From a small ass little tadpole swimmin in a tube To a fixture on my soil, a up type a dude I was brought up in the game dealin and pushin that stuff Arguing my folkers cause we loved eachother so much Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, grippin the block tuff and scootin them Novas and them Chevrolet stepside trucks Me and my brother Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Little Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine Street Posted up thumbtacks, talking 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 shootin craps
You think you know, but you really have no idea Listen to discography of E40, real talk for Moons ago, way before I even had a I got my on the turf for drinking hecka beer And never letting the older cats up in my hood fear Funkin my own soil, listen here Jealous cause we had all the and all the gear Up the ladder I'm tryin to climb, game sharper a porcupine spine gimme nothing, I'ma work for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot echo through the ghetto, funkin all the time I thank the Lord for me the gift to spit this rhyme
A loaf of bread, a stick of butter and some Around the corner from the where all the dealers dealt and tribul-i-zations, me and my peopl-i-zations Tryin to get this music off the ground with ass expectations Took a little and patience, a little faith in God To make a long short, look at me now sahob I'm doing it chubby like the checker, like 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 listening too slow I the way for the independent grind The industry they mimick me, but don't gimme mine