It ain't clean in these streets, it's mean in these Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay attention when you're around 'Cause the block got it's 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 you're coming around 'Cause the got it's eyebrows down, ya heard me?
I'm still back for the first damn 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 I was three I was just a little G But if you in my eyes you'd see the future of a real MC And at the age of nine I wrote my first rapping became one of my favorite pastimes Every where that I went spitting and Showing my ass, growing up then started From one city to the next, Luda in the ATL Where the pimps and the players I a tape, did shows and got exposure And learning as my black ass got older No matter what I just kept at my I made mistakes but stayed then a Ginsu blade
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 eyebrows down, ya me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay when you're coming around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
Age fourteen, my talent a beast outta cage I would of won but for jumping off stage But I care, cause this game has started to open it's arms I was at Banneker High School pulling fire alarms So I could get a crowd around me, a name for my block People told me "keep flowing," they ain't want me to Was back when Big Nose John was my beat box We'd skip school, hit open campus and watch out for cops Now I'm around the town as that nigga that raps From the hills made high to them G roll traps And I was still making demo's, the craft And some said I wouldn't make it, they would and laugh So I picked up a couple books by Goins Bout the business of this shit, how to a few coins Before the age of eighteen, I was to make it My bank read Disturbing The Peace, incorporated
It clean in these streets, it's mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay attention when you're around 'Cause the block got it's eyebrows down, ya me?
It ain't clean in these streets, mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So pay attention when you're coming around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
Age eighteen, I'm strugglin', to survive But got a gig workin' for at 97.5 Now I'm rapping on the radio, increasing numbers Still Ludacris but alias was Luva Luva Late nights I'm in they studio and they tools Me and Puma smoking weed and all of their rules And I was krunk, all the big wigs was my songs But nobody did shit and was taking too long So years went past, and I saved enough cash To make my own label and put myself on blast The album was independent, it was for the streets I sold a one thousand in my first fuckin' week Then went on to fifty, put the cash in my hand All the record bite me, but I chose Def Jam And the reason 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 these streets, mean in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay when you're coming around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?
It ain't clean in these streets, it's in these streets Glocks up, hats down, in these streets So please pay attention when you're around 'Cause the block got eyebrows down, ya heard me?