From a small ass tadpole swimmin in a fallopian tube To a fixture on my soil, a up type a dude I was brought up in the crack game and pushin that stuff Arguing my folkers cause we loved eachother so much Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and them stepside trucks Me and my brother Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Street camp Posted up like thumbtacks, on faulty big backs Motorola, A1 yola, glad bag fulla Tic In the mean time, in between time, in my spare time raps In the front yard, in the driveway, on the concrete craps
You think you know, but you really have no idea to discography of E40, real talk for real Moons ago, way before I had a career I got my nickname on the turf for drinking beer And never letting the older up in my hood pump fear Funkin my own soil, listen here cause we had all the broads and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game sharper a porcupine spine Don't gimme nothing, I'ma for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot ones echo through the ghetto, funkin all the I thank the Lord for giving me the gift to spit rhyme
A of bread, a stick of butter and some milk Around the corner the spot where 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 chubby like the checker, chunky the soup A de- a decade and a half and in the loop In case you didn't know, I told you once before I ain't rapping too fast, see just listening too slow I the way for the independent grind The industry they me, but don't wanna gimme mine