul-i-zations, me and my peopl-i-zations Tryin to get music off the ground with high ass expectations Took a time and patience, a little faith in God To make a long story short, look at me now I'm doing it chubby like the checker, chunky the soup A de- a decade and a half and in the loop In case you suckers didn't know, I told you before I ain't rapping too fast, see y'all just listening too I paved the way for the independent The industry they mimick me, but wanna gimme mine