From a small ass little tadpole swimmin in a fallopian To a on my soil, a stand up type a dude I was brought up in the crack game dealin and that stuff Arguing with my folkers cause we loved eachother so Ditchin and dodgin the rollers, grippin the real tuff Strikin and scootin them Novas and them Chevrolet stepside Me and my brother Dennel, Kevin, Dalon, and Ray, Billy, and Ivory and them from the Magazine Street camp Posted up like thumbtacks, talking on faulty big Motorola, A1 yola, glad bag fulla Tic In the mean time, in between time, in my spare time writin In the yard, in the driveway, on the concrete shootin craps
You think you know, but you don't have no idea Listen to discography of E40, real talk for ago, way before I even had a career I got my nickname on the for drinking hecka beer And never letting the older up in my hood pump 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 than a spine gimme nothing, I'ma work for mine, try and grind, grit and grind Hot ones echo through the ghetto, all the time I thank the Lord for me the gift to spit this rhyme
A loaf of bread, a stick of butter and milk Around the corner from the spot where all the dealers Trials and tribul-i-zations, me and my Tryin to get this off the ground with high ass expectations Took a little 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, like 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 y'all just listening too I paved the way for the independent The they mimick me, but don't wanna gimme mine