It ain't in these streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in these So please pay attention when you're coming the block got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's in these streets Glocks up, down, fiends in these streets So please pay when you're coming around the block got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
I'm still back for the first damn So grab a hold of your seats while I open mind And take you back to when I dropped down from And I came out my moms and had a mic as my weapon When I was three I was a little G But if you looked in my eyes see the future of a real MC And at the age of nine I my first rhyme Soon rapping one of my favorite pastimes Every where I went spitting and babbling Showing my ass, growing up then traveling From one to the next, Luda landed in the ATL Where the pimps and the dwell I made a tape, did shows and got And kept learning as my black ass got No matter I just kept at my trade I made mistakes but stayed sharper a Ginsu blade
It ain't clean in streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay attention when coming around 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in streets Glocks up, down, fiends in these streets So please pay attention you're coming around the block got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
Age fourteen, my talent show a beast outta I would of won but for jumping off stage But I ain't care, cause this has started to open it's arms When I was at Banneker High School pulling fire So I could get a crowd me, make a name for my block People told me "keep flowing," they ain't me to stop Was when Big Nose John was my human beat box We'd skip school, hit campus and watch out for street cops Now I'm known around the town as that nigga that From the hills that made high to G roll traps And I was making demo's, perfecting the craft And some said I wouldn't make it, they would giggle and So I up a couple books by Donald Goins Bout the business of this shit, how to a few coins Before the age of eighteen, I was destined to it My account read Disturbing The Peace, incorporated
It ain't clean in these streets, mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So pay attention when you're coming around 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay when you're coming around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
Age eighteen, I'm strugglin', to survive But got a gig workin' for at 97.5 Now I'm rapping on the radio, increasing numbers Still but alias was Cris Luva Luva Late nights I'm in they studio and using they Me and Puma smoking and breaking all of their rules And I was krunk, all the big wigs was hearing my But nobody did shit and was taking too long So three years went past, and I saved cash To make my own label and put myself on blast The was independent, it was just for the streets I sold a one thousand copies in my first fuckin' Then on to sell fifty, put the cash in my hand All the record bite me, but I chose Def Jam And the main reason that I made it and I love the Was 'cause the block had its eye down, ya heard me?
It clean in these streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, down, fiends in these streets So please pay attention when you're around 'Cause the got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, mean in these streets up, hats down, fiends in these streets So pay attention when you're coming around the block got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?