From a small ass tadpole swimmin in a fallopian tube To a fixture on my soil, a stand up a dude I was brought up in the crack dealin and pushin that stuff Arguing with my folkers cause we loved so much Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, the block real tuff Strikin and scootin them and them Chevrolet stepside trucks Me and my Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Black Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and from the Magazine Street camp 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 think you know, but you really don't no idea Listen to discography of E40, talk for real Moons ago, way before I even had a I got my nickname on the turf for hecka beer And letting the older cats up in my hood pump fear Funkin with my own soil, listen Jealous we had all the broads and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, sharper than a porcupine spine gimme nothing, I'ma work 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 loaf of bread, a stick of butter and milk the corner from the spot where all the dealers dealt Trials and tribul-i-zations, me and my Tryin to get music off the ground with high ass expectations Took a little time and patience, a faith in God To a long story short, look at me now sahob I'm doing it chubby the checker, chunky like the soup A de- a and a half and still in the loop In you suckers didn't know, I told you once before I ain't rapping too fast, see y'all listening too slow I paved the way for the grind The industry they me, but don't wanna gimme mine