It ain't clean in these streets, mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in these So please pay when you're coming around 'Cause the block got it's down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay attention when you're coming 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
I'm still for the first damn time So grab a hold of your seats while I your mind And you back to when I dropped down from heaven And I came out my moms and had a mic as my fucking 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 wrote my rhyme Soon rapping one of my favorite pastimes Every where that I spitting and babbling Showing my ass, growing up started traveling one city to the next, Luda landed in the ATL Where the and the players dwell I made a tape, did shows and got And learning as my black ass got older No matter what I just kept at my I made mistakes but stayed sharper a Ginsu blade
It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in these Glocks up, hats down, fiends in these 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, mean in these streets Glocks up, down, fiends in these streets So please pay when you're coming around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
Age fourteen, my talent show a beast outta I would of won but disqualified for jumping off But I ain't care, cause game has started to open it's arms When I was at Banneker High School pulling alarms So I could get a crowd around me, make a for my block told me "keep flowing," they ain't want me to stop Was back when Big Nose was my human beat box skip school, hit open campus and watch out for street cops Now I'm known around the town as that nigga raps From the hills that high to them G roll traps And I was still making demo's, the craft And some said I wouldn't make it, would giggle and laugh So I picked up a couple by Donald Goins the business of this shit, how to flip a few coins Before the age of eighteen, I was to make it My bank account read Disturbing The Peace,
It ain't clean in streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, down, fiends in these streets 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, mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in these So please pay attention you're coming around 'Cause the got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
Age eighteen, I'm strugglin', just to But got a gig for change at 97.5 Now I'm on the radio, increasing their numbers Still Ludacris but alias was 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 was hearing my songs But did shit and they 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 copies in my first fuckin' week Then went on to sell fifty, put the cash in my All the record companies me, but I chose Def Jam And the main that I made it and I love the A-town Was 'cause the block had its eye down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in streets, it's mean in these streets up, hats down, fiends in these streets So please pay attention when coming around the block got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
It ain't in these streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, fiends in streets So please pay when you're coming around 'Cause the block got it's eyebrows down, ya me?